> Apple doesn’t give a shit about neckbeard hipsters who spent thousands of dollars on expensive audiophile gear that rely on 100-year-old technology to transmit audio signals.

Is that stance from a reductio ad absurdum contest? Like nobody ever use with great success an humble audio cable for non expensive audio stuff in the real world outside the silicon valley?

My modest proposal : if you really want to remove an more than often annoying 150-years old technology that we don't realize yet we don't really need it

... remove the Phone from the iPhone