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>. The carriers are also said to be buying iPhones in bulk and selling them at sharp discounts, giving Apple another edge. 

Apple gives NO ONE bulk discounts that are worth a damn.  The article must be false.  

DAC in the headphones?  Duh!  At least lightning headphones will work in any lightning equipped iPhone or iPad.   

Obviously, the DAC has to be be two-way or the controls and button on existing EarPods would not work.  

The DAC is THE most important element in high end audio.  Will better headphones sound better than Apple's $9 adapter?  Depends on who makes the DAC, but probably, yes.  Good chip design for low noise costs more.  We can suspect that Apple's chip is just a basic converter with limited noise filtering, etc.  

Greta article.   It could have been 6 articles.  

It shows how Apple has evolved the iPhone itself rather than just trying to copy the PC/desktop experience.   Gradual advancement.   

An article about the box?  Are we that starved for info?

I don't know anything about pixels or photoshop, but that smart connector on the back of the iphone looked faker than fake to me.

In addition, there was no logical or even imaginary reason for it to be put on the iPhone at all.