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Apple is on a constant mission to make its devices thinner than before. We saw this with the iPhone 6, which has the camera sticking out of the back of the phone slightly and now, Apple is apparently also thinking about ditching the headphone jack in order to make the iPhone 7 even thinner. That doesn't mean you won't be able to use headphones with the phone though.
Earlier this year, we heard rumours about Apple developing new Ear Pods that would fit in to the lightning port instead. This would likely be the case if Apple does intend to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7.
This information comes from sources speaking with a Japanese blog known as Macotakara. By ditching the headphone jack, the iPhone 7 will be at least one whole millimetre thinner. However, the headphone jack isn't the only thing stopping Apple from making the iPhone thinner.
The iPhone 6S was the first of the company's smartphones to incorporate 3D touch, which required the phone to be a tad thicker than the last, so Apple will also need to find a way to make that more compact as well.
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KitGuru Says: I'm not a big fan of this idea really, I think we are at a point where smartphones are thin enough and ditching the headphone jack doesn't seem like a great solution. Do you guys often use headphones with your smartphone?
I don’t want a thinner device! I want a thicker device and better battery. Apple does exactly what their customers don’t want but the sheep buy it anyway.
For your information, you are not the entirety of apple’s customers. Have you ever considered that what you want might not be the same as all these ‘sheep’ ? Surely they like the phone otherwise people wouldn’t have bought it in the first place.
Well, audio quality through other channels has more potential, the problem is that most people don’t have head sets that are compatible with Apple’s plans. So bring on the incredibly overpriced, and crappy compared to real headsets, Apple Beats headsets that you need to listen to music on your iPhone.
People rarely know what they want. It’s not particularly new that people rationalize their choices after they have made them and that they aren’t even aware of this. People aren’t the rational species you make them out to be 😉 Not that I think Apple consumers are unhappy with their purchase or something – Apple does make high quality products, I enjoyed my original iPod Mini and later my iPod Touch – but neither do I think for a minute that Sheeple buy an iPhone because it offered all they wanted.
Why don’t they simply change to a 2.5mm jack?
Lol where did you remember that? 😀
And you think that this is any different with say.. Samsung or HTC?
As you said, it’s the species, not the brand. Yet every single comment about people either being stupid or irrational when they buy something, is when they buy an apple product. Don’t you think that’s a bit off? Also, you would be surpised as to how many people actually do make rational choices. And then I mean beforehand. The fact Apple is selling so many of her products should at least remotely have to do something about the fact the products are great. Putting your ideologies on the human race aside.
And the £40 converter cable that’ll break and won’t fit into phones with cases.
How absolutely pointless, the iphones are already so thin they’re becoming more awkward to hold. I wonder if this is just an Apple attempt to have their own connector that only beats headphones will come with by default, they need to find some way to shift those useless piles of plop.
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Like you said, I talk about people, not Apple costumers. And those are not ideologies, but scientific theories supported by mass evidence. Rationality is not something humans are particularly good at, in fact, we’re pretty bad at it. That’s not to say we don’t make rational choices. Especially when we buy expensive products we tend to do so more, but still, a lot of rationalization is post-hoc: we think we made a rational choice, but our brain is just messing with us.
And people do bitch more about Apple, definitely not exclusively, but there are plenty of reasons for that. And of course not all of them dealing with the quality of Apple products. It has to do with how Apple presents itself, how some of its consumers present themselves, the products they make, envy is obviously also part of it, etc.
The sheeple will buy this in their droves.
Consumer behaviour and satisfaction: https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce?language=en
TLDR: People don’t know what they really want; people enjoy buying more expensive products because it makes them feel superior to their peers; lastly there is no single perfect product for everyone (you need variety).
I could never own an iPhone: for me they are too small, the software is crazily restricted and the price excessively bloated. I only see my phone as a tool, not social symbol. Apple is starting to bring more variety, but it’s just not what I’m looking for in a phone.
Without starting the discussion about if apple fans are sheep or not (since its already started below).
But apple is one of the only companies that can do this and still sell their product no problem. When the nr 7 phone arrives apple knows that it will outsell the ladt version and if it means people have to buy a new set of headphones sure why not u buying a new phone anyway.
If any android manufacturer try to do this their phone will just not sell.. Because people would just buy one of the other products, u cant do that with Apple, if u want the newest then u have to bite the apple….