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The proposal sends analog audio out on the auxiliary pins, so adapters will be passive and dirt cheap.
Presumably this also means it won't fix the issues of noise mentioned in the parent comment.
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Some type of chaining adaptor makes more sense.
And given that usb-to-3.5mm adapters already exist, I assume that if this happened, the appropriate adapter would appear on the market fairly quickly, so you could keep using your old headphones.
At the same time - sure, Intel should go ahead and implement this. But phones should just have both USB and 3.5" connectors.
If a phone only has one USB-type C connector on it, how will you both charge and listen to music with your headphones with it? Is there going to be two connectors, one at the top and one at the bottom?
A small USB type c hub, powered from the thing it's connected to. May be as small as a cable inter-connect 3 type c sockets, 1 for the phone, and one each for whatever you want to connect to. You could daisy chain these or have hubs that offer 1 in and 6 out, etc.
I hope that nobody get's the idea of encrypting the audio data for playback. I still can remember the problems of trying to play movies over HDMI which didn't work because some device didn't support the encrypted channel.
As Anandtech points out it gets HDCP, so I'm sure there's going to be some uptake for apps that require a protected path.
This seems like a terrible idea. I don't really have any complaints with my analog headphones. Why fix something which is not broke?
Great, so now you can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time.
If Apple does introduce a Lightning-only iPhone in the fall, I am increasingly convinced they'll include some whiz-bang EarPods to sell it as a feature. Any reason they can't miniaturize some ADC/DACs for nifty adaptation to ambient noise run on the phone?
Thanks, I'll pass.