[esotericsean]

It's extremely difficult to get noticed on the app store because it's so huge now. I think this was a necessary move.

Apple does harvest your data, but they don't sell it. You're not a product.

The headphone jack is an entirely different situation. It was a necessary move on Apple's part in order to push industry standards towards wireless. I'm sure in a few years, we're all going to laugh about all the wires and cables we used to have everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually Apple got rid of all ports on all their devices.

[imh]

Do any of the big ad companies sell your data? Google? Facebook? It's the same thing. I don't want them to need to learn everything about me. What they want to do with that info is secondary.

[brian-armstrong]

Wired headphones aren't going anywhere, Apple or no.

[jgalt212]

in the sense that Lightning did not kill USB, you are correct, sir.

[roryisok]

Android / iPhone are becoming completely incompatible at a hardware level. Lightning instead of USB. No headphones. No SD card. Next it'll be some proprietary SIM card standard. It's almost like their afraid someone is going to crack iOS to run on and Android handset the way macOS can run on a PC

[obtino]

> No SD card.

To be fair, the SD card has been abandoned by the Google Nexus line as well. It caused a lot more problems than solved. Now that storage is relatively cheap, more manufacturers are removing it.

[sdegutis]

But how is this different than selling your data? They're using your data to help developers make money from you, and they get a cut of that money.