The iPhone 7 has no headphone jack

Apple has confirmed that the iPhone 7 does not include a headphone jack. In its absence, owners will have to use Lightning or Bluetooth headphones, both of which will be more expensive than a pair that ends in the traditional 3.5mm connector.

There are a lot of things to feel about this, and many of them have already been felt on this website: such as here, where my colleague Vlad Savov lays out the benefits of Lightning headphones, and here, where our editor-in-chief gets mad about proprietary formats.

A quick rundown of some of the positives and negatives of this move. The positives:


  • [REMINDER: definitely don't publish this without finding even a single legitimate upside]

The negatives:

  • Most existing headphones are...

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