Potential Mega Rumor - Apple to ditch headphone jack & require Lightning for iPhone7
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You sound bitter.
Joel Was Right
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This is the biggest issue for me.
How are we meant to hold onto something even thinner?
A rumor is the reason you haven't owned an iPhone since 4? You have deep convictions.
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.
this = rumors that have been popping up for years and are unlikely to manifest?
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.
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.
makingmusic476
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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.
finalflame
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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.
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.
jts
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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.
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.
TheBryanJZX90
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And yet iPhones don't have wireless charging, something Androids and Windows Phones have had for years.
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.
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.
Maximus.
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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.
exmachina64
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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.
Intel's working on it.
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.
Intel's working on it.
show me your skeleton
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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.
Right? There's no way in hell I'm buying this phone if this is the case, and I've been iPhone exclusive since the 3G.
PotionBleue
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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?
WhiteRabbitEXE
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1mm thinner
every case gets 1mm thicker
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
Antiwhippy
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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.
StylesClash
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I wouldn't be able to listen to my iPhone in my car if this happened so I'm totally against it.
ArtHands
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Well no surprise, since its a gimmick as your phone has to be placed on the wireless pad for it to work which defeat the purpose.
Backfoggen
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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.
iPhone 6 thinness is the maximum, just leave it at that and do more with it.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.
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
If you need to cut out 1mm just switch from 3.5mm to 2.5mm headphones ¯\_(ツ_/¯
They're very brittle from my experience. I'll rather have lightning or the 3.5-D Jack instead.
True Savior
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Sounds catastrophic.
cheezcake
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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.
aygomyownroad
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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
Apple will sell a shit tonne but they don't deserve to as it fuels their crap ideas of form over function
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.
DING DING DING
$$$$ $$$$ $$$$
Seriously. Phones have been thin enough since forever now. Gives us better batteries instead of making them thinner. Specially if that is achieved by removing a port.
DING DING DING
$$$$ $$$$ $$$$
Langdon Alger
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Maybe thinness isn't the most important thing when it comes to phones.
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.
Apple giving a shit when no one else does is a pretty big part of why they're so successful.
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.
Palette Swap
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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.
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.
ThatCrazyGuy
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Damnit apple, I don't want thinner phones, I want better batteries!
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