Headphone Market Adjusting to Wireless Shift, Apple Connector, Report Parks, Companies
The market for wireless headphones will spike this year on Apple’s design overhaul with the iPhone 7, eliminating the 3.5 mm headphone jack and forcing its headphone users to go wireless or adopt a new wired solution. Parks Associates predicted…
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growth in wireless headphone sales this year from a 2016 U.S. broadband household penetration rate of 16 percent for wireless earbuds and 23 percent for wireless headphones. “Consumers now have more choices and options when it comes to how they listen to audio on their devices,” a 1More spokesman emailed us after its release last week of a quad-driver, wired in-ear headphone. Harman saw an uptick in Bluetooth headphone sales before and since the introduction of the iPhone 7, Armin Prommersberger, senior vice president-technology of the Lifestyle Audio division, emailed us. “Any software, no matter the OS, chipset or resources available, can be securely updated and managed using our over-the-air technology," he also said.