Potential Mega Rumor - Apple to ditch headphone jack & require Lightning for iPhone7

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Apple gonna Apple. Moves like this are exactly why I haven't been able to stomach any Apple products since the iPod Classic (and my 160GB one is still kicking!). Rather than care about customer convenience they always go for proprietary stuff like this just to sell more of their branded items.
You sound bitter.
 
Counter argument: this means the next iphone comes with a 2000+ mah battery. Only justification for this is using a 2200 mah battery and coming with three days of battery life. Three day battery life and 7 hours SOT is the only justification for ditching the headphone jack.

After looking at 200 videos of the Z5 Compact I'm now thoroughly convinced that a bulky smartphone is not a bad thing. Give me battery life and leave the thin battles for chinese OEMs. Not a shot because there's a chinese OEM that made the world's thinnest smartphone by taking out the headphone jack.

The company that made its desktop keyboards worse so it could make them thinner is going to remove the headphone jack and then just increase the battery size?

No, they're going thinner.
 
Apple need to make two iPhones, but not based on screen size. Do what was done with the macbook series. Macbook Pro is meant for performance and Macbook Air/Macbook compromises performance for thinness. Make an iPhone that doesn't try to be ridiculously thin and offers better performance/battery as well as a dumb thin one.
 
Apple need to make two iPhones, but not based on screen size. Do what was done with the macbook series. Macbook Pro is meant for performance and Macbook Air/Macbook compromises performance for thinness. Make an iPhone that doesn't try to be ridiculously thin and offers better performance/battery as well as a dumb thin one.

This makes too much sense though.
 
If Apple packages every iPhone 7 with Lightning/Bluetooth Headphones AND an adapter/dongle, then I think this could work fine without much hubbub.

That said, I don't think they will have the balls to kill the headphone jack so soon, especially if it's just over making their phones 1mm thinner. At worst, I think the iPhone 7 will have no headphone jack, and the iPhone 7 Plus will have a headphone jack. That way they have one model for people that care about small size and thinness, and one model for people that don't mind a bigger phone.
 
If Apple packages every iPhone 7 with Lightning/Bluetooth Headphones AND an adapter/dongle, then I think this could work fine without much hubbub.

That said, I don't think they will have the balls to kill the headphone jack so soon, especially if it's just over making their phones 1mm thinner. At worst, I think the iPhone 7 will have no headphone jack, and the iPhone 7 Plus will have a headphone jack. That way they have one model for people that care about small size and thinness, and one model for people that don't mind a bigger phone.
They may think they've achieved such a significant foothold in the market that they could pull it off. We have plenty of examples from the video game world of incredibly influential corporations overestimating their hand and screwing it all up.

That being said, this rumor has popped up with previous iterations of the iPhone, and as far as I can tell, there's no evidence that it's actually going to happen this time.
 
It's 2015 so I use wireless bluetooth headphones, not really worried about it.

Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices on old tech to move forward. Here's what I predict: everyone will bitch about it, yet the iPhone 7 will break sales records.
 
It's still possible to go at least 1mm thinner while keeping the jack, the iPod touch proves it. Thinner than that we start to go into knives territory. Joking, but that would really be extremely thin.

This will still happen at some point for the sake of streamlining the phone's hardware. I think that with people switching over to bluetooth (you're already SOL without bluetooth headphones for some classes of devices) or attaching an adapter to their headphones of choice it won't be a big deal. Like losing the optical drive ended up not being one either.

I think Apple will release their own (non-Beats) bluetooth headphones, "AirPods". As shitty sounding as they will be they will, moreso together with a jackless iPhone, push the lower end market to go bluetooth as well.
 
I think Apple will release their own (non-Beats) bluetooth headphones, "AirPods". As shitty sounding as they will be they will, moreso together with a jackless iPhone, push the lower end market to go bluetooth as well.

I think next year may be a transitional year. They will introduce wireless headphones, but keep the headphone jack. Then in 2017 they stop including the jack for the iPhone 7S/7S Plus.
 
Would be the dumbest move ever. Sorry about those 300 dollar headphones you bought sold by beats who is owned by Apple. LOL, Samsung would have a field day and PR would be very bad.

If anything they'll have a crazy slim phone variant iPhone Infinity or something that goes along with the normal line. Then maybe no jack on the normal line later depending on its reception.
 
I am not saying I agree with this, but I think people underestimate how many people just use the pack in headphones. I do think eventually we will move away from the headphone jack, much like many other old ports and technology. Just a matter of what will be the next universal option.
 
Over time, I've found that I'd be okay if Apple does this. Between the new car my wife and I purchased having Bluetooth; the Oonzt Angle 3 I purchased recently when it was a Daily Deal on Amazon; and using the EarPods that came with my iPhone more regularly because my Bluetooth headset would get uncomfortable after extended periods, I've mostly adapted to not using the headset jack.

While it wouldn't cause a significant disruption in the way I use my phone, I recognize that it would for other people and that's a problem. For most of the time I've had a smartphone, I wasn't in a financial situation where I could easily shrug off Apple doing this and charging $79+ (we know it will be expensive); just because I am now doesn't mean I don't care about Apple affecting others this way.

It's 2015, you'd think we would've gotten rid of cords altogether by now.

Intel's working on it.
 
