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hey what is up guys i'm kim Bhd here and we are barely into 2016 and we're already here in all kinds of rumors of course about the next iPhone the iPhone 7 wireless charging maybe OLED display possibly waterproof technology maybe know headphone jack ya know headphone jack in the iPhone 7 the 3 1/2 millimeter audio jack is one of the oldest IO ports that's still around like you don't see Ethernet that much anymore you don't see firewire anymore you don't see VGA anymore they used to be everywhere but every single device that's come out in the last couple years still has that audio jack it's kind of like the grandfather of legacy io all its older relatives have died firewire is dead but they've all been replaced by digital ports so HDMI Thunderbolt USB type-c but everything still has that I do Jack the iPhone has always been a struggle of fitting as much stuff as possible and as compact of a space as possible it's not even really about finis the iPod Touch is already like 10 percent thinner than the iPhone and it has an audio jack still it's not about the thinness but there's just so much stuff packed into an iPhone so this battle to fit more and more stuff into the iPhone every year has of course come with its sacrifices you probably all remember the 30-pin connector that every iPod and iPhone user had eventually Apple just decided it's too big we want to fit more stuff in the iPhone so they switched to the way smaller Thunderbolt cable to replace it it makes sense for Apple but that in typical Apple fashion screws over everyone who was using their previous stuff so now your Doc's don't work your battery cases don't work your chargers don't work all those accessories that plug into 30-pin don't work anymore but that was just the sacrifice Apple was willing to make to fit more stuff now you might not ever consider getting rid of the three-and-a-half millimeter audio jack it's kind of a staple everything is fine with it but when you consider how much space it actually takes up inside the chassis it actually takes up a lot and it's a big port so at that low a couple of millimeters can be pretty important so apple's logical solutions seems to point to iPhone 7 just get rid of the audio jack if you still want to plug in headphones you have to do that through the Lightning port now okay this seems insane because it kind of is but at least we can understand it a little from Apple's perspective and also there is also like tiny advantages to using lightning for audio because it's a digital port so the Apple could toss in some little software features here and there into the OS you could have minor things like your music app opening the second you plug your headphones in and lightning headphones could talk back to your iPhone maybe setting a certain EQ as soon as they're plugged in you could have noise cancelling headphones that instead of using their own battery taps into the iPhones power via lightning kind of the same way the Apple pencil taps into the iPad pro for batteries so in Apple's minds it makes sense to just kill off the big old auxiliary port and do everything through lightning of course in classic Apple fashion this again means temporarily screwing over everyone because who has lightning headphones looks like Philips actually makes a pair that you can buy right now but they're three hundred bucks so for everyone who doesn't want to buy a new pair of headphones Apple will probably sell a lightning to auxilary adapter for oh I don't know 50 bucks classic want to keep using the awesome pair of wired headphones that you already have adapter want to play audio in your car that doesn't have Bluetooth adapter want to charge your phone and listen to headphones at the same time unless there's two lightning ports in the next iPhone yeah adapter this is such an Apple thing to do at this point it doesn't actually really surprise me at this point the iPhone 7 is so far into development that there's no point in like arguing it it's probably already set in stone it's going to happen so at this point all we really can do is brace for it but also think about it people got mad when Apple got rid of the floppy drives in the first iMac but then we got used to it people got mad when Apple got rid of the CD Drive then we got used to it people got mad when Apple got rid of firewire and their high-end machines then we got used to it people got mad when Apple got rid of the 30-pin connector in favor of lightning in the iPhone then we got used to it so people are going to get mad if / when Apple gets rid of the audio jack in their iPhone but they'll get used to it if I have the choice obviously I would of the next iPhone be a full three millimeters thicker it would keep the audio jack it would have a bigger battery it would have bigger speakers etc but you know that's not up to me and I'm not the only one who thinks this to people plenty of people have had this idea but there's been this trend going towards thinner phones and that's just the way Apple does things just kind of funny that the company that brought us the iPod might be the first to get rid of the audio jack something to think about thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace