Will you buy the next iPhone even if it has no headphone jack?

Will you buy the next iPhone even if it has no headphone jack? - 1

Nope, never

Yeah

No, but I haven't bought any of the previous ones.

Never have bought one of their products, never will.

They plan on using the lightning port, thats a huge upgrade over the headphone jack. Much thinner and gains back space inside the iphone for other things. Just like when they got rid of the old pin chargers, they do things to upgrade for the future, there's a reason…

If my wife wants one especially if it comes unlocked for all US carriers including Google Fi, like another person answering I have seen blog posts about them making a smaller earbud jack.

Yes. Don't really use it anyway so that change doesn't affect me.

No. Never cared for Apple's proprietary hardware to begin with. I prefer open source where there are industry standards. If they drop the headphone jack, their will be a huge backlash. The headphone jack is the industry standard on every device around the entire world. And it has worked perfectly fine for passing true CD quality sound.

If Apple uses the Lightning connector, the problem becomes how do you charge your phone at the same time while listening to music. And how do you use your already perfectly good working headphones that have a headphone jack. The rumor is that Apple would force you to buy an expensive adapter to utilize existing headphones.

This would be wonderful as now do you get to pay a whole lot extra on a proprietary adapter that no one else would have to buy using any other phone, but you now get to lug that adapter around wherever you go.

As you can see it would completely defeat the purpose of having a thinner iPhone. And that alone has already caused the iPhone to have the worst battery life of nearly any smartphone.

Android phones offer substantially better battery life already.