No no, don't change the goalposts. The thing that I'm calling the parent on, is the prediction that I will like having no headphone ports. I have no idea what's going to happen with US smartphones sales in 2026, so I won't make a bet on that. I do know that I WILL NOT like not having a headphone port.

Ah, but that's not what their bet was... the bet was that you will happily buy a smartphone without said headphone port -- which I expect will happen because you won't be able to buy one any other way now that it's been demonstrated that it can be eliminated. You might not be happy about that aspect, but still be happy with your new phone as a whole, as you adapt to the lack of any option on that front.

But I won't be happy with my new phone as a whole. You're saying I will, but I won't. You don't know what's inside my mind.

Did you feel the same about floppy drives?

Do you feel anything that's new is an improvement, like present storage technology is over floppy drives? Idiot.

You don't consider wireless noise-cancelling headphones which don't need to be charged to be an improvement to hooking up a century-old cable?

> It's an unfair bet as you have (almost) complete control of the outcome.

That's the other guy's fault, though, because he (foolishly) offered a bet where the taker has "(almost) complete control of the outcome":

>>> I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack, whether that be an Android or iPhone.

Might as well call him on it.

That wasn't really the spirit of the offered bet. All this pedantry is taking the fun out of it.

Now I actually do believe the OP will "happily" buy a phone without a headphone port. But not if he has a financial incentive to change his behavior.

> Now I actually do believe the OP will "happily" buy a phone without a headphone port.

Honestly, the OP might resign himself to it, but I'll doubt he'll be happy about it. It's not like headphones are currently connected with obsolete digital interfaces (e.g. RS232). Headphones are, by their very nature, analog, and making their connection digital just makes integration harder.

The headphone industry will look a lot different in ten years.

The wireless standard used by headphones (possibly not BT) will have enough bandwidth to no longer be the bottleneck in wireless audio quality. And more importantly they'll never need to be "charged".

Who's going to miss cables?