ceremorphosis

There’s been a lot of criticism about the recessed earbud/headphone jack on the iPhone. I believe that it’s not a matter of aesthetics, as some assume, but engineering a solution to relieve strain on the port and the internals. While this does render my Shure E2Cs useless without an extender, I’d rather pick up an earbud-microphone set than do something to the phone.

Edit: Looks like the guys over at iFixit agree: “Apple did this to reduce the strain on the narrow metal jack when you yank on the headphones. With this design, the hard plastic cable jacket absorbs most of the impact.”