You could even use an older iPhone if innovation frightens you in general Putting aside your unnecessarily snarky tone, it is not innovation to remove somethin

You could even use an older iPhone if innovation frightens you in general Putting aside your unnecessarily snarky tone, it is not innovation to remove something from a phone. It's just not. Get/use headphones with the new style of plug. What, with the proprietary Lightning connector that works with nothing else but an iPad or iPhone? (Not even a Mac! Oh, but there's another dongle for that...) What if I also have an Android USB-C device that needs another connector, and then since I'm interested in music I also have amps or other portable players that take the standard 3,5 mm plug? I now need buy three pairs of headphones instead of one that works with everything from the past forty years? Is this innovation or is it just marketing garbage to sell people more shit they don't need that will end up in landfills in three years? In lots of ways it's objectively better. In lots of ways it's objectively worse. Bluetooth audio is compressed and objectively worse than uncompressed audio over an analog cable. Wireless headphones require batteries, which means less flexibility and more mental overhead. The batteries age and are generally not easily replacable, which contributes to waste. We don't need to make more disposable electronics with lithium batteries that end up in landfills. Bluetooth introduces latency which makes it entirely unsuitable for musicians. Also, Bluetooth in 2018 is still janky as hell (susceptible to interference, forgets pairings, etc.) and not nearly as reliable as just plugging a cable into a thing and having it work always and forever. It also drains a non-trivial amount of battery. I usually have Bluetooth switched off because I never use it, and enjoy better battery life as a result.