06-06-2014, 07:17 AM
So maybe it just means Apple is considering offering a high end set of earphones that use Thunderbolt in addition to offerings from itself and everybody else that will continue to use the traditional jack?
There isn't really anything signalling Apple is going to throw the baby out with the bathwater by dumping the traditional connector. Rejiggering their entire product line, losing a great chunk of sales in the process, just so they can sell a relative handful of style victim headphones? Doesn't seem very likely.
This.
Just as the 30-pin connector was used as a Line Out to bypass the headphone amp, I think if anything, Apple would do something similar with the Lightning port in addition to the standard offering of the 3.5mm jack.
There isn't really anything signalling Apple is going to throw the baby out with the bathwater by dumping the traditional connector. Rejiggering their entire product line, losing a great chunk of sales in the process, just so they can sell a relative handful of style victim headphones? Doesn't seem very likely.
This.
Just as the 30-pin connector was used as a Line Out to bypass the headphone amp, I think if anything, Apple would do something similar with the Lightning port in addition to the standard offering of the 3.5mm jack.