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Apple he will spell the end of the jack on its future smartphones? According to information from the Japanese site Macotakara that specialized sites in new technologies take for reliable usually Apple brand could do without the traditional input jack for the iPhone 7 . The next phone US computer group would replace the 3.5mm input jack, an international standard in place since the late 70′s, which allowed hitherto to connect headphones or a headset with a Lightning connector, which allows recharging the smartphone since the iPhone 5.

A thinner iPhone waterproof?

This shift could present some benefits for the manufacturer. The Japanese blog first advance aesthetic reason to justify this suppression. Apple could fine-tune the iPhone a millimeter compared to the 6s iPhone. The iPhone’s case would then pass below the 6.9 mm thick Apple record on the subject held by the iPhone that the iPhone 6 6s could not match with its 7.1 mm.

While most manufacturers offer a watertight smartphones, this would also allow the group to Tim Cook solve the problem of sealing (and dust accumulation) related to the current headphone jack. The company has also filed a patent to improve the resistance of the iPhone water.

Another source of revenue for Apple?

On the consumer side, one major drawback we see emerge. Failing jack, it becomes essential to have a headphone socket lightning, a Bluetooth headset or an adapter to listen to music with the iPhone 7. This necessarily induce additional cost , unless Apple does not offer an adapter with the iPhone 7.

For its part, Apple could take the opportunity to draw on the experience in the matter of his Beats subsidiary, acquired 3,000,000,000 dollars in 2014, and enter the ground floor in the audio equipment market by marketing its own headset and its own headphones.

The California company and diversify a little more its product while controlling denser and more musical ecosystem, which revolves around the moment of its streaming service Apple Music, launched this year, and its album service or purchase songs to iTunes unity.

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