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Right, which makes the phone easier to build and thus saves money. There's no getting around the fact that money is the #1 reason they have started omitting the
by olyjohn 6y ago
Right, which makes the phone easier to build and thus saves money. There's no getting around the fact that money is the #1 reason they have started omitting the jack. Apple has no other reason to leave out a feature that adds a convenient redundancy to a common use-case. There's literally no other negative to leave out the jack other than cost.
- throwaway07650 6y ago> There's literally no other negative to leave out the jack other than cost. I believe there is. When designing a product, one always operates within a given set of contraints. Removing one of the constraints of the design makes it easier to hit the rest of the objectives. You might argue that easier design = reduced costs but IMO that would be too loose of a definition of "costs" in this case. Consider the lower end of the market: budget phones have cheaper cameras, cheaper screens, cheaper processors - why? Because these are indeed good targets for cost cutting. They all have headphone jacks though. To me, that suggests that cost is not the issue here.
- mikepurvis 6y agoBut none of those ultra budget phones are trying to hit the weight or form-factor targets that Apple is.