Apple officially scraps the headphone jack for cordless EarPods with ‘Lightning’ charging

We’ve speculated for weeks about whether Apple would actually kill the headphone jack. Today, we have the answer — it would. While a surprise to some, it’s more of an expected move by those in the tech industry. We’ve seen it coming and reacted with varying levels of trust that this decision was correct, but ultimately we’ve accepted the headphone jack’s fate. It’s Apple, after all, and the company has a history of killing things that we’ve grown accustomed to; see: physical buttons on cell phones and CD slots on laptops. The move to proprietary charging technology may not be a surprise — Apple…

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