[shaggy]

I wish everyone would stop calling it an analog audio port. Yes it's a 1/8th port, but they haven't been purely analog for quite some time.

[spdustin]

But the 1/8" TRS/TRRS jack (headphone / headphone-with-mic jack) is analog when it's used for analog output (headphones/line-out) or input (microphone/line-in). The DAC is on the device side, not the accessory side.

Perhaps you're referring to the SP/DIF "hiding" inside the 1/8 jack of many Macs?

[lobster_johnson]

But it is an analog port on the iPhone/iPad devices, which this is about. They don't have optical/digital audio like the MacBook's TRS-TOSLINK port.