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Re:More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jac... by wlesieutre on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:49PM (#10852094)
Yep, I'm assuming it comes with Lightning earbuds and if you want anything else you're on your own.

Bluetooth earbuds would be a pretty hard sell if they come out and say "We're changing to Lightning for better audio quality. Here, have some bluetooth earbuds with worse audio than your old wired ones."

EDIT: How small can you make a decent DAC anyway? All the audio ones I've seen are way too big to put on an adapter cable, but that might be driven by the optical and RCA connectors more than the conversion hardware.

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Re:More rumors that Apple might drop the 3.5mm headphone jac... by jkestner on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:31PM (#10859302)
Right, I think it's more likely they do Lightning earbuds. 1) reinforces the concept, 2) doesn't have the fuss of another thing to charge, 3) Apple can do them cheaper than anyone else if they don't have to pay a licensing fee.
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