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Plenty of other companies make or made IP68 waterproof phones with exposed headphone jacks. It's not an issue.

• ceejayoz 8y ago
  It's entirely possible that Apple doesn't like/trust the way their competitors approached waterproofing.
  • iainmerrick 8y ago
    Given all the many hardware problems Samsung has had -- exploding batteries!! -- if there was a flaw in their waterproofing don’t you think it would have been publicised by now? I haven’t heard any such reports. If doing it “the Sony way” would involve making the phone 1mm thicker, okay, I can easily believe Apple would decide they need to rip it up completely and do something different. Samsung and Sony phones aren’t exactly chunky, though. I would have been really happy with just a waterproof iPhone 6. Then maybe they could follow that up with an iPhone X with a headphone jack. Still do AirPods, just market them as a completely independent product.
  • amaccuish 8y ago
    iPhones still have charging ports and microphone holes. It's entirely possible to get ip68 with a headphone jack.