That's fine in spite of being inconsistent. Apple is more than just an iPhone company. If they actually believed 3.5mm jack is "antiquated" it would be dropped from the rest of the Apple lineup. It has not been. They have since engineered brand new stuff and specifically chosen to INCLUDE it.
So rather than completely mitigating anyone's hope that an SE upgrade would keep it, I'll leave that out there for those that hope they can buy a new iPhone WITH the most ubiquitous audio jack available. Not everyone wants to lug along adapters and/or multiple sets of headphones/buds to work with just Apple stuff AND everything else in the world beyond the bubble. Some consumers can actually "think different" rather than just towing the company line.
As to the authority you put in what Schiller says, I stand by what I posted. Schiller used to poke hard at phones with screens bigger than 3.5" and 4"... until Apple rolled out bigger-screen phones. Conceptually, if his word trumped his job duties, he should be ridiculing iPhones with screens bigger than 3.5" and then 4" screens.
And that's not taking a poke at him. That's his job. Marketing spin is a key tool of his specific job function. If that means up to flip-flopping on stuff he used to spin doing his job, that's what he does... because that's the function of the job: sell what we have to sell now, whatever that is.
If he really believes 3.5mm is antiquated, he should be ridiculing it in iPads and Macs. One particularly (newer) Mac is notorious for deprecating all but a single jack. And even IT built in a headphone jack too. Does Schiller find fault with 3.5mm there? Of course not! There's MBs to be sold. And that's his job (to sell WHATEVER Apple rolls out).
And by the way: iPhone 6s release date: September 9, 2015 iPhone SE release date March 31, 2016. So yes, a new iPhone model did release with a headphone jack AFTER the iPhone 6S. Apple chose to roll it out with a headphone jack rather than re-engineer it without one.
