“I’m glad the headphone jacks are going away. They are always clogging up with dust and dirt.”
Because you cant keep yours clean?
I have multiple audio devices and a huge headphone collection from high end down to dollar store earbuds, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard someone getting dirt clogged in their audio jack that much where you rather not have an audio jack.
“I hate the dangling cable that gets snagged on something and yanks the plugs out of my ears.”
Oh? That isnt a reason to take out the audio jack. I stuff the cords of mine down my shirt, and into the phone, when I’m in my woodshop for obvious safety reasons. I never thought “gee wouldn’t it be great if I couldn’t plug these in anything anymore
“Wireless is the way to go. “
Noooooooo it is not. I have both clip-on Bluetooth adapters and full earphones. Aside from the battery going dead, obnoxiously going around the corner to only lose the connection or get garbled audio, and finding that day when that unit’s internal batteries officially did and cannot be recharged, They also become easily lost or stolen, putting you out of a lot of money.
They simply dont come close to replacing actual wired earphones. That is why the best made ones are NOT wireless. You cannot reproduce wired sound over wireless. And for the casual user, Bluetooth devices are expensive and unsightly on a good day.
“Who knows what that will bring?”
A bunch of compromises and excuses.
Pray tell, what is radio?
That's why Apple included the 3.5mm female jack to Lightning adaptor. You aren't paying attention. There are legitimate reasons to eliminate the internal analog jack. You sound exactly like the Luddites who argued loudly and vociferously when Apple dropped the floppy disk drive in favor of the CD drive. . . then argued the same about dropping the optical drive in favor of the USB flash drives. Technology moves onward.
In your first post, you claimed that Apple had removed the audio jack as a "cash grab" but that is ridiculous. Apple has replaced a 10¢ part and a 10¢ jack on the earbuds with a $10 jack with additional internal electronics to convert digital electronic signals to an analog audio sound AND are including those new earbuds with that jack at no additional cost. . . and then they are ALSO including a Lightning to 3.5mm analog converter, with the ancillary processing for that conversion, free of charge in the box with the new iPhones. How, pray tell, is that a "cash grab?"
Why does an Android user care?
Reminiscent of, "You can't reproduce vinyl audio digitally..."
Weak shot, foot-dragger!