I remember how a set of people back in the day would praise that decision from a certain company and all copycats later as "courageous", "innovative" and so on.

I remember how a set of people back in the day would praise that decision from a certain company and all copycats later as "courageous", "innovative" and so on. "It'll give space for a better battery" may be the most deluded one if you looked at the competition and their offerings at the time, followed by "slimmer phones" (as if a good thing regardless after a certain threshold not limited by the 3.5 jack) and so on. Plenty waterproofed phones before 2015 too. In reality it's more about enforcing a vision and making bucks selling wireless sets, Airpods being annunced back to back with the removal of it. (and a lot of OEMs trying to do the same identical thing, such as Samsung and Google) Apple's 10 bucks USB-C DAC may be great for the price, but dongleism is one of the worst and most disgusting trends hardware has had in the past decades, "just use and carry around an adapter (two if you want to charge at the same time too) at all times with you lmao". I wouldn't even care, if it wasn't forced for the rest of us. Feels like such a weird thing to have to complain about like this, too, it's very divisive.