You’re right. It was not arbitrarily, its carefully calculated greed. <- that is opinion, the rest is not.

Except that lightning ports are proprietary and not an open standard. Bluetooth isnt the answer, especially since battery life is a concern. I would have understood if they were usb-c. Lightning means they are tied to just that brand. do you remember the crap time when cell phones all needed dongles foe charging,…

“but so did cassette tapes.”

Apple fanboys and apologists make it sound as if Apple is doing us a favor by making us spend even more for no real benefit. They are doing it to make their users buy new headphones, for which they will reap great financial rewards. Most people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between an analog and digital…

for real, if apple was really wanting to look forward into the future why not USB type C? Which appears to be where most cell phones are going. Hell, you can’t even use the lightening headphones on anything besides the iphone.

Even accepting that premise (Which, for the record, I vehemently don’t)...

This is the stupidest article ever. The only point you made to actually get rid of the jack is to save space. But, it fit just fine on the last iphone of the same dimensions, and every other phone on the planet. Its not like they replaced it with a second lightning port, which would actually be useful to charge and…