Or, hear me out... I could buy phones which use the universal standard we have had for audio connections for 40 years. I have neither the skills nor the inclina

Or, hear me out... I could buy phones which use the universal standard we have had for audio connections for 40 years. I have neither the skills nor the inclination to replace my car stereo, and I can only guess you've never used an FM transmitter if you are seriously suggesting that as an option. They suck, full stop. Meanwhile, I stick to phones which aren't designed by people so short-sighted as to think that everyone has Bluetooth available. I genuinely have no idea how you can call Bluetooth a universal standard with a straight face. It's not even close. A 3.5mm isn't truly universal (little or nothing is), but it's as close as you can get. Ditching the latter in favor of the former is absolutely asinine. Seriously man, 10 years ago is not that long in real world terms. It's a long time in the tech industry, but the rest of the world simply does not move on at that pace. As an industry, we need to pull our heads from our asses and realize that most people aren't techies living in a major city for whom anything invented more than 5 years ago is old, and anything invented more than 10 years ago is positively ancient. That simply is not how the world works.