No, really, the headphone jack is more useful than you think

I agree that the headphone jack doesn't necessarily need to go right away, especially on larger phones, but I'm not one of the people who think it's the worst thing in the world to remove either. It does take up a lot of internal space because of the depth required. With how small the PCBs are on modern phones that actually matters.

That said, none of the points this article raises would matter if Apple would just stop insisting on being needlessly different and adopt USB-C like they should. Lightning was arguably slightly better than MicroUSB but USB-C does everything it does and more while also being standard instead of a pointless special snowflake.

I say keep the jack on devices where the space is available and use USB-C with alternate modes for everything else.

Removal of the headphone jack on the iphone is an idiot test. Idiots will buy apple products no matter how functional or not functional they are, simply because they're named iProduct.

Anyone with any sense will see this as a good opportunity to give Android a spin.