And now I have a tiny adapter I have to keep track of that will get lost, bent, ...

And now I have a tiny adapter I have to keep track of that will get lost, bent, and need replaced, and probably damage the port and I have an extra long fulcrum sticking out into a tiny little shallow port that when pressed will either snap or snap the port internally from it's soldering, requiring a trip to the Apple store for repair.

This is just bad design/engineering based on Apple wanting to sell licensed headphone adapaters/headphones that only work with the iPhone or maybe Mac's in the future.