Macworld Welcome to our weekly Apple Breakfast column, which includes all the Apple news you missed last week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a Monday morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you want to give it a read during lunch or dinner hours too. A very good yearIt’s been a tough couple of years for Apple watchers, with dull iPhone and Apple Watch refreshes, uninspiring Mac launches, and little of note from the iPad and AirPods departments. The product pipeline slowed down, and the things coming out of it lost their spar…