> How many times will it take you forgetting your dongle to just pony up and buy the apple approved headphones?

Perhaps I missed something in the announcement, but won't any Bluetooth headphones work with iPhone 7?

> Long-term, we are giving up a universal and open protocol that all devices work with for a proprietary one.

Does Bluetooth count as a proprietary protocol? It's not exclusive to Apple, but I don't think it's a totally open standard either.