The Independent, UK: Apple is expected to remove the headphone adapter with its next iPhone, leaving people unable to use traditional headphones with their new mobiles.
The company famously – or infamously – dropped the headphone jack from its handsets with the iPhone 7. But at the time it promised that nothing much would change for people with traditional headphones, since the box would come with an adapter that would allow them to be plugged into the charging port.
Now that adapter is being removed, according to an analyst report first spotted by Macrumors. As such, people will be required to stop using their traditional headphones, or get an adapter of their own.
Apple has been clear that it is embracing a wireless future, expecting people to use Bluetooth headphones rather than plug them in. With the iPhone 7, it released wireless ear buds of its own, and made clear statements that it saw them as the future of listening. But that decision upset the many iPhone users who wanted to keep using their traditional headphones, which plugged in using a jack.
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