Know your mobile: Apple made waves back in 2016 when it completely ditched the 3.5mm headphone jack on its iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models; the company had decided that the time for wired connections had finally passed and that a tangle-free future was to be enjoyed by all. Predictably, there were cries of dissent from within the industry, and companies like Samsung and OnePlus proudly retained the jack in their flagship devices, using it as yet another stick with which to beat Apple.
“We won’t abandon your beloved wired connection,” was the message – and for a while, it worked.
However, the stay of execution for the 3.5mm audio socket has finally ended. Last week, Apple lifted the lid on its latest iPhones, none of which come with a headphone jack. That was totally expected of course – Apple has been socket-free since the aforementioned iPhone 7 – but the fact that it has now culled the iPhone SE and iPhone 6S, the last two phones it had in production which featured an audio socket, means that the company’s smartphones are now totally focused on a wireless audio world..