We hope to terminate production and start the shipments of the first batch by December 2016 , in order to at least ship all Super Early and Early Birds.

So, what are the steps that we will take if this campaign is successful? Here's a quick list:

The MFi Program will also allow us to brand the cover with the "Made For iPhone" certification , making it a proper, Apple certified product. For more information on the MFi program, here's a link: https://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/

We plan to use an high-quality DAC (24bit 192khz) to preserve the audio reproduction allowed by the digital output of the new iPhone 7, so you can listen to your favorite music on your regular headphones without sacrificing quality. This DAC is available only with an MFi licence and is guaranteed to work flawlessly with iDevices.

Our main goal is to create a reliable , good quality product; to achieve this, we will be using high quality components and we will do our best to get an MFi licence on the cover.

So we want to put all these things together into a single object: a cover that will provide both the jack and the Lightning connector , for allowing to listen to music and charge your iPhone simultaneously.

In these days, Internet is debating about the choice made by Apple to remove the 3.5mm jack connector in their latest smartphone line, the iPhone 7 . Our project has the goal to restore this useful feature into these devices without having to use tons of cables, splitters and adapters that are quite cumbersome.

Risks and challenges

We have carefully planned our steps in this project, now we only need your help to complete it. We will do our utmost to deliver jCovers as promised, however our project has a number of risks that include:

1) Insufficient capital due to unknown expenses.

We have carefully evaluated the expenses of the project and we should be able to complete it with just the donations; if required we would seek additional outside funding to meet our deliverables.

2) Manufacturing delays.

We have specified a quite short time-frame of a couple of months in the hopes that we will be able to deliver our project by Christmas. We will do our best to achieve what we’ve promised, pushing the manufacturers to deliver as early as they can; however there is no way to guarantee we will produce the jCover by the published date.

3) Minor changes to product dimensions based on design finalization.

Since the product is in an early development state, there is no certainty on how it will look when finished; we will try to keep it as light and small as possible and we aim to an increase in length not greater than 1 cm (0.39 in).

4) The Apple MFi Certification

We plan to do everything to allow us to brand our product with the "Made For iPhone" certification, but the final step of this project is not up to us, so we cannot guarantee that the final jCover will be an official iPhone accessory.