In the age of mass production, you get what they make. Custom items of the same price & quality as those mass produced are often/usually prohibitively expensive. If they stop making what you want, you stop being able to get it. So what's Parent going to do when his current phone dies?

> So what's Parent going to do when his current phone dies?

Buy virtually any other phone, if it's that important to them?

> Your current phone still has a headphone jack.

My current phone is rapidly disintegrating. If I had the time, I could argue that the current method of production and rapid obsolescence did, in fact, take both my current phone away, and my ability to easily transition to the new model being offered without having to rethink how I listen to music.

Completely false. There is no adapter out there that can do simultaneous audio and data. My Apogee JAM sits gathering dust as a result.