I am happy that someone is writing about this.

Essential broke my heart when they launched without the headphone jack (okay, not really, but you they did eliminate me as a customer for this version -- maybe I won't need the headphone jack for their next release).

Survey from Nov last year: https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/life-without-the-headphone-ja...

It is a survey...so who knows how real it is, but 55.86% were negatively impacted Apple removing the headphone jack. While Apple customers don't have a choice, Android users do and we will vote with our wallets.