Will Apple drop the headphone jack on iPhone 7?

It is never too early for a juicy Apple iPhone 7 rumor and today we have a whopper: Apple might drop the venerable 3.5mm headphone jack in an effort to build a thinner iPhone, a move that would disrupt the $8 billion headphone industry.

The rumor, from Japanese Apple blog Macotakara cites a "reliable source" claiming Apple will remove the audio jack in an effort to shave a millimeter off the iPhone's thickness.

The idea of a slimmer iPhone 7 is not new. A few months ago, KGI Securities' analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote a report saying the next iPhone would be almost a full millimeter thinner than the current iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. Back then, it was thought Apple would rely on the resiliency of 7000 Series Aluminum, which showing up in this year's "S" models, to prevent bending on a thinner device. Read more...