>Apple removes headphone jack on iPhone 7 so people are forced to either go wireless or buy headphones with the lightning adaptor
>Fast forward to next spring and Samsung announces the Galaxy S8, in which case they will remove the headphone jack too and make it so you have to buy headphones for USB-C or go wireless
>Other phone companies start following suit and make headphones for USB-C/Lightning
>Spreads to other devices such as computers and handhelds
>3.5mm headphones are made completely redundant by the year 2020
Face it /g/, Apple will have the last laugh in all of this.
>>56481633
>people are forced
The horror. They're lining us up to buy ours right now. They've got machine guns, anon.
Its just a cycle. Eventually lightning will be old too. Then you will see this moment repeat. Loops are not only for mathematica.
>>56481633
>Spreads to other devices such as computers
No. Computer mainboards still had parallel ports decades after they stopped making the printers for with them.
3.5 is here to stay.
>>56481633
Or they just use the adapter included in the box.
>>56481633
>advancing technology for the purpose of planned obsolescence
Thanks Apple.
>>56482208
Adapter lets you use your 3.5 headphones till they rot away.