I would be willing to bet he's a 65 yr old cranky fart who wants to be respected for what he's done elsewhere automatically, and didn't like that we didn't immediately kowtow to his opinion.
I'd hope there will be the "thin one" with no headphone jack, and the other ones. But I've come full circle. I almost never use headphones with my iphone anymore. I use it in the car via a dock, and everywhere else I use the ipad or the computer.