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It took 147 years but we finally got rid of the headphone jack in favor of superior solutions like 'sell more adapters'. :blobcatgoogly:

@Polychrome TBF you're "supposed" to just support . You can also theoretically charge a device wirelessly through and use an adapter to connect to wired headphones or earbuds.

I always find it funny though that nobody points out that got rid of the headphone jack on the because they wanted to make their phones thinner and thinner and the headphone jack was getting in the way of that lol

According to apple, an iPhone 13 is 7.65mm thick.

Wow, that's pretty thin. Nobody could make a device thinner than that with a headphone jack.

Well, I mean except apple. Which made the iPod touch with a headphone jack that's 6.1mm thick.
casey is remote

@sj_zero @Polychrome They were cutting it very, very close.

But I guess they gave up on the thinness craze because the thinnest stock they sell now, the , is 7.3mm thick.

apple.com/iphone/compare/?mode

@realcaseyrollins @sj_zero I've been mostly hearing excuses related to increasing the phone's ability to survive underwater submersion but yup, this was all about the thinness craze.

Well that and pushing people to buy Bluetooth headphones and earpieces like the ones Apple just so happens to be selling.
I think it's more about the last one.

And hey, I am wearing a Bluetooth ear bud right now, they've gotten a lot better.

But I also use wired earphones a lot

@Polychrome @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero The submersion thing is also bs; my phone had a jack and goes under just fine.

@doephin @Polychrome @sj_zero Same, I previously had the which has water resistance and it had a headphone jack