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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Read between the lines of the whole thing. This is solely to receive licencing fees from the various companies that will now develop third party connectors or audio hardware designed for this phone. Apple being Apple. What's new?
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Seeing as Apple are the third manufacturer to ditch the 3.5mm jack this year, I'd say it's more likely to be part of a general trend away from its use. The socket for the jack is a void inside the phone's casing that is a waste of space except when in use (and there are a lot of people who don't use their iPhone for playing music).
Plus, they're including a lightning-3.5mm adaptor in the box so they're hardly pushing people to buy wired headphones with a lightning connector are they.
This is part of a long running philosophy at Apple anyway. They ditched the 3.5" floppy drive and serial and parallel ports from their computers long before any other high street pc brand.