I think they should have started selling cables with a lightning adapter on one end and a small jack for pluggable buds on the other. Good, sturdy cables with

I think they should have started selling cables with a lightning adapter on one end and a small jack for pluggable buds on the other. Good, sturdy cables with proper amp, microphone and remote control built-in. Headphone producers would provide the analog speaker-part only. Pros for Apple: . sell more hardware . establish their lightning port . better the good-speaker-but-crappy-cable-situation that plagues the headphone market . stop wasting a cable on every new pair of iPhone buds . extend their hardware eco-system centimeter by centimeter