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I think you guys are missing one of the options Apple may take in the future: A dongle. Put a proprietary jack on the phone, then make you buy an adapter dongle for $29.95. Or, buy Beats for $300 and the dongle will be included...
They won't be doing it on the iphone 6, but there's always v7 or 8 or 9...
True. Until headphone (and cable) manufacturers had developed 3.5mm plug bodies that were slim enough, you needed a dongle to use any headphones with the first iPhone's recessed headphone jack (not including, of course, the earbuds that came with it). At that time, though, Apple had the power of offering the first smartphone of its kind--there weren't any other choices for a smartphone like that then. (Still, though, I thought it took some chutzpah to release with that recessed jack as they did.)
I do think for a lot of people now--with all the good smartphone choices that are available--it would be a deal killer to require the use of a dongle to use a standard pair of headphones. I'm pretty strongly tied into the Mac/iOS ecosystem of devices (including supporting devices and accessories by other manufacturers), but even I would likely opt for a non-iPhone smartphone if it did not have a 3.5mm jack.