I cannot believe I scrolled through seven pages of comments on this and not a single person pointed out that Google *began* the idiotic trend to not have headphone jacks with the ADP1/G1, in other words, their FIRST Android device which shipped commercially, required a dongle to use headphones.
So, finally, Google is eating crow! Good that they can laugh at themselves at their own expense. It is long overdue.
I hope Apple realizes what an abysmal idea it was to drop headphone jacks on the iPhone. They have kept 3.5mm headphone jacks on the iPad, the M1 Apple Silicon MacBooks and MacMini and as far as I know, the only product which lost that fundamentally useful bit of kit, was the iPhone with the iPhone model 7.
Albeit, I also met the guy who went to great lengths to add back a headphone jack to an iPhone 7, e.g.
Some headphone jacks, such as in the PineBook Pro, even offer serial console support, which is pretty awesome! Albeit, most headphone jacks on Apple devices have also supported laser TOSLink/digital audio output, which is also, really awesome!
As many others pointed out, Apple´s BlueTooth implementation is not lossless. Albeit, I long since gave up on Apple being sane with regards to music and have opted for DAPs from the likes of Cayin and Astell & Kern which play back ALAC, FLACs, and a helluva lot more lossless audio codecs up to 32bit 384KHz lossless, many with balanced audio jack outputs, and some even have vacuum tubes too. Apple is no where near audiophile levels of gear, but at least the iPad is still serviceable.
It may be an unpopular opinion, but I think Apple was completely off their gourd ditching MagSafe connectors on their laptops too. USB-C is less reliable than Lightning connectors in my experience and do I ever have some bad Lightning connector experiences.