Mini-DP, Thunderbolt, USB 3.1, MagSafe v2, etc.
all of them, bar magsafe, are industry standards though to be fair.
but yeah, it's only a matter of time. apple love to push a very specific way of doing things over the norm, some of which get accepted by the rest of the tech. world, such as removing optical drives and ethernet ports.
 
The last time I tried Bluetooth headphones there was a small but irritating audio delay when watching videos or playing games. The technology works now?
 
1mm thinner
every case gets 1mm thicker


fuck this stupid trend of pulling out every goddamn port and button to make things negligible amounts smaller and then requiring an even bigger accessory to compensate
 
How many FLAC fans are seriously using their phones as audio players? We live in a world of Spotify now.

And it doesn't seem like people who do like quality audio would be out of a wired option.

It's not about flac. I don't believe in flac myself, it's just that Bluetooth requires you to have your audio processed through the Bluetooth device's (built into the headphone or external) DSP and while they're improving still aren't as good as a dedicated dac and amp, because there's only so much you can pack inside.
 
God I hope not. The iPhone 6 is already too thin. Apple's race to thinness is stupid, especially if it's costing us potential battery life.

Also, wireless headphones sound like the worst. What I don't need is another stupid thing I have to remember if I've recharged or not.
 
I have no problem with ditching the headphone jack but making it thinner once again is gonna make that camera stick out again. :( iPhone 6 thinness is the maximum, just leave it at that and do more with it.
 
It's not about flac. I don't believe in flac myself, it's just that Bluetooth requires you to have your audio processed through the Bluetooth device's (built into the headphone or external) DSP and while they're improving still aren't as good as a dedicated dac and amp, because there's only so much you can pack inside.

How many people using Bluetooth headphones give a shit? Less than 1%? It's minor.

And again, this doesn't remove wired as an option.
 
So we can't charge and use headphones at the same time? Brilliant, this is exactly why I haven't owned an iPhone since 4. That Apple ecosystem.

Funny that the reason you don't own a iPhone is also a false one.

To be honest if they keep the same camera foot print, the camera lens will pop out even more! I rather they make it flush again, fill the rest of the empty space with more batteries or make it less tall, lose the "useless" space above and below the screen.

I love my iPhone 6s, even though holding it with one hand is kinda hard. but the camera that pops out is still my biggest issue with the thing
 
I don't understand this obsession to have thinner and thinner phones. The iphone 6s is already extremely thin, I would rather they keep the same thickness and put in a bigger battery.
 
The company that made its desktop keyboards worse so it could make them thinner is going to remove the headphone jack and then just increase the battery size?

No, they're going thinner.

This.

It's so absolutely idiotic. Why the fuck do you need a thinner phone?
 
It's 2015 so I use wireless bluetooth headphones, not really worried about it.

Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices on old tech to move forward. Here's what I predict: everyone will bitch about it, yet the iPhone 7 will break sales records.

Moving forward in this case is making a 7mm thick phone a 6mm thick phone. If this happens the only reason would be Apple wanting to reap the enormous profits of people buying overpriced adapters to use their standard 3.5mm headphones, and manufactures paying apple to put lightning connectors on their new headphones.
 
My partner will by furious if this happens. She charges her phone in bed while listening to music through conventional earphones.

Apple will sell a shit tonne but they don't deserve to as it fuels their crap ideas of form over function
 
Damn. Would most likely switch to Android if they went through with this.

Seems like a terrible idea. And I truly don't get the obsession with an ultra thin phone. Like who gives a shit? No iPhone has ever been too thick to use ever.
 
That is all I've ever wanted. My phone to be 1mm thinner!






Seriously. Phones have been thin enough since forever now. Gives us better batteries instead of making them thinner. Specially if that is achieved by removing a port.


Moving forward in this case is making a 7mm thick phone a 6mm thick phone. If this happens the only reason would be Apple wanting to reap the enormous profits of people buying overpriced adapters to use their standard 3.5mm headphones, and manufactures paying apple to put lightning connectors on their new headphones.

DING DING DING
$$$$ $$$$ $$$$
 
Apple still obsessed with making things thinner lol.

They made the Apple TV fatter and still managed to remove a port many people still use. It's just Apple being cheap as usual. But thanks to them I've discovered how much better Roku is than Apple TV.
 
They made the Apple TV fatter and still managed to remove a port many people still use. It's just Apple being cheap as usual. But thanks to them I've discovered how much better Roku is than Apple TV.

Yeah I hate to say it - Tim Cook loves to play up his nice guy persona on stage, but he's got a nasty streak in him. He loves to squeeze every penny out of his customers.
 
Damn. Would most likely switch to Android if they went through with this.

Seems like a terrible idea. And I truly don't get the obsession with an ultra thin phone. Like who gives a shit? No iPhone has ever been too thick to use ever.

Apple giving a shit when no one else does is a pretty big part of why they're so successful.
 
They made the Apple TV fatter and still managed to remove a port many people still use. It's just Apple being cheap as usual. But thanks to them I've discovered how much better Roku is than Apple TV.
I know, I dumped may 6S and Apple TV for a nexus 6P and Chromecast and couldn't be happier.
My next stop is a surface 4 instead of iPad pro.
I used to love Apple stuff but now, fuck 'em.
 
Yeah, I don't take my phone and think "damn, I wish this was thinner". Everything else being equal, I'd rather they focused on battery life.

Plus, I don't really want to change my wired headphones. I guess they'd release an adapter but that's still wholly unnecessary in my case.
 
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