[bluegene]

> Sure. Or you can use the included lightning-jack adapter and just use normal, un-DRM'd headphones.

What prevents Apple from obsoleting the adapter in the future and making analog jack incompatible with lightning jack?

[manicdee]

The desire to keep customers, perhaps?

[rdudek]

Competition. I bet you Apple wanted to sell that adapter as premium addon, but because of the angry folks talking about it for a while now due to rumors, they decided to include that adapter with each phone.

[otterley]

Well, if that happens (and it's unlikely), then it'll be time to express such concerns. But not now.

[CaptSpify]

Yeah, why should we assume that a company that has a history of making unnecessarily proprietary equipment would do so again in the future? that'd be absurd, right?