You&#x27;re making the big assumption these devices will always support analog audio output over USB-C.  There&#x27;s nothing preventing that from being disabled, and the digital output can definitely be forced to DRM only.  We&#x27;re already seeing this with things like the Lightning connectors on iPhones vs the old Dock connector that had analog and digital signals unimpeded, now with Lightning it requires an MFi certified device to decode the digital signal and no analog signal is provided at all.