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> The purpose is to reduce manufacturing cost and complexity

This argument doesn’t hold water for me because successive generations of iPhones have only become more complex. The X family has a tiny Kinect in the display!

The theory about pushing people to wireless makes much more sense if you look 5 years down the road and see e.g. an Apple Watch and some kind of AR accessory (or even AirPods and Siri as the AR accessory...) as the primary mobile compute devices, which everyone and their brother assumes is what Apple is trending toward.