Your comment implies they are replacing the jack with wireless earbuds, but that's not what happened. They are doing two things: 1. Switching to a proprietary

Your comment implies they are replacing the jack with wireless earbuds, but that's not what happened. They are doing two things: 1. Switching to a proprietary connector for wired headphones. 2. Releasing improved wireless headphones as an optional add-on. So you still get "convenient and dependable" wired headphones supplied with the phone. And you get an adapter for using 3rd party wired headphones, so you are not "stuck with the crappy lightning headphones." Wired headphones, whether existing ones from 3rd parties or the upcoming ones from Apple, are unaffected. As for whether Apple is Really Wrong This Time in requiring an adapter for 3rd party wired headphones... Putting aside how utterly vindicated they've been every time they've done this in history... According to Apple this was to enable major iPhone 7 features like the improved camera.[1] Was that worth requiring an adapter for certain cases, cases which will probably diminish over time as more 3rd party headphones go wireless? I'd say it seems in the ballpark of the sorts of tradeoff decisions they've made in the past. [1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/inside-iphone-7-why-apple-killed-the-headphone-jack?utm_term=.iaPVBOVPv#.ov70pA0dD https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/inside-iphone-7-why-...