That's becoming increasingly more difficult on the Android side, with so many high-end vendors looking to remove the headphone jack too.

Hell, OnePlus ran a campaign eight months ago laughing about others removing the headphone jack, only to remove it six months later on the 6T.

I bought the OnePlus 6 because I wanted a good phone with a close-to-stock OS and a headphone jack. Nowadays, I think you'll struggle to get both, and I think that we're one manufacturer away (Samsung) away from the market joining Apple and Google in getting rid of the jack.

I'll support it for as long as I can, because I use the jack every single day, but I fear that in three years time the high-end market will have left us behind.

LG is keeping the minijack too for now, unlike Samsung, whose rumours indicate that are dropping it next year.

This comment is bound to age poorly ;)

Unless 3.5mm headphone jacks will be around in 50 years who knows.

They were already around 50 years ago:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphone-headphone-ja...

i mean, people buy turntables nowadays. new ones, not just vintage and antiques. Audio equipment tends to age veery slowly

That's not how it worked. Turntables became obsolete then they become popular years later because everything about them is inferior.

but also because people have old vinyl disks which they can revive. and people complained about the cold sound of CDs forever. it's not like tech, where you don't really see people crying over their burnt memory chips.

Especially for audio connectors, i don't think it is a coincidence that the 3.5mm jacks and its fatter brother have not changed since forever. people wanted to use it with their older stuff.