Apple’s iPhone 7 will almost definitely be missing a headphone jack

Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: APPL) isn’t afraid to push the technological envelope. Say goodbye to your headphone jack.

Time reports the company could eliminate the standard 3.5mm headphone jack from the next edition of its iPhone, the iPhone 7, instead opting for bluetooth connected headphones. If bluetooth is not your thing, wired headphones also could be connected though the Lightening cable port, but that eliminates charging the device at the same time.
 
Fortune magazine’s resident Apple expert Philip Elmer-DeWitt summed up the pros and cons best, saying: “Is Apple really prepared to render obsolete countless third-party headphones, hundreds of millions of its own white earbuds, and those clever magstrip credit-card readers (like Square’s) that slot into the port?

“It wouldn’t be the first time Apple had abandoned a popular technological standard in the name of a higher purpose — like shaving another millimeter off the already anorexic iPhone 6S. Remember when the Mac lost the floppy disk? The CD-ROM? The DVD? Firewire? USB Type-A?”

It seems, only time will tell.

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