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Luckily Apple don't have a monopoly on wireless headphones?

You can use some plain old bluetooth headsets like most people have been for years.

If you really dislike wireless for some reason, you can also get lighting earbuds (I think the iPhone 7 actually includes some).

Finally, if you like all these ideas so much, you can avoid purchasing the product you dislike. It's not like they're forcing this onto existing clients by disabling the existing 3.5mm jack.

Or use the included lightning -> 3.5 mm adapter.

>Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated

Well yeah, they sort of are. The future is wireless, there's really no denying that at this point.