Well, there was a time when phones didn't have headphone jacks, but could play music and would often ship with proprietary shitty earphones, and everyone had th

Well, there was a time when phones didn't have headphone jacks, but could play music and would often ship with proprietary shitty earphones, and everyone had their standard (same as for chargers). And I'm pretty sure people just used to use mp3 players more rather than buying adapters. But somehow everything went the standardization way, so why on earth would this (alleged) Apple's move be considered progress, I have no idea. Also don't really see why 3.5mm jack "needs to be replaced". MicroUSB is worse imo.