>>285760926
Cool. This must be the first time I've seen someone even attempt this, let alone get it working. 
And to be fair, no one can really say if it was really planned obsolescence. It could have just been amateur hour contracts and licensing given it was their first consumer hardware product of any kind, and the cable was a third party design. It's not like the rest of the headset ever had replacement parts either, aside from the headphones, so if the internal audio cable went out like many did, then you were fucked and could only rely on the warranty or luck with customer support.