"Google's ecosystem" is Android, not just their overpriced pixel phones, so Google get hate in some quarters for losing the headphone socket but it's not an And

"Google's ecosystem" is Android, not just their overpriced pixel phones, so Google get hate in some quarters for losing the headphone socket but it's not an Android thing. You can pay a few hundred pounds for a perfectly good Android phone and run as-is or replace with a true open source alternative, with headphone sockets (so no need to turn your lossless files into a streamed lossy mess courtesy of Bluetooth). I pay £9 for 4 gigs of data. In no way is Apple anything like at parity with Android here. With Android you choose what you pay and what you get. I'm bored of phones and apps now, so I'm out of the "spend a grand every two years/£50+ a month for an average camera and the ability to choose to install about 15 of the 17 million apps out there" game but if that's your thing there's a phone for you. With a headphone socket.