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We knew that the iPhone 7 would drop the headphone jack as far back as 2015 and nobody could really figure out the benefits to doing so. One of the reasons Apple gave was to save space inside of the iPhone 7 for other components. Given that the headphone jack has been replaced by a second speaker grille on the device, you may think that perhaps that space was taken up by a second speaker. However, it turns out that is not the case at all.
teardown of the iPhone 7 performed by iFixit has revealed that the additional speaker grille appears to only be there for aesthetic purposes and doesn’t actually serve any practical purpose.
Image source: iFixit
To be fair to Apple, they did not claim that there would be two speakers at the bottom of the iPhone 7. However, the new phone does tout stereo audio now, with an additional speaker at the top of the device.
On top of that, the space previously occupied by the headphone jack has been used up by a larger haptic feedback engine and slightly larger battery. The haptic feedback engine now has two uses in the iPhone 7, delivering 3D Touch as well as simulating clicks for the home button, which explains why it needed to be bigger.
KitGuru Says: If you are familiar with the iPad line-up, you may not be surprised to learn that Apple has thrown in an extra speaker grille on the iPhone 7 for aesthetic purposes. After all, this has been happening in iPads for years.
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One word: greed
Longer explanation: Jobs always wanted a fully closed ecosystem, with high margins and no competition. By closing out all the open standards and competing products, Apple if forcing everybody to use their stuff.
It’s a bout greed, profits and inability to compete in open , free markets.
Zen thought of the day (no, not THAT zen): Is it still a speaker grille if there isn’t any speaker there?
Isn’t it just a grille or “cosmetic embellishment for symmetry”. Especially considering there seems to be a lot of components blocking any sound transfer to it coming from the actual speaker. 😉
Only if you presume that taking a speaker grill off of a speaker causes it to stop being a speaker grill.
This is stupid. If there is something better to replace the old technology, it will do anyway.
Like with the floppy disks, nobody just flat out said “no more floopies for ya” and tried to stop them from being shipped with computers.
They just faded away because cd and dvd’s where better in any possible way and they became cheap enough to not being a premium device.
The same could happen with the headphone’s jack, but only when there is a true alternative you can have at a reasonable price.
The difference there is that it is removable, so not quite the same thing.
You can’t exactly take the “fake” grille off an iPhone and put it on a real speaker can you. 😉
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There’s shitload of speakers which grills won’t fit on other speakers.