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by qb45 3819 days ago
HDMI is not much bigger than mDP and doesn't add thickness over USB ports which already exist on those laptops. OTOH, it was more commonly supported by non-Apple monitors in that time and very easily adapted to the ubiquitous DVI-D (same protocol and cabling, different plug).

If Apple cared about interoperability and user convenience (no silly dongles, yay) they would have used that.

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Note that the MacBook Pro has had an HDMI port since 2012 (in addition to Thunderbolt/mDP).