Of course I understand the headphone jack occupies valuable space, but they definitely removed it early before it was actually necessary from an engineering point of view. Why? Sales of AirPods - which worked out well. I own AirPods, they're great. I've owned iPhone 7 through XS, and yes, sometimes I'm annoyed by the lack of a headphone jack (or being able to both charge and use the jack with the supplied adapter).
I love that you're actually buying Apple's marketing. But hey, Apple does push the industry and now you can look back and see that it's the way of the future. If we're discussing why Apple cut the headphone jack early instead of when it actually became an engineering problem, you could see how this was about sales and money. Samsung proved you could keep the headphone jack for a bit longer if you wanted to.
That's not true. Just because you think you're right, doesn't mean I can't think I'm right or comment my theory without immediately providing an essay along with it. You didn't provide me with real arguments at first either. I've got a few for you now, now that you've stated your theory.
Don't get me wrong, I love the company and the mission and vision, but Apple is mostly about turning a great profit in hardware sales, just a fact.
The argument that 'free' Lightning adapters are included is weak, it's a clumsy way of connecting your 'old' headphones (which now do seem rather 'old'), it gets lost, it can't charge your phone at the same time, it's annoying. For some, it may just be an extra nudge to buy AirPods. They provided you with a weak solution to their artificially-made problem and already ditched it with iPhone XS.
Macs and iPads are
only 20% of Apple hardware sales and I'm betting iPhone are used more as well, especially as a music listening device (on-the-go usage is also a big part of wireless convenience and fits iPhone better as well). If you're going to force wireless headphones on people, you start with iPhone. They'd be screwing a lot of professionals over too, removing the jack from Macs.
Well, I'm here to tell you it's not that simple. I'm not saying I don't believe Bluetooth is great (of course it is), I'm just saying it was also a scheme to sell more AirPods.
Exactly.
I can't find out what he had to remove in the article. Can you quote it for me?
I've answered your question in the reply above.