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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by macintux on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:39PM (#15194606)
Waterproof cases are often bulky, awkward to use, and ugly. Apple is always, always going to choose encouraging forward thinking (wireless) over supporting legacy technologies by adding bulky, awkward covers.
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Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China by rusk on Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:32PM (#15195431)
That's not true. They set the precedent for using the jack in mobile phones in the first place because "usability" - before the iPhone nearly all mobile phones had proprietary connectors.
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