Apple has long been famous for its bravery—or, in the words of Apple executive Phil Schiller, courage, which he famously used to describe Apple's decision to "move on and do something new that betters all of us" by removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7.
It was hardly Apple's first couragous act. It took courage to release the MacBook Air, a computer so thin it could house only two USB ports. It took courage to remove the iPhone's multifunctional home button. It took courage to start selling Earpods that only worked with the iPhone's proprietary lightning cable once the headphone jack was gone, and it took even more courage to sell some pricey new Bluetooth headphones at the same time. It took courage to release a MacBook with a keyboard so bad it clearly played second fiddle to making the design just a touch thinner (and cost the company $50 million in a class action lawsuit). It took courage to finally update the iPhone to USB-C—and then saddle it with USB 2.0 transfer speeds from, literally, the year 2000.
