> you now can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time, unless you have some weird Y-splitter-type cable Rather than have a splitter cable, cou

> you now can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time, unless you have some weird Y-splitter-type cable Rather than have a splitter cable, couldn't you have an additional USB-C port on the headphones which could be used to power the smartphone indirectly? If that's not possible I reckon some manufacturers will start putting small batteries in USB-C headphones.