08-09-2016 18:32 via theverge.com

The biggest winner from removing the headphone jack is Apple

If you take Apple’s word for it, removing the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 was a pure expression of its desire for technological progress. "Some people have asked why we would remove the analog headphone jack from the iPhone," Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing chief, said yesterday. "It really comes down to one word: courage. The courage to move on to do something new that betters all of us."
Already Apple’s defenders have been echoing that sentiment. The headphone jack is c
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