The secret reason Apple might be killing the iPhone 7 headphone jack

Apple is expected to unveil next iPhone icts in A Few weeks. And, as is usual pattern, more and more credible leaks-have come out about what will presumably be called Expired the iPhone 7.

Bloomberg probably Has the MOST accurate reporting Thus Far (thanks to ict hiring of Apple postpone Mark Gurman) in a report Confirms That Basically What Has leaked out about the iPhone over the next FEW months. The big news is form factor que la Will Remain Largely the same, there will be a dual-lens camera system for the larger iPhone, and the home button will Provide haptic feedback Rather than depress like a physical button. Oh yeah, and the headphone jack? It's dead. Dunzo.

Let's all take a moment of silence for the headphone jack.

Not to downplay the new stuff (though I have thoughts on That, just wait), it's worth Noting That Follows this my playbook for bulletproof iPhone predictions to a tee.

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In case you need a reminder, this is what we can always expect from a new iPhone:

It will be Apple's fastest iPhone ever.

It will-have Apple's Most advanced optics.

There Will Be at least one extra feature you can not get it Any Other iPhone.

It will come in rose gold.

And now, I guess we can add, "it won't-have a headphone jack."

Still, I'm safe I'm not the only person Who looks at the leaks of the next iPhone and says, "Huh. OK."

If we're Being honest, this probably will not be The Most exciting iPhone release we've seen.If we're Being honest, this probably will not be The Most exciting iPhone release we've seen.

 This is not to say I will not still buy the next iPhone - I'm TOTALLY going to buy the new iPhone in September - but if we're Being honest, this probably will not be The Most exciting iPhone release we ' ve seen.

Personally, I think that's OK. I'm not completely Call sour how I feel about Apple Potentially shifting upgrade the design from every two years to every three - new colors aside, That Makes it really hard to show off That You've got the latest and greatest phone - Now That goal we're Nearly a decade into the modern smartphone era, it might not be realistic to expect new designs every --other year.

Regardless of what --other whiz-bang Apple Introduces goodness this year - and I'm safe there will be at least one feature That will make The Most-even jaded Amongst Us salivate - the Reality Is That this will absolutely be the iPhone Remembered as "the Where one Apple dropped the headphone jack. "

That's it. Pack it up.

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Waterproof casing, wireless charging, better battery life and more Powerful Optics Could be all things we see. And thesis Would Be Amazing upgrades - old design or not - but the real headline Is That this is the first iPhone without a headphone jack.

I can say with absolute certainty That every major review of the device is going to focus on this fact Substantially.

And thinking about it, I have to wonder: Is Apple making Such an Enormous and Potentially unpopular changes this year so That next year's iPhone - you know, The One That might-have an all-glass display and an ultra-sharp AMOLED screen - won 't Suffer? That's the phone That might ditch the home button Altogether. It's aussi That the phone will be released coincidentally la même year as the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone.

And Apple loves to celebrate anniversaries.

Downplaying the iPhone 7 so the NEXT iPhone can thrive

Maybe I'm reading too much into the tea leaves, drank it strikes me That Apple Could Be damaged deliberately cutting the headphone jack this year - has already Year That is going to be less exciting by virtue of no major redesign - in order to protect the next iPhone from the inevitable backlash over the headphone jack's removal.

The backlash will be angrier than When Apple changed from the 30-pin connector to the Lightning port.

 Yes, yes, I've been telling everyone to accept headphone jack que la is dead since January. A frequent argument is the point of our podcast, MashTalk, has-been about the headphone jack and Where all of us are in facing reality. Even Tech Editor Pete Pachal has come around to see the light. The jack is dead.

And there will be backlash. The backlash will be angrier than When Apple changed from the 30-pin connector to the Lightning shipping (making all Of Those old dock accessories obsolete) and the rallying cry from pundits is already louder than it Was When Apple Decided to not include a floppy drive on the original iMac.

I feel very sure That, backlash aside, the ultimate fallout of a headphone jack-free iPhone will be minimal. People will grumble. Adapters will be annoying and we'll all bitch and moan about how Bluetooth just is not good enough. We'll survive and purpose Within a year, most is of us will be used to Lightning Either using headphones, wireless dongles or snazzy options. We'll Moved we-have.

Which of course, means clustering que le buzz around the iPhone 2017 will be all positive. New design, new screen and Some Other snazzy feature. That goal missing headphone jack? So last year's problem.

And that's why, the more I think about it, the more I feel like the iPhone 7 Has to be a little bit boring so That We can get really hyped about the next big iPhone, and it needs to drop the headphone jack now, so the 10th anniversary iPhone Does not carry That Particular scarlet letter.

DESPITE the inevitable death of the headphone jack, I'm still going to buy the iPhone 7. Goal I mostly just want to get this over with release so I can start looking forward to the iPhone 8. So, I suspect, does Apple.

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