Two thoughts regarding the iPhone’s recessed jack plug:
I can understand needing higher-quality headphones, but why the hell would anyone want to use mic-less, remote-less headphones that aren’t designed for the iPhone?
Could it be that they did this for durability? The iPhone is a high-end device that may not have the same planned obsolescence that iPods do (they do instruct you that you’ll have to send them in to replace the battery in two years, don’t they? so they assume you’ll want to keep it longer than that), and recessing the jack output so that the headphone plug is firmly held in place by the iPhone’s bezel itself should avoid putting too much strain on the output’s solder points when the phone’s in your pants pocket with the headphones plugged in.
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