Can you imagine iPhone 7 without headphone jack?

Those all kinds of rumors about the next iPhone, of course the iPhone 7, wireless charging, OLED display, waterproof technology, maybe, but no headphone jack?!!

The 3.5mm audio jack is one of the oldest I/O ports that still around. We don’t see Ethernet that much anymore, we don’t see Firewire anymore, we don’t see VGA anymore, but every single device that’s comes out in the last couple years still has an audio jack. It’s like the grandfather of legacy I/O, all its older relatives have died, but they have been replaced by digital ports, HDMI, USB Type C, Thunderbolt, but everything still has the audio jack.

The iPhone has always been a struggle of feeding as much stuff as possible in as compact space as possible, it’s not even really about thinness, the iPod Touch is already like 10% thinner than the iPhone 6, and it has audio jack still, it’s not about the thinness, but there is just so much stuff packed into an iPhone. So this battle to thin more and more stuff into the iPhone every year has of course come with sacrifices. When you consider how much space it actually takes up inside the chassis, it actually takes up a lot, it’s a big port, so at that low, a couple of millimeters can be pretty important.

So Apple 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. This is insane because it kind of is, but at least can understand it a little from Apple’s perspective and also there is like tiny advantages using lightning for audio, because it’ a digital port. 

But here the problems come, you want to keep using your pair of headphones that you already have, you need adapter, you want to play audio in your car that doesn’t have Bluetooth, you need adapter, you want to charge your phone and listen to headphones at the same time, you need adapter, unless there are two lightning ports.