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The Moto Z looks like an awesome phone.

The lack of a headphone jack is a complete and utter deal-breaker. I'm not carrying a dongle around so I can use my headphones. (A quality dongle will need to have some size and heft; see the Schiit Fulla. It can't even run off of Micro USB power alone as it stands, though it does work with some phones with some work.)

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I think the point is that this is a step towards consumers purchasing headphones with a digital usb/lightning/whatever connector, not to carry around an adaptor.

I guess we'll see in time whether the idea takes off.

Since it doesn't actually solve any problem that any consumer actually has, I predict that it's going to go away in about 2021 and the 3.5mm jack will stick around. Personally I don't care about USB-C because it doesn't actually solve any problems for me. At least when we went to Micro-USB my device chargers became interchangeable and I didn't have to go home to charge my phone anymore.

I have USB-C on my laptop at work, and so far I'm pretty unimpressed with it. I'd much rather just have a second DisplayPort.

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