The headphone jack could be sent into obsolescence

IT’S just a rumour at the moment. There’s talk that Apple are thinking of getting rid of the headphone jack or at least changing the size of it.

The headphone jack could be sent into obsolescence

The headphone jack — in case you think I’m being overfamiliar and calling you jack, jack — is the bit on the end of your headphones. It measures 3.5mm in diameter. According to the story, if Apple can make a thinner jack then they can make a thinner iPhone. Apple have always dreamed of a thinner iPhone since the late Steve Jobs memorably challenged designers to make a Phone so thin you’d mistake it for an After Eight mint and eat it. (You may not be able to find any evidence he did say this but you also can’t prove he didn’t. It’s called a Trump-ism.)

The story of the jack hitting the road will be one of many rumours about Apple products. This one may be nothing more than noise but the way the story gained legs around the world was less due to its likelihood but more, I think, because it appealed to a vague fear we all have our vague fears about the future: Obsolescence.

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