Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
Four opinions, going off of this article and partly in response to Gruber&#x27;s[0]:<p>1. There was a <i>functional</i> reason that CDs and floppies went out of style: low capacity and the Internet.  What’s the functional reason to get rid of analog headphones? It’s not quality – analog headphones have excellent sound quality, and 99% of people won’t be able to tell the difference with ‘digital’ sound, right?<p>2. So what happens if I want to charge my phone (e.g. from an external battery) and listen to headphones at the same time? Do I have to use some sort of ... dongle? That’s going to get silly.<p>3. Wireless headphones are ideal, but the price-to-performance ratio still sucks. Maybe if in the future we all have excellent wireless headphones, it might be a good idea to remove the headphone jack and provide a legacy wired output through the Lightning port, but we&#x27;re not there yet.<p>4. Why do this in an era of declining iPhone sales growth?<p>Admittedly, analog headphone jacks <i>will</i> go away at some point, but I hope it&#x27;s not before we have an elegant solution to these problems – like wireless headphones, perhaps.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;headphone_jacks_are_the_new_floppy_drives" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;2016&#x2F;06&#x2F;headphone_jacks_are_the_n...</a>