[jyunderwood]

My issue with Lightning as the new audio connector is that it's not going to be a "Standard."

Yes, headphone makers are making lightning cable headphones, but I doubt any device company outside of Apple will use it as audio out. Not only phone and computer makers but makers of AV receivers, amps, mixing boards, etc.

If the 3.5mm jack is the new floppy drive and ADB port, USB will be the standard that kills it, like it killed the others.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10273/intel-proposes-to-use-us...

[digi_owl]

Last time i looked at a USB-C analog audio out suggestion it wanted to overload the basic USB pins with yet another task (thus interfering with charging and data transfer) while the extension pins went ignored.