As rumours persist that this year's iPhone 7 will arrive without the standard 3.5mm headphone jack , hundreds of thousands of people have expressed their opposition to the idea by signing an online petition titled "Apple is ditching the standard headphone jack to screw consumers and the planet". At the time of writing, the petition at sumofus.org has attracted more than 227,000 signatories, close to a seemingly arbitrary stated goal of 250,000.