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A comment on Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China. Parent comment
(the cost to ship a medium size box is about $10. $10,000 of iPhones easily fit in a medium size box. Shaving some of 0.1% is pretty irrelevant.)
And if they did it in service of "owning the headphones market", that's a really dickish reason.
Indeed it is. I and many others would agree. But capturing a market and "lock-in" are common, and often-lauded business practices.
(the cost to ship a medium size box is about $10. $10,000 of iPhones easily fit in a medium size box. Shaving some of 0.1% is pretty irrelevant.)
And if they did it in service of "owning the headphones market", that's a really dickish reason.