Apple SVP Phil Schiller wants you to know there's a $39 fix for your iPhone 7 headphone jack worries
Upset with Apple over the missing headphone jack in the new iPhones? Wondering how will you be able to listen to music while charging your phone? The company wants you to know there’s a $39 fix for that.
Apple said it was a “courageous” move to remove the legacy headphone jack from the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, and that it won’t render your wired headphones and speakers useless. It insists that there’s a $39 iPhone Lightning Dock to solve your problem. One of the most notable things about the new iPhones that Apple unveiled on Wednesday is the headphone jack -- or lack thereof, to be more precise. Addressing people’s concern, Apple’s Senior Vice President Phil Schiller insisted at the company’s event that it was time to put the 100-year-plus audio standard to bed. But people like Zaheen Hafzer are panicking over this change. 25-year-old India-born Hafzer wonders how he would listen to music when his iPhone takes a charging break. He wanted an explanation from the Apple man himself -- and his attempt didn’t go unnoticed.
Schiller responded to Hafzer, and tried to explain how he has adopted to the very same change. Shiller said he uses the AirPods, also unveiled on Wednesday, to listen to music when his iPhone 7 Plus is charging. It allows him to freely “move around,” he said. Schiller realizes that not everybody would pick up the $159 AirPods from the store, so he pointed Hafzer to the company’s cheaper offering -- the Apple Lightning Dock, which costs $39 (that's for the white version; other colors cost $49), and lets people listen to music even when they are charging their iPhone.
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“I hope that helps,” Schiller hopes. At least Hafzer found it helpful. “It is a valid response,” he told Mashable India. Not everybody is as flexible with Apple's decision. The legacy headphone jack has been around for over 100 years, and has been the de facto audio port on billions of TVs, mobile phones, tablets, laptops that have shipped over the past decades. How people will adjust to this remains to be seen. To make things somewhat comforting, Apple is giving the EarPods with Lightning Connector and a Lightning to 3.5mm Jack Adapter with the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Though if you lose that adapter, you will have to pay the company $9 for a new one.
