New Rumor Suggests iPhone 7 Won't Include Smart Connector After All

That would make it the first flagship smartphone in the world without any new feature at all. This is what I call thinking different.

It's the typical "Let's write a rumor both ways – that way we're right regardless of what happens!" Nothing much to see here. I do think this would be a nice feature, though.

So it's gonna be a new camera and one less jack......uncompromisingly boring....unapologetically innovation less.....imaginatively unimaginative

I don't understand why people only think that smart connector is for keyboard. Logitech already made a dock for the iPad Pro, showing that it can be used to charge as well.

So far, no reason to upgrade from the 6s.

So you'd prefer riding a horse to driving a car? Or flying in a jet vs riding on a sailing ship? Meaningful change requires people to come up with solutions to problems we sometimes didn't realize existed.

That implication- that we are all stupid- is ridiculous. Cars would supplant horses without being forced on anyone... and did. Jet planes would have become a desirable alternative industry without being forced on anyone... and they did too. Both were BETTER... obviously better. When people can see obviously better, they will move on it. Color TV was obviously better than Black & White, so it didn't require anyone to quit making B&W TVs to get the masses to adopt color. iPhone was obviously better than mostly dumb phones in 2007. Apple didn't need to motivate the world to quit making dumb phones to make iPhone a desirable alternative.

Give us some credit. We are not so dumb that we need a corporation to decide something like this for us. If Bluetooth was better, we could already be all over it. Bluetooth audio has been an available alternative for listening to iDevice music for years now. If Lightning headphones were better, we could already be over it. Those headphone options already exist too. BUT, unlike cars or jets or color TV, they are not obviously better... so the masses don't move on it.

Trying to force a move anyway requires one to believe that a corporation- any corporation- knows better... that we're a bunch of lemmings too dumb to know better vs. status quo. And yet, we did buy iPhones when the status quo was not iPhones. We did buy iPads when the status quo was not iPads. We do buy Macs when the bulk of the world shows an overwhelming preference for the status quo of Windows. Etc.

If nothing else, a most favored company that regularly spins "think different" and "people are too dumb to think differently" are incompatible concepts. Is Apple wrong for encouraging us to "think different" or is Apple wrong for seeing us as "too dumb to think differently" (that they have to "force" such changes upon us to "make things better")?

It's OUR money and people are generally more educated than they've ever been. But even our grandfathers or great grandfathers had enough brains to see that cars were obviously better than horses and jet plane (trips in hours) were obviously better than sailing ship (same trip in days or weeks). All these years later, there are still horses and sailing ships... with both still available to use as transportation for anyone too stupid to go with cars & jet planes (but no disrespect to those who might choose such options for some other reason). The success of cars & jets did not requiring killing horses & sailing ships, nor forcing the public to embrace one over the other.

Obviously better doesn't need any force. Obviously better wins on it's own merits. When innovation is weak or thin, that's when it needs a lot of push to try to make people want what is most definitely NOT obviously better.