Do you need a headphone socket?
By Max
@hawkida (51)
London, England
January 6, 2016 7:21am CST
Years ago someone in my office got a new mac. It didn't have a floppy disk drive and we wondered how he would cope as we couldn't easily put things on CDs for him.
He coped fine. It was the time that email surged and we shared things with him that way. Later the CD drive became a DVD drive but then suddenly they weren't available any more.
And we coped because everything went online.
The case on my phone partially obscures the headphone socket, making it hard to use. That's fine, I use bluetooth headphones anyway so I don't really use it.
But the idea of it not being there is odd. I don't like that idea one bit. But why? Familiarity? Couldn't say...
Yet rumours coming out of China suggest that the next iPhone to be launched (in September or so, most likely) will have no headphone socket.
Do you need yours?
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@topffer (42156)
• France
6 Jan 16
Yes, I will stop to use a headphone socket when you will get the same audio quality with a bluetooth headset than with a jack connected headset (I am not speaking of earpods, but of real in ear headsets). For phone calls it is alright, but for music, it is definitely no. Each new iPhone is larger and thinner than the previous one. I understand that suppressing the headphone socket can help to make a phone thinner, but is it useful ?
