[mmxiii]

I get that people have a handful of reasons why they would prefer that the headphone jack sticks around.

But do you think that in 10 years, and if not that, in 100 years, that the headphone jack will still be the primary interface?

And if the answer is no, that will not be the case, and we are ready to move on today, what's wrong for a company to move on? There will always be tradeoffs in the short term, but the vector of this movement is clearly down the path of no headphone jack.

[flukus]

Yes, just like I expect our electrical wires and plugs to be largely the same in 100 years.

[stephengillie]

Given the quality of today's wireless audio devices, and the slowdown in Moore's law, I don't see any replacement for the venerable headphone jack. Like TCP, it's a solved problem.

[threeseed]

Headphone jack is analog and large in size. It's definitely due for replacement.

[stordoff]

1) You need an analogue stage somewhere to produce audio; 2) Is it really that large? On my Lumia 950, the battery is virtually as wide as the headphone jack, and the camera lens protrudes from the main body of the phone already.

For those reasons, I'm not convinced a smaller headphone jack is particularly necessary.

[CamperBob2]

Phones don't need to be any thinner.

[tedunangst]

One might say the same about ethernet and wifi.

[ceejayoz]

Hell, Apple was first to ditch floppy drives, CD drives (some models), ethernet ports (some models), and Flash. They've got a pretty good track record of "we don't need this shit" lately.