[House Atreides]

There's been a considerable amount of "woe be me" posts (ironically posted mostly by folks who have no intention of being in the Apple ecosystem) about the non-inclusion of the 3.5mm audio jack on the new iPhone 7. The linked article covers how many Headphone manufacturers are reacting to this development to improve their products. The above extract is just a small portion of the article and I encourage folks to go to the linked article for more extensive information.

[House Atreides]

FYI

[P-Marlowe]

I paid a lot of money for a few apps that use the headphone jack and will not work with any kind of blue tooth. Those apps would be useless with a 7 phone.

Sorry,

No sale.

[LouieFisk]

“being in the Apple ecosystem”
==
I don’t know that I’d ever use the term “ecosystem”, much less care to be part of one.

[plain talk]

Of course the headphone companies like it. It gives them an opening to make people buy things they don’t need just to listen to music while Apple can save pennies on installing a lousy headphone jack.

[Da Coyote]

Present generationgones will work fine.

Apple includes an adapter. RTF instructions, oh lib arts majors.

[BlueStateRightist]

Disclaimer: I’m a loyal Apple customer (I own 10 Apple devices).

Losing the jack allows for water resistance (huge), and wireless headphones are a leap forward. [Who likes wires?] Better battery life on the iPhone 7 also makes it a likely purchase for me.

[mom4melody]

I use wireless headphones now...my hubs works for Audio Tecchnica and got them for me.

[aquila48]

Of course the headphone companies won’t complain - that’s a whole new market to sell to. It’s the users that get the short end on the stick.

[W.]

I have a pair of Sennheiser headphones, wired. They’re excellent, Krauts make good stuff, but it ain’t cheap! It never is...

[HamiltonJay]

This whole headphone thing is much ado about nothing.

The jack had to go because the phone could not get any thinner with it, pure and simple.

The phone will come with earbuds that work with the Lightning port.. All your wireless Bluetooth headphones will still work just fine. So unless you have some expensive wired headphones you want to use, who cares? And if you do a cheap adapter takes care of you.

Really really don’t see this as a big deal. I am no early tech adopter and I haven’t purchased any wired headphones or speakers in at least 5 years... Can’t imagine doing so ever again.

I also have never purchased a set of earbuds beyond the ones that came with my phone.

If I did have a $200 set of earphones that were wired I may not be happy but a $10 adapter or whatever and I ca. Still use them.. But honestly I would probably just go buy a nice Bluetooth pair and be done with the cord entirely.

[Red Badger]

Does 7 have Bluetooth?........

[Swordmaker]

Headphone companies: no headphone jack, no problem— "To Sennheiser, Apple’s hardware change is just another opportunity. Being pushed into developing Lightning headphones is a challenge that the German company is embracing, and it’s already thinking about ways to exploit that digital connector’s greater capabilities over the classic analog standard. That’s the thing I’d have liked to see Apple do — give people a reason to want Lightning headphones specifically — but ... it’s looking like the third-party accessory makers will solve the problem for Apple...." Just as I was saying! — PING!

Apple will come out OK!
Ping!

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