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We were doing perfectly fine 10 years ago and manufacturing has only gotten more advanced, the only real reason the 3.5mm port was removed is because Apple wanted to sell people their AirPods. That's literally it. The rest of the manufacturers soon followed suit when they realised how many people were buying AirPods.