More reports claim iPhone 7 will ditch headphone jack, add waterproofing

As others have said, batteries and recharging. Batteries die after a period of time.

bluetooth has a short range and if everyone were using it you'd have serious problems with the signal. Imagine everyone on a bus or an airport in short range trying to use their speakers, keyboards, ect all at the same time.

Are they going to start encrypting your Bluetooth signal as well. Wireless means less secure. Trade-offs you have to consider for something with no benefits.


you still avoid the issue of tech moving inevitably forward.
 
Not to mention the audio quality of bluetooth headphones are mediocre compared to wired headphones.

99% of the people out there don't care about quality of their audio streams. The proof in that is MP3 tech and especially the low a$$ bitrate that Apple has used and continues to use in their iTunes offerings. There have been a few audiophile offerings for mobile devices and they have fallen flat on their faces. Unless you make it dirt cheap people will ignore it and most people can't even tell the difference between 96 and 192 bit let alone 320 unless you are listening it to a very well built driver set. With the increase in storage size over the last decade especially I think they should just go back to wav and ditch mp3.
 
99% of the people out there don't care about quality of their audio streams. The proof in that is MP3 tech and especially the low a$$ bitrate that Apple has used and continues to use in their iTunes offerings. There have been a few audiophile offerings for mobile devices and they have fallen flat on their faces. Unless you make it dirt cheap people will ignore it and most people can't even tell the difference between 96 and 192 bit let alone 320 unless you are listening it to a very well built driver set. With the increase in storage size over the last decade especially I think they should just go back to wav and ditch mp3.

You really don't know much about the audiophile world if you think there are only a handful of devices. There's a reason Audio-Technica's ATH-m50x is currently more popular than beats and there's a reason there are hundreds of portable DAC/AMPs.

I think it's a bit funny, you completely contradicted your previous post.

"you still avoid the issue of tech moving inevitably forward.'

If you openly admit that audio quality isn't even as good as what we have now that you realize the "deal with it" attitude doesn't work most of the time. Just ask microsoft.
 
so you still aren't addressing the issue of how tech moves forward. when WAP enabled phones came out they were all garbage for years. people whine and moaned and complained, but it was a bridge to what we have as today's smartphone offerings. It is what it is.
Well, you're assuming that this particular tech actually needs to go forward. If Apple is just generating a need for more adapters and accessories, while introducing faux obsolescence, they're moving the tech forward for their gain, not yours.

I had a wired alarm system in my home. All I had to do was hit one button and head for the door. The new wireless system which replaced it, requires 9 touches across 4 screens to accomplish the same goal. There's that tech, marching forward for "convenience's sake".
 
The stupidest idea Apple ever had if this is true. We don't need a THINNER phone! I may abandon Apple if they go this route or at least there is no chance of me buying an iPhone 7.
 
99% of the people out there don't care about quality of their audio streams. The proof in that is MP3 tech and especially the low a$$ bitrate that Apple has used and continues to use in their iTunes offerings. There have been a few audiophile offerings for mobile devices and they have fallen flat on their faces. Unless you make it dirt cheap people will ignore it and most people can't even tell the difference between 96 and 192 bit let alone 320 unless you are listening it to a very well built driver set. With the increase in storage size over the last decade especially I think they should just go back to wav and ditch mp3.
MP3 may still be around for the sake of communities without high speed internet and generally, anyone that values high quality audio has a set of FLAC somewhere (I use a separate app for playing FLAC). iPhone's Bluetooth runs on SBC only, so I'm not sure how high quality is the stream going to be.

That aside, I don't think slimming down the phone by removing the port and no improvement in battery life is any means of technological advancement. Reminds me of the days of Sony memory stick days when everyone else uses a SD card. My feel, it's a pointless race and an excuse to sell an adaptor for $30 to the large group of users.

Anyway, if I have to use Bluetooth, I don't need to use iPhone specifically. Any other phone allows me to CHOOSE if I want to use my wired or wireless earphones. What will I be missing if I move away from Apple? The ever buggy iOS 9. :)
 
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