>Apple loves this proprietary stuff. Sony did it for years and
>got reamed for it. Apple will get away with it because it's an
>iPhone. Sad, really

I think they might have overstepped with their 'courage'; headphones are a big big business and people have invested much cash in em...they are fashion accessories as much as they are utilitarian and I dont think people are going to take kindly to a 20 dollar (is it more?) adapter or headphones that cost 200 bucks to replace the ones they bought last year for 100.


Considering it requires a good amount of charging for use pure wireless headphones aren't exactly a perfect replacement...i wouldnt be surprised if the feature gets put back with the rumored Iphone 8 in 2017 (since next year is a full ten years of iphone apparently there is another major form factor planned)