This article covers that there is going to be an increase in cost for the consumer as we're conditioned on the reality of Apple offloading the DAC to the headphone companies.
The article also talks about how, but doing this Apple opens the door for more cost to own an apple by buying accessories to continue to use your existing headphones.
This article doesn't go into DRM when there is no digital to analog conversion. The killing of the headphone jack seems to open the door for the phone to decide whether its going to play the music returning to the original ipod problem of whether it was bought with Itunes or not.
The article also talks about how, but doing this Apple opens the door for more cost to own an apple by buying accessories to continue to use your existing headphones.
This article doesn't go into DRM when there is no digital to analog conversion. The killing of the headphone jack seems to open the door for the phone to decide whether its going to play the music returning to the original ipod problem of whether it was bought with Itunes or not.