Apple is just calendar week aside from unveil the new iPhone 7 ( or will it be theiPhone 6se ? ? ? ) , with one highly controversial variety : it ’ll be shipping the handset outsans headphone jack . Not so much a rumor as it is an unconfirmed reality at this full stop , removing the 3.55 mm headphone port mean those of us with expensive earpiece or earbuds are SOL – include , it turns out , Apple ’s co - laminitis Steve Wozniak .
In an interview withThe Australian Financial Review , Wozniak wax poetic about his cushy earbuds , which are customs ear implants that " fit in so comfortably , I can sleep on them and everything . And they only come out with one kind of jack , so I ’ll have to go through the adapter . "
We feel your pain , Woz . Apple ’s decision will undoubtedly result in a ton of toss out electronics ( not so smashing for the environment ) , forcing consumers to dole out cash for new Bluetooth earpiece or clumsy adaptor . " That ’s going to click off a set of people , " said Wozniak .
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Indeed , The Verge called hit the phone jackass " user - uncongenial and stupid . " There ’s evenan online petitionover 300,000 signatures secure to # SaveJack , and we for sure haveour own list of demands for the new iPhone 7 .
Wozniak ’s ailment about the switch to wireless is specifically one that medicine buff will relate to : the sound quality just is n’t the same . " I would not utilize Bluetooth … I do n’t like wireless . I have cars where you’re able to plug away in the music , or go through Bluetooth , and Bluetooth just sounds so flat for the same music , " he toldAFR .
Ultimately , Woz threw some tint at his former companionship , which he co - found with BFF Steve Jobs and left in 1985 : Apple either needs to step up its Bluetooth biz or keep the sea dog . " If there ’s a Bluetooth 2 that has higher bandwidth and good lineament , that sounds like real medicine , I would use it . But we ’ll see . Apple is good at moving towards the hereafter , and I like to follow that . "
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