I thought I would address some of your comments. First of all, there is a lot of legacy hardware out there. Having spent $300 for beats, I am not about to go out and re-spend for a lightning version. As for the adapter - have you seen how clunky it is? Large, clunky, losable. Same as their wireless earbugs which - I hope the people who buy them don't lose one. That is why I am counting on Mophie to do Apple's job for them, and include the audio jack in their battery case. The other legacy hardware I have is an FM modulator for the car. I know a lot of people don't care about audio quality, but bluetooth isn't high quality audio. I use the jack for the modulator to get audio into my FM radio. Still not ideal, but in a car without an auxiliary input, it is better than bluetooth. Thirdly, I use older iphones as test equipment. You can get oscilloscope, frequency generator, even spectrum analyzer apps for the iphone, many of them free. So I really need that jack! They just deleted it for waterproofness - how come their competitors with headphone jacks are waterproof? That excuse just doesn't fly. Neither does the thickness excuse - the 7 is only slightly thinner than the 6, so that wasn't the real reason, either. Digital music isn't the reason - you think battery life in an iphone is bad, try battery life in headphones with microcontrollers, D/A converters, then power amps. They will drink battery life, unless they use Lithium Ion again, which means you will have to use a charger for your headphones. How many chargers are people going to tolerate? My theory - Apple wants to put third parties out of the headphone business. They want to put out their own Beats and other quality headphones. Well, lets see them for sale FIRST. Or force everybody to use the really poor quality earbuds. Newsflash - 200 Hz is not bass. 20 Hz is bass. No earbud will ever get to 20 Hz. That is why some of us use Beats. Because the apple earbuds that came with the phone are poor audio quality. I predict - really bad sales for the iPhone 7. And that the headphone jack is the reason, and it WILL be back in future models.
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