I would be ok with this as it would mean I can get noise cancelling headphones that are powered via the connection to the phone and don&#x27;t need their own power source.<p>Yes it will make the $3 headphones more expensive but considering I would never buy such headphones I don&#x27;t have a problem with that. Anyway there will no doubt be $2 USB-C to 3.5mm converters available for people who want to use old headphones.<p>The nice thing with 3.5mm though is it &quot;just works&quot;. I worry that with a complicated interface such as USB we will end up with incompatible headsets even worse than we do today with 3.5mm TRRS.