They cannot be serious. Replacing what works great with all kinds of cheap or expensive and easy to repair equipment with what? Another device on the Universal Serial Bus. I see the point of attaching storage devices, sound cards and anything else that is not simple and needs a controller and logic to USB, but audio output? I do sometimes use a USB headset because it has its own soundcard built-in, but I actually prefer a simple headset with a 3.5mm mic-in&#x2F;head-out connection. Why? Well, it works always, it doesn&#x27;t load another driver, and it doesn&#x27;t rely on the USB bus. USB is nice but occasionally hiccups and resets itself, which is not something you&#x27;ll see happen with your mic and headphones because they are not overcomplicated. To be totally honest, I&#x27;m also one of those who prefers keyboards attached via PS&#x2F;2 because I&#x27;ve had USB keyboards reset when I attached another USB device to the shared bus. That PS&#x2F;2 has real interrupts is an added bonus for something as crucial as keyboard input. With all that being said, as long as this happens in the phone and tablet space, I guess I can live with it, but having to carry around an adapter from USB to 3.5mm audio will be a PITA.<p>This is just another, let&#x27;s change it to make money with adapters and sell new implementations due to bugs in the old controllers and drivers, scheme.<p>Next year, USB power cords, and you&#x27;ll have to rewire your house.