Apple's iPhone 12 will not come with wired headphones in the box.The omission comes as Apple's wireless AirPods have exploded in popularity in recent years and the company moves to make its packaging more sustainable.Apple will no longer include its wired EarPod headphones in the box with its new iPhones, starting with the iPhone 12.
Apple executive Lisa Jackson announced the change Tuesday afternoon after announcing its new smartphone lineup.It's a major change from Apple's history of including wired headphones with its wireless devices, going back to the iPod and continuing through to 2019's iPhone 11. Even when Apple dropped the headphone jack from its flagship phones in 2016, the company continued including a version of its wired EarPods in the box with a lightning plug.
The growth of AirPods, along with the Apple Watch, has made the iPhone maker a leader in the wearable tech market. Apple accounted for 34.2% of the worldwide market for wearable devices in the second quarter of 2020, outpacing rivals like Huawei, Xiaomi, Samsung, and Fitbit, according to the That growth will no doubt continue, if not accelerate, as Apple fazes out wired headphones from its flagship iPhone models.Your morning cheat sheet to get you caught up on what you need to know in tech. Sign up to 10 Things in Tech You Need to Know Today.By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Business Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our
If a customer buys an iPhone, and now ALSO gets the AirPods, and the MagSafe charger, that would be 3 separate packages - would you then be really be saving the environment?
Every iPhone user has like at least 4 pairs of them
Apple is becoming weird
Impressive
But they are selling AirPods. Yours for just a few hundred dollars 💸
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