One of the major talking points surrounding the oft-rumored “iPhone 7,” is Apple’s expected change to the way owners will listen to music on their device. And now an Apple audio partner is stirring the pot a bit.
And doing that without actually talking about Apple directly at all. According to a report from Business Insider, and citing Cirrus Logic’s CEO, Jason Rhode, during a conference call, companies are considering including noise-canceling headphones in the box of their future phones. This is an interesting tidbit from a guy who would clearly have a good look at the landscape of where headphones are at, and where they might be in the future, so it’s certainly an interesting comment considering all the rumors surrounding Apple’s plans for the iPhone 7.
(The text in the brackets was included byBusiness Insider.)
“There are definitely people considering putting [noise-cancelling headphones with Cirrus tech] in box … anytime somebody talks about adding content inside a box, inside the box it ships with the phone, you can imagine the agonizing that goes into any additional micro-penny that gets added to the box.”
Apple is rumored to be dropping the 3.5mm headphone jack from the iPhone 7, which would then force iPhone owners to use the Lightning port to plug in wired headphones, or use wireless headphones via Bluetooth connectivity. There does seem to be confusion on whether or not Apple will include Lightning-equipped headphones in the box with the next iPhone, if they do indeed drop the 3.5mm headphone jack, but considering Apple has included its own in-ear headphones in the iPhone box for quite some time, that suggestion seems strange.
Interestingly enough, it has been reported that while Apple will include headphones that connect to the iPhone via the Lightning port, they might not actually be noise-canceling variants. Those same reports suggest that Apple would sell those headphones separately. And, indeed, another rumor surfaced that suggests Apple is building truly wireless headphones, so pretty much every option has been covered by rumors at this point.
Rhodes comments were aimed at the Android market, but it’s not unlikely that these things relate to Apple in one way or another, especially considering Cirrus is a major partner for Apple.
What do you make of all this?
[via Business Insider]
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