[ctdonath]

Why include things that take up space, weight, and cost, things which most users won't use, when users seem to most want less space, weight, and cost?

Users have gone wireless on nearly everything else, and are about to buy more wireless headphones than wired. The dongle is just an interim fix until you switch other devices to matching wireless; we've done it many times before, and we'll do it again.

[throwaway2016b]

Users that want the thinnest phone possible so they can wrap it in a Fisher Price box.

Users that want cheaper phones so they can pump more money into the accessory ecosystem the functionality back.

You have fun charging 2 or 3 things every few hours and having horrible device interop or none at all with your headphones and other accessories. I'll keep my headphones.