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iPhone 7's Secondary Speaker Holes May Be Purely Cosmetic
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Boggles the mind. Makes me think Apple has other reasons for removing the dedicated audio port than just making its customers mad.
The CAD drawings from a while back showed this. Not surprised at all.
Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
Apples and oranges.. To remove headphone jack and replace it with nothing is a slap in the face to loyal customers
But hey, at least Tim and company are able to better maintain those enormous profit margins!
We haven't heard much about $20,000 Apple Watches lately.
Unfortunate if true. Something about that just seems cheap.
The other article about the display components connecting at the bottom suggests that the removed the headphone port and moved things internally into that space so they had room for the new camera module at the top of the device.
It must be some monster camera, optical zoom coming to all iPhone 7's?
It must be some monster camera, optical zoom coming to all iPhone 7's?
How is this news? The iPhone has always had one speaker and one microphone in those spots.
Why do you assume nothing will occupy that space?
Impossible - Apple NEVER puts form over function!
Proof: I have seen a video with Jony Ive ín front of a white, where he explained just that...
Proof: I have seen a video with Jony Ive ín front of a white, where he explained just that...
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Perhaps because in the past something very, very useful was not being removed and replaced with holes. Past holes were just cosmetic- like the colors of the phone. This time, people are losing something pretty useful and thoroughly ubiquitous and getting holes plus maybe an adapter "tail" hanging out of the bottom. Even the "Apple is always right" crowd is having to work overtime to keep trying to rationalize this one to their fellow consumers.
This will be the most stup*d thing Apple have done design in recent years. I don't think it can be true.
I agree with this, but I hope it's true. I hope they just removed the mic port for no reason. It was be comical.
None. Absolutely none. Either way, speaker or no speaker, it will be laughable.
I pre ordered mine this week, Thanks Apple for guiding me!! LOL
AAHAHA is that a passthrough pipe so some smoke comes out the fake one? LMAONothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
Well if they are for symmetry then they should put the headphone jack back on top and center.
How about we wait until September to find out what benefits and costs this move will have. All we know right now is the cost, and you're ASSUMING the benefit is "nothing" and deeming it a "slap in the face" because we don't know the whole picture yet. Do you honestly think Tim or Phil are going to walk on stage and go "we removed the headphone jack, and in its place, are 6 additional ornamental holes that do nothing"?
I think everyone needs to take a deep breath - everyone's talking about their minds being boggled, a slap in the face, this being a crazy move and a betrayal of good design. That we're losing something is a near certainty - but we have no idea what the actual tradeoff (benefits) will be.
Even the assumption that Apple is greedy and wants to make money off of dongles isn't rational. iPhones are 60 percent of their revenue and dongles are likely <1%; they wouldn't risk one for the other.
