Once again not correct. Yes they will give away cheap earphones, but you can get TW earbuds for £15 easily these days. Also there are plenty of wired earphones that cost hundreds and in a few cases thousands of pounds. It’s still taking away functionality and features when you remove it.

And to address the original apple argument of oh the headphone jack is old outdated tech( from the iPhone 7 announcement). Please go look up a chord Hugo 2 dac. And tell me what the output is. Why then does a over £1,000 dac/amp have a headphone jack.

It’s a poor argument from a company that wants to sell you a bunch of dongles and airpods. Which has unfortunately mostly worked.

And don’t even get me started on the 2016 macbooks which went down so poorly due to the oh you’re just poor argument not working that they went back and added more ports on the newer ones.

I’m not poor I just want to use my £200 wired earphones with my phone without needing a dongle that’s designed to break easier then a late 2012-2016 MacBook charger.