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Absolutely horrible idea at this time. Maybe several years from now, but not right now.  This would negatively impact the way I use my iPhone.  I have a Bose sound dock at my work desk.  I listen to my iPhone on it every day.  It plugs in via lightning, charges the phone and the music quality is outstanding.  There is no bluetooth option, this $500 product would be instantly obsolete.  I have an old stereo system in my garage I use when I'm doing woodworking projects.  I plug my iPhone into it via the lighting to 3.5mm dongle.  I would no longer be able to listen to music on this stereo. When I want to listen to music or watch content on my phone and want noise cancellation, I turn to my Bose QC35 which does not have bluetooth.  Again another expensive product I would no longer be able to use on my fancy new iPhone. And when I take long road trips (which I do quite often), I use the USB port in my car to plug in my phone.  This allows me to play music (at better quality than bluetooth), use Apple Maps the entire trip, and keep the phone charged at the same time.  

As an iPhone user since the 3GS, this would be the first time I would consider switching to another brand.  I loathe the idea. I love my iPhone.  Yes, another brand would force me to use the 3.5mm jack on my sound dock, so I would lose the charging advantage, but at least I could still play music on it.  All my other uses of the port would continue to work on a different phone.  

I would be OK with this if they would offer a discount on necessary accessories like a charging brick and/or lighting cable to customers who are buying a new phone and need those items.  Maybe 50% off at the time of purchasing their phone.  I think it's ridiculous to pay hundreds of dollars for a product that you can't charge without buying an accessory.  

Wow, what a price tag.  Looking forward to some reviews.  If the sound justifies the price then so be it, but half a grand for a pair of headphones better sound out of this world.

Unfortunately these scams work.  It seems so obvious to most that these are scams, but they wouldn't do them if they didn't pay off.  I've spent countless hours on YouTube watching videos of scam debunkers tracking calls and watching as people happily give total control of their computer to these scammers and log into their bank account.  A lot of them are based on the technique of claiming there is a refund waiting and asking them to enter the amount of the refund, say $1,000, but then the scammer overrides the amount to $10,000 and tells the victim they typed it in wrong.  They are even able to manipulate the victim's bank account web site to make it look like they really did get $10,000 deposited.  At that point they ask the victim to refund back the $9,000 overpayment at which they will invoke a real transaction and poof the $9,000 is transferred out of their account to the scammer.  At the last minute, the debunkers will severe the call and then call the victim and let them know what was going on.  Most of the time it's senior citizen.  Very sad.

The problem I have with this is blaming the likes of Apple who puts considerable amount of R&D into recycling and sustainably sourced raw materials.  Think about all the e-waste from failed products from other companies.  How about the millions of first gen Samsung Galaxy folds that never got purchased.  Or the Windows Duo?  Or the Razor flip.  What happens to all those perfectly new phones that just sit on shelves?  And all the wasted raw materials that went into producing these products.