Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 7 with no Headphone Jack?!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here and we are barely into 2016 and we’re already hearing all kinds of rumors, of course, about the next iphone, the iphone 7 uh wireless charging, maybe oled display possibly waterproof technology, maybe no headphone jack yeah, no headphone jack in the Iphone 7., the three and a half millimeter audio jack is one of the oldest. I o ports. That’S still around, like you, don’t see ethernet that much anymore. You don’t see firewire anymore, you don’t see vga anymore. They used to be everywhere, but every single device.
That’S come out in the last couple years still has that audio jack, it’s kind of like the grandfather of legacy io. All its older relatives have died, firewire is dead, but they’ve all been replaced by digital ports, so hdmi thunderbolt, usb type c, but everything still has that audio jack. The iphone has always been a struggle of fitting as much stuff as possible and as compact of a space as possible. It’S not even really about thinness. The ipod touch is already like 10 thinner than the iphone, and it has an audio jack.
Still it’s not about the thinness, but there’s just so much stuff packed into an iphone. So this battle to fit more and more stuff into the iphone every year has of course come with its sacrifices. You probably all remember the 30 pin connector that every ipod and iphone user had eventually apple just decided. It’S too big. We want to fit more stuff in the iphone, so they switched to the way smaller thunderbolt cable, to replace it. It makes sense for apple, but that in typical apple fashion screws over everyone who was using their previous stuff.
So now your docs don’t work your battery cases, don’t work. Your chargers, don’t work all those accessories that plug into 30 pin don’t work anymore, but that was just the sacrifice. Apple was willing to make to fit more stuff. Now you might not ever consider getting rid of the three and a half millimeter audio jack. It’S kind of a staple everything is fine with it, but when you consider how much space it actually takes up inside the chassis, it actually takes up a lot and it’s a big port.
So at that level a couple of millimeters can be pretty important. So apple’s logical solution seems to point to iphone 7 just get rid of the audio jack and if you still want to plug in headphones, you have to do that through the lightning port. Now, okay, this seems insane because it kind of is but at least we can understand it a little from apple’s perspective and also there’s also like tiny advantages to using lightning for audio, because it’s a digital port, so apple could toss in some little software features here And there into the os, you could have minor things like your music app opening. The second you plug your headphones in and lightning headphones could talk back to your iphone, maybe setting a certain eq as soon as they’re plugged in you could have noise cancelling headphones that, instead of using their own battery taps into the iphone’s power via lightning kind of The same way, the apple pencil taps into the ipad pro for battery, so in apple’s mines it makes sense to just kill off the big old auxiliary port and do everything through lightning, of course, in classic apple fashion. This again means temporarily screwing over everyone, because who has lightning headphones. Looks like philips actually makes a pair that you can buy right now, but they’re 300 bucks so for everyone who doesn’t want to buy a new pair of headphones apple will probably sell a lightning to auxiliary adapter. For, oh, i don’t know 50 bucks classic want to keep using the awesome pair of wired headphones that you already have adapter to play. Audio in your car that doesn’t have bluetooth adapter want to charge your phone and listen to headphones at the same time unless there’s two lightning ports in the next iphone yeah adapter. So this is such an apple thing to do at this point. It doesn’t actually really surprise me at this point. The iphone 7 is so far into development that there’s no point in like arguing it. It’S probably already set in stone, it’s gon na happen.
So at this point, all we really can do is brace for it, but also think about it. People got mad when apple got rid of the floppy drives in the first imac, but then we got used to it. People got mad when apple got rid of the cd drive, then we got used to it. People got mad when apple got rid of firewire and their high-end machines, then we got used to it.
People got mad when apple got rid of the 30 pin connector in favor of lightning in the iphone, and then we got used to it. So people are going to get mad if slash when apple gets rid of the audio jack in their iphone. But they’ll get used to it. If i had the choice, obviously i would have the next iphone be a full three millimeters thicker. It would keep the audio jack, it would have a bigger battery, it would have bigger speakers etc. But you know that’s not up to me and i’m not the only one who thinks this too people plenty of people have had this idea, but there’s been this trend going towards thinner phones and that’s just the way apple. Does things just kind of funny that the company that brought us the ipod might be the first to get rid of the audio jack, something to think about thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace? .