> "Studying Moore's Law and the history of technology, it's clear we're not going to stick around with something analogue for long," he says. The real world is

> "Studying Moore's Law and the history of technology, it's clear we're not going to stick around with something analogue for long," he says. The real world is still analogue, and as long as we have biological brains there will need to be a digital to analogue conversion somewhere to interface with it. Phone manufacturers might want to move that conversion out of their devices, which is understandable because analogue electronics is expensive and good quality even more so, and that change would make it someone else's responsibility. In the end if this does go through it might not be totally a bad thing if the new digital connector is also a standard (and provides power, I might add). That way it would be possible to get a good quality DAC and reuse it everywhere.