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All of my points still stand.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is waterproof and with a user-replaceable battery.
Does that mean that Samsung's hardware designers are better than the ones working for Apple?
The Samsung Galaxy S7 is waterproof, and has a headphone jack. When Apple removed the headphone jack, they cited waterproofing as their chief issue. So yeah.
Yeah, but they didn't mean that jack can't be made waterproof. They meant they needed the space.
Just eyeballing it, the headphone jack in the 6S probably takes up about 10% of the bezel space in the entire phone. (I’m talking about the entire jack assembly—the big whiteish piece in the bottom left—not just the shaft itself.) The only larger bezel components are the speaker, the rear camera, and possibly the earpiece.
Think of real world places with very valuable real estate. In Manhattan, a not-so-profitable gas station occupying a parcel of very expensive land will often be bulldozed to make way for a tall building full of lucrative offices or condos. The inside of an iPhone is valuable real estate, and these bezel areas are especially scarce. Parts that aren’t providing enough value are likely to get bulldozed.
Waterproofing takes a lot of space—especially when it demands a new Taptic Engine. Here’s a similar image of the bottom bezel area of the iPhone 7. You might notice that most of the components are completely different:
The Taptic Engine is much larger and is partially behind the new, non-mechanical Home button. The Home button change is probably both for waterproofing (it’s hard to seal all of those seams) and for reliability (broken Home buttons are another common repair—or at least people think they are); an impulse from the Taptic Engine is now used to make the non-mechanical button “click” the way the old one did.
But the new Taptic Engine protrudes into the space previously taken up by the headphone jack; I estimate it covers about a quarter of the jack’s depth, depending on the purpose of the three prongs just below the Taptic Engine’s main body. And it has to be there, in the bottom left of the phone; it must be near the Home button, and the speaker’s on the right side.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/21/why-did-apple-remove-the-headphone-jack-from-the-iphone-7/#553d0e073058
I realize the above is a reposted answer from Quora, so here:
When the headphone jack was removed, Apple realized it was easier to install the new Taptic Engine for the pressure-sensitive Home button, implement a bigger battery, and reach an IP7 water resistance rating, so the elimination of the headphone jack became essential for all of the other features in the iPhone 7.
Source: https://www.macrumors.com/2016/09/07/apple-explains-headphone-jack-removal/
Also, found this interesting read: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/inside-iphone-7-why-apple-killed-the-headphone-jack#.ak22qxVQA