> They took out the headphone jack, like tech journalists rumored for years and years, and are now selling you a $9 dongle or forcing you to get Bluetooth earbuds, which are… bad, to anybody who cares about audio quality or battery life or actually use their phone to listen to music.
No, they didn't. You get a set of lightning earbuds with the phone, and you get the dongle for free. If your objective is to buy an iPhone and listen to things with it, you do not need to buy shit other than the iPhone.
And if your argument is quality and you know ANYTHING about it, then you already figured out that the dongle contains the same hardware that the phone did prior to turn the digital signal into analog audio, and that the headphones do more or less the same thing just packaged inside the buds instead of being in the phone.
As if any real audiophile would use the stock Apple headphones anyway.
I have a really hard time taking journalists seriously when they make a factual error in paragraph 1. Pressing on...