I'm looking forward to getting rid of the headphone jack. I'm looking forward to getting a MacBook Pro with the MacBook low-travel keyboard. I'd even be fine with a MacBook Pro with a single USB-C port!
One thing Apple gets is that you don't need to constrain your design to appease small minorities of users. I bet 99.9% of people only ever plug in the stock earbuds or a pair of Beats they bought at the Apple Store. So why should Apple waste logic board space on a headphone jack?
Have you never been on an airplane? Bose on virtually every head, because their noise cancelling is the best (and protected by patent). Look at all the work Bose and Beats put in to fighting each other for endorsement and "official headphones of..." deals.
This is about giving Beats a leg up on Bose, or at least stealing revenue in licensing or dongles.
I have no problem with that. If those Bose users really value their Bose headphones so much, then they won't buy a new iPhone that doesn't work with them.
Apple only gets away with this behavior because countless sheep happily pay them for it.
I'm sure there's a log somewhere on the Internet of a message board where people called Apple customers "sheep" when they got rid of the 3.5" floppy drive.
One thing Apple gets is that you don't need to constrain your design to appease small minorities of users. I bet 99.9% of people only ever plug in the stock earbuds or a pair of Beats they bought at the Apple Store. So why should Apple waste logic board space on a headphone jack?