Expandable storage is vastly slower than storage attached directly to the motherboard

    Does it all need to be lightning fast? I keep anything important on the 64gb of built-in storage. However, I also bought a quality 64gb SD card (which cost a good bit less than what Apple charges you for an upgrade) to store photos, videos, etc. on and it's more than satisfactory.

Less ports (headphone jack) means easier to waterproof and less points of failure.

    If Samsung can make it work then why can't Apple? Honestly, in the years that I've been using cell phones I have never had an issue with water damage. Maybe I've just been lucky so far, I don't know, but it just isn't a big deal to me.     I've also never had a 3.5mm port go bad on me. I've seen it happen to people, sure, but it's hardly a common problem.

An adapter and headphones that support the port both come with the phone, by the way.

    Not anymore. I have a set of over ear headphones that I prefer to the earpods, but they use the headphone jack. Guess I have to spend more money (on a $1,000+ phone) to use the headphones that I already own.

    I get it, the industry is moving away from these things wether I like it or not. My current phone doesn't have a headphone jack and it hasn't been the end of the world. It all still annoys me though.     I hate how you're now forced to buy more expensive Bluetooth, USB-C, or lightning headphones that typically have some sort of problem one way or another. How you're forced to pay stupid mark-ups for upgraded storage capacity. How if your battery starts going bad you're forced to either buy a new phone or shell out to send the old one in for a battery replacement.