As the rumors that the next iPhone will drop the 3.5mm headphone jack have intensified, I’ve been keeping tabs on the specific argument that Daring Fireball’s John Gruber made yesterday: that removing ...

Despite the trend of removing headphone jacks from mobile devices, Apple’s M4 MacBook Pro, even in its latest iteration, ...

In a Barclays research memo obtained by AppleInsider, the multinational banking and financial services company claims Apple will replace the headphone jack with a second speaker. This would give the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Joining the fight against the innocent 3.5mm connector Joining the fight against the innocent 3.5mm connector The ...

Apple isn’t the only company looking to remove the last vestiges of the analog world from our smartphones and tablets. Intel apparently wants in on the action too. The chip maker recently talked about ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Yesterday, Google ...

I’m not thrilled that Apple’s decided to kill the headphone jack. The company’s decision to exclude the venerable port from the iPhone 7 is likely to be a pain in the short term. It also has some ...

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In the smartphone industry, we have seen a running debate over the old fashioned headphone jack for a couple of years now. Many flagship devices have decided to ditch the standard 3.5 mm jack, while ...

Now that the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus (well, technically) are on sale, we didn't have to wait too long to see the devices torn down to bits. Naturally, we were especially interested in the part ...

Apple, of course, has a history for leaving pieces of tech behind before the competition, and we’re all better because of it. Remember the Sony floppy disc? How about the CD/DVD drive? How about VGA ...