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More Photos Show Off Alleged Lightning EarPods for iPhone 7 [Update: Fake]

Not all change is good.

What change made sense in the past? Removing a short-life, scratchable, limited storage medium with moving parts and heavy battery consumption from thinner, lighter and faster laptops. How many times did people use DVD drives on their laptops anyways? Proprietary power connectors were also brilliant; it gave us all faster charging, magnetic clicks, etc.

What doesn't make sense? Removing a low-power universally accepted, perfectly-convenient connector that's used daily and will cause the users frustration over carrying adapters and incompatibility.

The days of Apple saying "jump", and its customers saying "how high" are coming to an end.
 
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What about these 1mm thinner rumors.
There are a lot of schematics floating around that the iPhone 7 will be a little thicker. Around 0.05mm.
 
LordVic said:
was my first thought on seeing this, but more I think about it, the more likely this leak is faked.

if Aplpe were to do this, they would be making earphones that were incompatible with existing iOS devices, even if they hvae a lightning port. Existing LIghtning ports (I could be wrong) don't contain analogue audio.

So you'd need a pair of "new" lightning headphones for yournew iPhone, and a seperate set of headphones for any other devices you have.

if they went with an inline DAC/AMP, it would at least mean that any lightning headphone will work on any lightning equipped device.
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Older lightning accessories would simply ignore the contacts on the side. You would have the option of using a digital connection to used the DAC in the headphones, or use an adapter to use your old headphones.
 
Since I bought my iPhone 6s, I haven't used my Earpods once. I have two paid of the older models that came with my iPod Shuffle and Touch and I think they caused nothing but hearing issues and infections.
 
The way that Lightning connector is molded looks very un-Apple. Better be fake.
 
Not that it bothers me what headphones they ship. I'm waiting for the Jaybirds Freedom F5 to become available in the UK. Really want a pair!
 
ARB4 said:
These are probably the real ones. I say this because—although ugly—the connector would need a bit of a tab for grip and sturdiness. This design is more than likely a result of pretty extensive testing that would be "good enough" for the masses in general. The last thing they would need is bad PR from new EarPods that were breaking too easily.
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If these are real, the extra size of the connector would be to house the DAC; any extra grip/sturdiness would be an ancillary benefit.

If this is Apple's plan, it still seems like a bad one. Most people won't want to use dongles to make their existing headphones work; that certainly won't seem like a feature. Anyone using these earbuds would get a negligible sound improvement, if any. And those of us who plug our phones in while listening to headphones (i.e., while traveling on an overseas flight) will be simply out of luck. At the very least, this should be a situation where Apple pushes its preferred new standard without immediately transitioning away from the old one.
 
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dustinsc said:
Older lightning accessories would simply ignore the contacts on the side. You would have the option of using a digital connection to used the DAC in the headphones, or use an adapter to use your old headphones.
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Was refering specifically to the picture this thread is discussing

a lightning headphones that do not contain it's own DAC would be unusable by devices out today, since Lightning currently does not contain analogue audio signal.
 
SMIDG3T said:
How are these ugly? Apart from the connector which is thicker (because people don't take care of them so they break and then cry at Apple) they are exactly the same.

They are thicker so they can take more abuse from the people who don't look after them.
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Except Apple never makes anything thicker. ;)
 
Seriously people, don't cry when in fact they won't be too far of the real thing. The connector will be thicker so that it can take more abuse as I mentioned in a previous post.
 
If you post a photo and it ends up being fake, why not just take the article down? What's the point of leaving it up? "Hey, here's a faked photo. It's wrong, but have a look anyway!"
 
If I were a betting man, I'd be willing to bet a lot of money on the fact that Apple will no go back to round edges so soon after adopting straight ones. If for nothing else, this makes it 100% fake.
 
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