The Verge 2016 tech report card: Apple

For Apple, the year 2016 may be best remembered as the year the headphone jack was stripped away from the iPhone, without any real apology, by one of the few organizations that has the power and gall to kill popular consumer tech standards and call it “courage.” It was a year of awkward product launches, and it seemed that every new gadget was also coupled with disappointment.But 2016 was also the year that gadgets weren’t necessarily the most important thing at Apple. The comp