So the creator pondered for 2 generation. I will make the phones water resistant by getting rid of this big fat 16mm x 3.5mm diameter gaping hole in our device and make the humans us this already available thin, small connecter to get their music. And since we are removing the humans ability to insert this long mini phallic looking device in our phones, we can make our batteries bigger!
Period end of story.
Totally off topic! Why on Earth is it so hard to keep this discussion on topic? Again, if you want to talk about how you like this change or not and why, there are other discussions! This was meant to be about the technicalities of lightning vs non-lightning headphones.
By the way, not only are you off topic, you are also blatantly wrong, because you forget that many of Apple's competitors have managed to make their phones waterproof and with bigger batteries without removing the audio jack.
I haven't been able to find anything that could even remotely suggest why lightning headphones could be any better. I'd be very, very surprised if lightning headphones come to the market which are better than Shure, Westone, etc. Those who don't know these brands should not even dare say anything on a discussion about the quality of headphones. And, to those who talk about hi-res 24 bit audio, I say I'd be very very surprised to see lightning headphones better than these shure with their own DAC:
KSE1500 Electrostatic Earphone System | Shure Americas
In other words, I had always thought it was a marketing move which had nothing to do with sound quality, and I haven't found the slightest piece of information which could even remotely suggest the opposite.