Well, there was a time when phones didn&#x27;t have headphone jacks, but could play music and would often ship with proprietary shitty earphones, and everyone had their standard (same as for chargers). And I&#x27;m pretty sure people just used to use mp3 players more rather than buying adapters.<p>But somehow everything went the standardization way, so why on earth would this (alleged) Apple&#x27;s move be considered progress, I have no idea.<p>Also don&#x27;t really see why 3.5mm jack &quot;needs to be replaced&quot;. MicroUSB is worse imo.