Phones without headphone jacks are phones with DRM for audio

Nilay Patel's magnificent rant about Apple's announcement that future phones won't have headphone jacks starts with the main event: "1. Digital audio means DRM audio." It's true: the existence of HDMI ports enabled the use of HDCP, and led to the growth of video services whose products refused to play at full resolution (or at all) through analog outputs, and also arbitrarily refused to talk to various monitors and screens if some secret algorithm decided that they'd be a risk.
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