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More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Re: More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Post by pen2l »

tomschlick wrote: post #9
pen2l wrote: post #5

But it'll stick with Lightning port, instead of adopting usb type C, the article suggests. That's disappointing. I wonder if ever the iphone will switch to usb type c -- every other phone will later this year.

Apple would probably piss more people off than they would make happy. The amount of lightning port gear out there has to be huge. People flipped when they went from the 30-pin to lightning just a few years ago.

And they won't when ditching the 3.5mm audio jack?!

By the time iphone7 is released, every other major phone will have already adopted USB type c. Maybe people will be happier that they can borrow a friend's android's cable since it is usable. USB type c ports will be absolutely everywhere soon anyway.

I don't think Apple is afraid of pissing people off. E.g., they made the macbook air have just one port usb type c port... (I must say I rather like that they are willing to do this, these are the decisions that really establish usb type c port! I just wish they'll do it with iphone7 too)

Re: More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Post by on_and_off »

lvspiff wrote: post #15

With bluetooth headphones/speakers becoming more prevalent this makes sense. What do we get in return though? Less battery life because now bluetooth must be on? Thinner and easier to bend? If they gave me a microsd slot it would be worth it...

the industry seems obsessed with thinness, am I the only one thinking that we have passed the point of diminishing returns a while ago ?

IMO recent high-end smartphones, even large ones (iPhone 6S plus, Nexus 6P) are already thin enough.

Re: More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Post by pilsetnieks »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #10

Because the number 1 things users say when asked what they'd change about their phone: "I wish it was thinner"

I have a suspicion that they couldn't change it for now even if they wanted to. There are articles claiming that the 5th and 6th (current) generation were already under development under Jobs. If it is so, then the 7th and 8th generations have also been in the pipeline for years now.

Assuming Jobs presided over the trend for thinness, and the ID team continued that direction after his death, if they even listen to people become more vocal about thinness vs. battery life since 2014, they could have it influence the design of maybe the 8th or 9th generation.

Remember that at those scales you don't have to just redesign a phone, you have to redesign supply chains, processes, fabrication methods and machines.

Re: More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Post by api »

dijit wrote: post #20

Shit, we only just got all phone manufacturers working with the same standard. Remember those tiny little jacks 2.5mm (used most recently in my memory for xbox 360). I hated that, you're locked in to one set of headphones and when they break (which they do, because they're made of garbage and greed) then you have lost a function of your device. Obviously Apple will have a plethora of other headphones to choose from,…

> Obviously Apple will have a plethora of overpriced headphones

FTFY

Re: More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jack on the iPhone 7

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Post by jasonpbecker »

ntumlin wrote: post #2

Is there any major downside to the 3.5mm jack? Especially that hold a candle to the cheapness of them and how widespread they are?

Volume (spatial). It takes up a ton of room inside the phone that could be battery.

I'm not particularly excited about it, but it's obvious why they'd want to do this, even if the phone doesn't get thinner, based on this picture from an iFixit teardown: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/fdaWRVGrZhxlZoJH.h...

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