There are a wide variety of phones available with and without headphone jacks. There's no reason the government needs to intervene. The ones without headphone jacks are, as far as I can tell, much more popular. I don't really consider it when selecting a phone, since I don't care one way or the other (I haven't used the jack in years, but it doesn't hurt me if the phone has it), but most of the phone I've owned recently haven't had one.
In these respects, to me, it feels similar to PS/2 ports, floppy drives, optical disk drives, USB-A ports, or any other number of previously-useful things that many computers no longer have. A bunch of people get upset when you remove any feature, no matter what, while the majority don't care very much, and after a short while it's completely normal to not have the legacy feature.
In these respects, to me, it feels similar to PS/2 ports, floppy drives, optical disk drives, USB-A ports, or any other number of previously-useful things that many computers no longer have. A bunch of people get upset when you remove any feature, no matter what, while the majority don't care very much, and after a short while it's completely normal to not have the legacy feature.