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UMass students react to new specs following release of Apple’s iPhone 7

The most controversial is Apple’s rollout of a smartphone without a traditional headphone jack, and wireless earbuds.

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Apple has also said that it will be selling individual AirPods, should you lose only one.

iPhone 7 will receive the most elaborate accessories in history yet.

Some Apple device users, on the other hand, have suggested that if you own regular headphones, carrying the adapter with you all the time is an annoyance, much like it is with the new MacBooks and the upcoming MacBook Pro.

As well ensuring the buds don’t slide down a drain if they ever fall out (good luck, runners), the strap will also enable users to rest the buds around their neck if, heaven forbid, they’re not using or charging them.

But the feature that has everyone up in arms is the absence of a headphone jack and the introduction of its accomplice: air pods.

The public had mixed reactions to the new features of the iPhone 7. This is really just about being jealous that someone else got an iPhone 7 before you did, which, judging by the lines that form every year, is pretty important to some people. Like it or not, this still leaves two options to connect headphones to the latest iPhone models: wireless Bluetooth audio or wired headphones. “The courage to move on to do something new that betters all of us”.

Arguably the biggest news to come out of Apple’s big iPhone 7 announcement last week was the launch of its new wireless headphones, the AirPods.

“I think it’s ridiculous, everyone is going to look stupid”, Jasmin Del Rosario, a junior nutrition and biology major, said, There was no point in removing the AUX”.

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What should be more concerning for Apple is that Morning Consult’s newest poll shows a decline in interest compared with the release of the company’s iPhone 6S model. Luckily, Apple has made a decision to include this adapter in the box with every iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook announces the iPhone 7