I guess I can’t charge my phone and use headphones at the same time, but I really couldn’t before either considering the length of the charging cable.
But I guess you must always be charging your phone since the usbport is occupied?
I also have broken or lost over 3 adaptors now. This wasn’t broken and was pretty transparently done to increase the adoption rate of airpods IMO, so it is pretty frustrating. If I hadn’t had mind-blowing-ly bad experiences with samsung phones I would have jumped ship over this.
Thankfully I have a sensible phone, but what's the benefit to me in having a phone that can have sound output or charging but not both?
The only place this really makes sense is on a long haul flight when you want to make sure you have fully charged phone and listen to music while falling asleep.