Because wireless headphones were impossible with 3.5 mm jacks.
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Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack Was Essential for Water Resistance, New Camera System
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Because wireless headphones were impossible with 3.5 mm jacks.
Today's keynote slide describing the Lightning connector clearly says "digital audio".
Kudos you've expressed it well.
Several of the posts here in the forums have praised Apple for going wireless and all digital... they're either dreamers or in denial. For all the marketing hype and posturing, they have a long ways to go to become wireless.
I'm honestly not understanding the frustration I see regarding Apple removing the 3.5mm headphone jack. The lightning cable has audio transmitting capabilities. If you want to still use your old 3.5mm headphones, the iPhone 7 comes with an adapter. I myself have been using the 3.5mm jack for many years since walkman cassette tape players, but have been using wireless bluetooth earphones for nearly a year now and honestly much rather wireless earphones for on the go or even lounging with my iPhone. So can someone explain why the hate and what exactly we are really loosing with this loss of 3.5mm jack in favor of lightning and wireless options ?
Then Samsung will come back with a counter commercial to that where the Samsung users is still dancing around and enjoying their wired headphones when all of the iPhone users are out of power on their wireless AirPods struggling to listen to musics, because they can't continue to listen to musics while charging their phones.
Believe me on this. Samsung will tear Apple apart on those commercials.
it's bs.
many phones are fully water proof including samsungs of even 2-3 years ago,with no such huge un-necessary compromise.
Samsung doesn't have the same internals as Apple. Let's not compare apples to oranges. The Haptic Engine should be a clue, combined with other subtle design changes that the jack had to go. They gave you an adapter. Stop whining already.
I have no issue with wireless. I've been using Bluetooth wireless for a year or so myself. They do have adaptors.
No phone is fully waterproof which is why Samsung will deny claims on water damaged phones.
Really? Because the adapter that is included makes those 3.5mm jack headphones obsolete? Think before you speak. Didn't your mother ever tell you that?
Guys, I'm in Germany and I'm not driving with headphones on. I connect the 3.5mm jack of the phone to the aux in on my car stereo. That's definitely legal. And I can charge at the same time
Well Samsung and the note 7 seems to leave the world a lot of ammunition. They might want to be careful about "tearing" any product apart.
Everyone is moving away from it eventually. Have fun with a foam cup and a string to call.
Since Steve confides in you, ask him how he's doing and also
Ask him HIS opinion on the headphone jack.
I eagerly await his answer....
You still can't charge your iPhone 7 while listening to musics. So either you have to listen to musics and let the phone battery die out and then charge your phone again. Or you have to listen to musics via the AirPods that will only lasts you for 5 hours (at moderate volume and not at max) before you have to stop the music listening to charge them.
With a 3.5mm minijack. I can listen to musics or whatever forever as i can charge my phone while i listens to musics.
Seems like the iPhone 7 users will be more 'wall huggers' than it ever has been before.
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Guys, I'm in Germany and I'm not driving with headphones on. I connect the 3.5mm jack of the phone to the aux in on my car stereo. That's definitely legal. And I can charge at the same time
Yes but this is about improving upon that.
It reminds me of the old Indian ways joke. Here's a good version...
The old Cherokee chief sat in his reservation hut, smoking the ceremonial pipe, eyeing the two US government officials sent to interview him.
"Chief Two Eagles," one official began, "you have observed the white man for many generations, you have seen his wars and his products, you have seen all his progress, and all his problems."
The chief nodded. The official continued, "Considering recent events, in Your opinion, where has the white man gone wrong?"
The chief stared at the government officials for over a minute, and then calmly replied. "When white man found the land, Indians were running it:
* No taxes.
* No debt.
* Plenty buffalo
* Plenty beaver
* Women did all the work
* Medicine man free
* Indian men hunted and fished all the time."
The chief smiled, and added quietly, "White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that."
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Bluetooth headsets still sound a lot worse then regular ones and cost tons more. This move is akin to apple putting an lcd in their iMac G3 when they were much poorer quality
Don't mind losing the jack, but won't be able to charge phone and listen to music at the same time?
This is exactly the point here, which you don't seem to understand. Getting rid of the headphone jack didn't suddenly make wireless headphones possible. Samsung can do wireless listening just as well as Apple, but now Apple has problems with quality wired headphones and still doesn't have wireless charging. Samsung can do 100% wireless.
headphone choice and wireless charging are 2 pretty big things that other companies clearly do better than Apple and they will be selling points.