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What are they going to do with the 3.5mm audio jacks on Macs? So Apple removes the 3.5mm audio jack from the phone & adds a lightening port to the mac?

It makes me imagine how nice it would have been to ditch both the 3.5mm & lightening port & replace it with a USB-C port across product lines.

Obviously that would have been even more drastic in many ways, but I can't help but think that they have painted themselves into a strange corner.



I wouldn't mind a lighting port instead of the 3.5 mm jack on my mac. My last macbook, the 3.5mm jack was the one thing that failed, surprisingly. It had a tiny switch inside to go between optical and electrical, and that switch would get stuck in the optical position. Basically I couldn't use headphones half the time.


> What are they going to do with the 3.5mm audio jacks on Macs

I imagine the audio industry would revolt if it was removed.


Imagine a world where they opened up the lightening spec originally, that that was the USB-C standard.


> What are they going to do with the 3.5mm audio jacks on Macs

I imagine the audio industry would revolt.




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