I think not... they are included in the cost of the device, nothing included with Apple's products or any other company's products is "free".First of all, if these are legit, it's what Apple is giving you for free.
Perhaps you are right, but I see literally, without exaggeration, dozens (possibly hundreds) of people a day charging their phone and listening to music at the same time, or Charging and using wired headphones and talking at the same time. Or charging and using the headphone port to plug into an Aux port of a device while charging, etc... So from my own point of view and personal experience I do not think I am outside of the average.I personally have never used headphones while charging my phone. So I suspect most people are somewhere between you and me.
As for the practical battery life the extra battery capacity may add, well that all depends on you and your habits. If you're a habitual games player, or otherwise heavy wireless user, then it doesn't matter if the battery life lasts 12 hours while only listening to music and talking on the phone (by the way, no iPhone lasts 12 hours of talk time now). So then you buy what suits your needs -- perhaps that's a battery pack, perhaps that's a pair of headphones with a pass through.
So we need to buy battery packs, adapters and extra headphones to maintain the same functionality we have now... not awesome. Not awesome for the environment, economics of peoples personal economies, not awesome for the aesthetics of the phone to have adapters and battery packs hanging off... All in the name of an extra 14%?
Yes I know the battery supposedly lasts 12 hour talk time...in specs... but I've yet to see it on a device hat wasn't new, even when shutting off Bluetooth, WiFi, dimming the screen.
The point is, right now the iPhone is great, Apple can enhance the battery life a lot of ways beyond ditching the headphone port. There's marginal (at best!) benefits to ditching the port... and many complications added by doing so. I have yet to see what is actually held back by keeping the port, and what is truly benefited by ditching it. 14% battery increase, but a much more cumbersome setup of adapters does not sound like a material or substantial benefit. But if Apple *Cough* Must *cough* remove the port then I hope they will also include convenient, effective ways to continue using the iPhone with the same benefits we presently have.
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