Why is anyone surprised? Innovation is dead at Apple. Innovation at Apple now consists of simply "How can we make it thinner?" Replace existing battery with a smaller battery? Who cares, it's thinner! Remove headphone jack? Who cares, it's thinner! Remove all ports except for one usb-c? Who cares, it's thinner!
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iPhone 7 May Feature Thinner, Waterproof Body With No Headphone Jack and Wireless Charging
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At last some additional features I actually want like wireless charging and waterproofing. Other smartphones have had these features for years. Hopefully if they do ditch the headphone jack it will be accompanied by the release of HQ music downloads.
What a sheepish thing to say. Most people still use industry standard connectors to wired headphones that don't require or waste lithium batteries.
Can't believe an environmentally friendly company would continue to make things more proprietary and wasteful, since lithium is not exactly "economic" to recycle... unless the more environmentally-conscious members were vying to end these projects and continues to get vetoed, what do board members do as work for a living, anyway, and are any of them truly environmentally-conscious?
It wouldn't be lightning port, but Samsung will rip them off and make a single port.
Making everything go through a proprietary connector is not innovation. It's a walled garden. Greed.
Probably costs more to get a fancy new wired headset that can't be used anywhere else than it does to use wasteful lithium powered bluetooth devices that won't sound as good and cost a lot already... never mind how frail thinner cables inevitably get. But that means more money, and more jobs in the landfill industry.
Is Apple trying to drive itself out of the market, or hope the rubes will continue to dumb themselves down to keep profit coming in?
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Look up articles online that tell how Apple copied Samsung, Apple copied Google, Apple copied Android, Apple copied Xerox... the point is, all these companies copy and rip off one another. Enough media articles have gotten to all of them at one time or another. But please don't try to sell the impression Apple has a blessed angel and everyone is doing evil ripoff stuff. That's old, very old. And that might have worked before the information age made all sorts of real, accurate information available to any news agency to caw over., but even then...
This is beyond true. Crazy as it sounds, it is the truth of the matter right now. Maybe one day Apple will get it together again, but for now it doesn't look like it.
It's exactly the same. You're skating to where the puck is, and not where the puck will be. Forget where Bluetooth technology is currently, and imagine where it will be in the future, especially if that future is driven by necessity to replace the 3.5mm jack. All of your complaints will get better, and eventually nonexistent The bottom line is that the future of audio is wireless. All things being equal, would you rather be tethered to your equipment with a wire, or have the freedom to go anywhere?
And how exactly will you not be able to use a wired headphone at all? There will still be a Lightning jack, and with an inexpensive inline adapter, of course you can use any headphone you want.
My MacBook Pro no longer has an Ethernet connector, I have to use an adapter. And neither does my Roku box. My iPad and iPhone don't have Ethernet connectors, and I don't even have the option to use an adapter with them. So no, not all devices have the option for both Wifi and Ethernet, and the list that does is dwindling every year. Besides, desktops and gaming consoles are fixed devices. It's not even the same use case as a mobile device, which is what the essence of a headphone is.
And why can't they have both? Because in part what's motivating them to remove it at this juncture is to free up over 184 cubic mm of internal space presently occupied by the redundant 3.5mm single purpose jack. That's a huge amount of space in a device as constrained as the iPhone, which could be better used for new technologies, or a larger battery, without having to make the phone any bigger, all of which keeps them competitive with Android, and Samsung.
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Yawn...
OK, let's see who's first to have the balls to drop the audio jack?
Of course you'll be one of those {people} who believe Apple copied Google in creating the original iPhone.
So regardless of what anyone says, putting Apple in a positive light, they'll "get it wrong", right?
Why do you come to MacRumors anyway since it's about an unexciting company that takes no risks?
Or is it that you come here to find out where your preferred platform is going to be heading in a couple of years from now?
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All my headphones are bluetooth - in what century are you living?
It is already explained that the new iPhone may be thinner and have a bigger battery, if the analog audio port is removed.
This "leak" seems timed to attempt to raise interest about the iPhone 7. This early timing leads me to believe Apple may be a bit concerned about the sales volume presently. If demand was robust, these rumors would likely be saved for later. Sooner or later the record setting demand must subside, could it be now?
Why would anyone want wired headphones????? This is 2016. Wireless or bust.
Now this would be an interesting move from Apple. I have an amazing $300 pair of E-4 headphones from Etymotic and if they get rid of the jack I will have no way to use them with my phone any more. I'd be forced to listen to bad gym music and be miserable during my workouts. Or, I'd be forced to buy a cheaper and lower quality set of bluetooth headphones just to listen to music on my phone (which is not an option for me). I'd definitely buy a non-Apple phone if they did this
Because iPhone 6s reduces battery life to accompany 3D touch, I abandon iPhone 6s. If iPhone 7 removes headphone jack,
I might need to consider using an Android device + iPod touch.
Everyone wants a bigger battery and they can tolerate that thickness to use iPhone a little bit longer. Apple is going crazier than before. I guess, they have not received any punishment on changing trend forcefully yet.
Personally happy with the removal of the jack - I don't use it for a start - I have had Bluetooth headphones since about 2006.
I dont want wireless charging - I don't want to have multiple charging pads around fo rthe multiple devices. If it is wireless and wired charging then why waste space having wireless charging?
I dont want wireless charging - I don't want to have multiple charging pads around fo rthe multiple devices. If it is wireless and wired charging then why waste space having wireless charging?
I meant the jack is too thick you can't make the phone any thinner with a 3.5mm jack. Plus it eliminates another way for water to get in.
Now this would be an interesting move from Apple. I have an amazing $300 pair of E-4 headphones from Etymotic and if they get rid of the jack I will have no way to use them with my phone any more. I'd be forced to listen to bad gym music and be miserable during my workouts. Or, I'd be forced to buy a cheaper and lower quality set of bluetooth headphones just to listen to music on my phone (which is not an option for me). I'd definitely buy a non-Apple phone if they did this
Right, because all of that is better than something like this, which will likely cost around $19-$29:
Well, some device makers include them. I guess there must be a purpose.
I hope they remove the lightening port too. I'm in favor of Apple pushing boundaries and going pure wireless for every product. Ports and wires are lame anyway
Now this would be an interesting move from Apple. I have an amazing $300 pair of E-4 headphones from Etymotic and if they get rid of the jack I will have no way to use them with my phone any more. I'd be forced to listen to bad gym music and be miserable during my workouts. Or, I'd be forced to buy a cheaper and lower quality set of bluetooth headphones just to listen to music on my phone (which is not an option for me). I'd definitely buy a non-Apple phone if they did this
Or you could use a $20 adapter for your $300 headphones.
I understand that people are against this... but can we at least cut down on the hyperbole about how "devastating" this move is?
Right and some people act like pressure sensitive screens and self-healing ports to allow water-proofing are some kind of innovative thing!