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The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.
- Winston Churchill
 
and let's not forget the recent riot at UC Berkeley because Milo's words hurt them fee fees

Right wing politics are called "right wing" because the right is right and the left is wrong!

Jeremy Clarkson is an entertainment show host, not an automobile expert... All manufacturers have problems one way or another. What you decide to buy is on you, and whether it being 'Made in Germany' makes a difference to you or not. Outsourcing of certain production elements is a cost-cutting measure and has nothing to do with quality.

Why? Because it holds validity? Yeah, I guess it's goofy then... The Germans make the best of everything. AMG mercedes and porsche say hello.

yeah and because they make good hp

Sennheiser for obvious reasons. German engineering and top notch quality.

Budget? 

From what I understand, the DT 1770 is a step up from the DT 770. 

Of course, if money is an issue, the DT 770 is now much cheaper with the release of the DT 1770.

More like Youtube Villains. Or weaklings. Or cry babies.

Not all change is good and you'd already get pushback from the audio companies. Analog is not wrong by nature, especially for something like audio.

Furthermore, it's complete and utter BS to have everything attached to one single port. Unless they focus on improving battery life to such a drastic extent that we get our phones working off of one charge for 3+ days, denying us the ability to use peripherals while charging would be a setback, not a feature.

Not all change is good and you'd already get pushback from the audio companies. Analog is not wrong by nature, especially for something like audio.

Furthermore, it's complete and utter BS to have everything attached to one single port. Unless they focus on improving battery life to such a drastic extent that we get our phones working off of one charge for 3+ days, denying us the ability to use peripherals while charging would be a setback, not a feature.

Agreed - in most cases, we simply lost the SD-Card slot, and got the same size of internal storage - mostly because Apple wants to sell you iCloud subscriptions.
You're increasing the cost of the headphones themselves, and the phone will not drop in cost in a comparable way. Remember, this will NOT get rid of the DAC already on the phone - unless we think phone makers will ditch the internal speakers? Yeah - not gonna happen - especially since phone makers have been making a push to make the internal speakers better and better on phones.
 
So all we're losing on the phone is a 3.5mm jack. Yet the headphones now has to have a DAC. I'm fairly sure a DAC costs more than a 3.5mm jack.
 
This will make headphones bigger, heavier, bulker, and cost more. This will also make the headphones consume more power, which will in turn affect the battery life of the phone (Remember, the phone still has it's internal DAC, so now there are 2 DAC's in the equation).
 
I for one will continue to buy phones with 3.5mm jacks on them for my foreseeable future purchases.

Adapter is the wrong way to approach the problem. If you lose it, you're SOL. 

So often I listen to music in my car. My car isn't new enough to have a Bluetooth module to support music, so I use the aux input. nearly every time I charge, and listen simultaneously (so my battery doesn't drain). I can no longer do this without some adapter? That sucks.

So let's be completely unbiased here.
 
Benefits:
Takes up less space in the phone/laptop/whatever. Consistency. One pair of headphones will sound the same no matter which phone you plug them into. No interference. It's digital so it either works perfectly, or not at all. Might enable extra functionality in the future (the only thing I can think of would be stereo mics but who knows).  
Drawbacks:
Breaks compatibility. You will need an adapter (which will need to be an active adapter, which will reduce quality) if you want to use your current headphones. Cost will increase since you now need a DAC/amp in each pair of headphones, plus the one inside your phone, instead of just having one in your phone. So cheap headphones/earbuds might be more expensive AND sound worse than they currently do. This also means there are more things that might break. Driver issues. Each pair of headphones will now need a driver to be installed, and that driver might not exist for certain platforms (Apple headphones no longer works on Android phones and vice versa). Drivers can also be buggy/outdated. Imagine buying a pair of 1000 dollar headphones back in 2005 and they worked great in Windows XP, but the manufacturer didn't make any drivers for Vista (maybe they went bankrupt) and above so now they they are just a 1000 dollar paperweight. Harder to plug in and position (going from circular to square). Possibility of DRM being introduced (again, Apple headphones only working on Apple devices, Samsung headphones only working on Samsung devices etc, or even things like certain songs only working with certain headphones, like a new Dr Dre album only working with Beats headphones for example). If your cable breaks slightly then you will not get any sound at all. The cable for my K702 broke fairly recently but I was managed to continue using them by holding the cable in a certain position with some tape. That would most likely not work with a digital connector. It takes up more space inside the peripheral. It will not be any issue for headphones, but for things like earbuds it might become a (small) problem. There are really small DACs which weigh next to nothing so it is not a big issue, but it is a drawback.  
Unknowns or other things to think about:
Which one is more durable? Which one uses more power? Headphones might share the connector you use for charging and file transfers (so you might not be able to listen to music and charge/transfer files at the same time). This is not inherently an issue of USB type C, but it is something I can see lots of phone manufacturers doing. It is less of an issue on desktops and laptops though. Saw someone mention Thunderbolt. We are not talking about Thunderbolt here, because the Thunderbolt controllers are enormous (10.7 x 10.7mm, so bigger than the 3.5mm headphone jack by itself), expensive and require active cables. Replacing 3.5mm headphone jacks with Thunderbolt makes even less sense than replacing them with USB-C.  
Did I miss anything? I don't think it makes sense going to USB-C for audio. The benefits are very, very small compared to the drawbacks.

Ultimately, everything is analog coming out of a speaker. Any speaker. We are analog-based creatures. Displays are also both analog and digital because of this very thing - they emit analog information to us which we perceive with our eyes which are analog sensors. To say that "no high end home theater/stereo system uses analog audio" is incorrect as it's ultimately analog. It simply converts it from digital to analog.

I think we should have made a standard that impliments two different jacks into one, like the USB/ESATA connectors on laptops.

Plain retarded idea.
You will need dac and amp in your phone for the speakers anyway, why fucking get another one on your earphone? Fucking morons. People who care about sound quality should not do their precise listening on fucking phones anyway. 
This is so bad to the environment, because of the manufacturing of extra dac, amp, adaptor and new pairs of headphone people forced to buy to fit their goddamn new phone. Think of all the silicon, copper, plastic and energy wasted because of these "tech genius" attempting to "make some change". 
Stupid motherfuckers.
Think of your headphones or phones getting old and worn, the good old 3.5 jack has good tolerance to wonky connection because it's fucking analog. But a digital one? one gentle shake and the connection is lost. You then need to unPlug and plug in again for the handshake. People who have used external dac on phones know what I mean. 
Oh wait, thats exactly their plan. They just want you to buy more new stuff. They sincerely hope your phone or headphone break every single fucking day so they can grab all of your money

Main reason: Selling lots of adapters.

Well, a pair of headphones is an inherently analog thing. I can't see why the analog nature of the 3.5mm jack is a problem. Simplicity is a virtue, not a weakness.

The Oukitel K10000 wants to disagree :p. All we need, is some sort of genius chinese manufacturer, that actually wants to invest heavily on this -.-, but all of them seem busy trying to make "high quality" build phones with mediatek components.... Cmon, not even OnePlus tries to make theyr phones battery enormous.