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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by dTal on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:34AM (#15191659)
The iPhone 6s and the iPhone 7 are exactly the same thickness. There is even a big gap where the headphone jack was, that the author used to retrofit his own. The decision to remove it was not driven by here-and-now technical requirements.
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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by djrogers on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:09AM (#15192523)
> There is even a big gap where the headphone jack was

Not really, there was a little bit of space near the old jack, and he removed a critical part of the barometer to make the rest of the space. If you're removing parts you can't exactly claim that it was empty space.

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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by jsjohnst on Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:21PM (#15193236)
See my reply[0] above and point out on the image where this big gap is...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15193211

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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by coldtea on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:07AM (#15192503)
That's one consideration. The other consideration is what they DO with that thickness (e.g. re: battery, other electronics taking the extra space, etc).
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