This is what infuriates me about the whole cargo cult mentality of "design" Apple subscribes to. Its dishonest bait so low information consumers don't question

This is what infuriates me about the whole cargo cult mentality of "design" Apple subscribes to. Its dishonest bait so low information consumers don't question anti-consumer monetization moves. There's a lot of money in headphones and taking over the headphone market via airpods or the mfi chip sales required for iphone lightning to work with minijacks is a ripe market for Apple. Yet, we're being sold on a whole false narrative of "Oh there's no room, sorry." I think we're going to look back to the dawn of smartphones as being particularly anti-consumer, anti-privacy, and typified by corporate dishonesty. edit: I see the narrative is "but, but the iphone 8 will be too thin for it, trust me." Then there's no reason to do it now other than crass monetization at the cost of the consumer already invested in wired headphones and being forced to do a pricey upgrade. Not to mention, simply migrating to a thinner analog audio plug like the standard 2.5mm connector which is merely 2mm thick and can use a minijack to 2.5mm adapter can be gotten anywhere and cheaply. That would be a trivial change and allow Apple to make a very thing phone. Instead excepting a DAC on every headphone or having a DAC adapter is clearly a monetization scheme.