PC World has an article on why USB-C has not been a viable alternative for the 3.5mm audio jack. Problems with USB-C include variable handling of digital to audio conversion, incompatible SOCs inside the cable, and non-standard analog-passthrough. In short, the cables which contain computers themselves are not standardized in behavior and the author's conclusion is that mobile devices must have 3.5mm jacks until the USB-C cable technology gets sorted out enough that they become usable.
(Score: 2) by bryan on Wednesday September 12 2018, @07:03PM
That quoted line was talking about MicroUSB, not the round audio jack. Some people (Europe) tried very hard to make MicroUSB the one-and-only connector allowed - I'm glad they failed (the USB3 variants [wikipedia.org] of MicroUSB were especially atrocious.)