Apple granted patent for thinner headphone jack; hopefully it never uses it

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In Apple’s seemingly endless obsession with thinness, it’s probably fair to say that the existing headphone jack standard remains a thorn in Jony Ive’s side. For as much as Apple can ingeniously shrink down its devices to just a few millimeters, the 3.5mm headphone jack remains a fact of life that Apple must continue to engineer around.

Unless, of course, Apple comes up with a completely new headphone standard.

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