[megakwood]

To paraphrase Doc Brown, "Where we're going, we don't need headphone jacks"

Airpods are awesome, and they'll only get better. A cord running to your pocket is seriously a thing of the past, and all these posts will age terribly. Just like the serial port ones, the floppy ones, the cd rom ones...

And for all this noise, what I can't for the life of my understand is why these people can't just use a god damn adapter. They make high quality DAC ones, too. Just leave it attached to your headphones. What's the damn problem? The rest of us get a better, thinner phone.

[bambax]

Did you read peapicker's comment before posting your own? (It's older by an hour). Some people need wired headphones and if the port is used for something else then they can't.

Also it's completely untrue that the iPhone is "thinner" without a headphone jack; this guy added a jack to an iPhone 7 without external modification:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfbE3_uAMA

The video has over 6M views.

Apple doesn't care much about their users -- but it's hard to blame them, since said users are apparently happy with it.

[AnthonBerg]

Is the modified phone as waterproof as before?

[justtopost]

I assume not, but a factory designed one would be. Several of my phones are waterproof and have 3.5mm plugs.

[AnthonBerg]

I would so very much like to know how the design and engineering analysis was. For the original.

From my limited knowledge it certainly seems easier to make it waterproof without a headphone jack.

[speedplane]

The annoying thing about wireless headphones is that it’s yet another thing you need to charge. We need truly easy wireless charging to make it effortless.

[KozmoNau7]

Great, so now I've got a dongle attached to my earphones. How about the PA or stereo I need to plug in to, in order to stream music?

Should I just always carry a spare dongle in my pocket? Or rely on everyone having the appropriate Lightning/USB-C dongle already? Or maybe just use the industry standard 3.5mm jack, because it always Just Works.

[blattimwind]

> What's the damn problem? The rest of us get a better, thinner phone.

If you bothered to look at the specs, you'd have noticed this not to be true.

[lifeformed]

It's not thinner. Maybe by a few microns?