So ultimately you want headphones built into the device, rather than simply just retracting headphones. In the end, you'd have to cut the cable or lose the devi

So ultimately you want headphones built into the device, rather than simply just retracting headphones. In the end, you'd have to cut the cable or lose the device altogether to lose them. This is only a win-win for people who really love their iPod headphones and have never destroyed one somehow. I think that idea is less appealing if not outright repulsive to the people who don't want to use the iPod headphones ever (like me, with my half dozen unopened sets of Apple headphones in a box somewhere). Apple has no incentive to do this either - I'm sure they make a tidy profit from selling replacement iPod headphones and 3rd party headphones in their stores.