Breaking NEWS- New iPhone 7 water resistant/proof
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Did you read the article? I don't think you read the article
3sgte@daspeedof
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Its not waterproff just splash resistant. lol
I'm not gonna read it for you
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Oooo...tough call which way to go...carrier pigeon is tempting but that Avian flu...def tough call.
Sennheiser makes headphones that range from cheap to expensive. I'm gonna draw a line at headphones that have a 3-button remote for iStuff - those start at an MSRP of $60 USD. If you buy one of those today, and plug them into something that is not an Apple device, they will still work. You may or may not be able to use the remote and/or mic, but at minimum, they will still function as headphones.
So Sennheiser makes a public statement that more or less amounts to "don't worry, we got this, we will make Lightning-connected headphones". You can only plug them into devices that have Lightning jacks i.e. Apple devices. If you shed your iThing, you now have a pair of headphones that are useless to you. Nothing other than Apple devices will ever have Lightning ports. You might be able to sell your prewaxed headphones to someone else, maybe not. Also their build cost is now higher because they gotta squeeze a codec + Lightning controller in there somewhere, which means the headphones now cost more.
Is this a net positive change?
Option B is to just use the adapter that you get for free. If it breaks, they're only $10 at Apple directly, not $50 or $100 like some people would seem to assume.
I'd venture to guess they'll be in Dollarama for $3 or less within 6 months actually, the same amount of time it took for lightning cables to start showing up there.
I'm not defending the whole decision about the jack thing, I'm just saying that the sky aint falling either. Life will go on.
I'd venture to guess they'll be in Dollarama for $3 or less within 6 months actually, the same amount of time it took for lightning cables to start showing up there.
I'm not defending the whole decision about the jack thing, I'm just saying that the sky aint falling either. Life will go on.
The cheap lightning adapters can only transmit power, not signal. Since headphones need a signal, there won't be any cheapies to be found.
Also, an adapter makes the phone bulkier, harder to handle, and removes the ability to charge the phone. All for no noticeable sound improvement, and an extra $100 or whatever on new headphones.
"No big deal" times tens of millions of users = a billion dollar industry created because "progress".
An exact duplicate of the Apple adapter (which will indeed work with audio just fine) will show up very soon online for even less than the Apple one, mark my words. In Dollarama within 12 months I also predict.
People said the same thing about the lightning cable itself when it first came out, but in under 2 weeks the first knockoffs were hitting the market and now they're everywhere.
Again, I'm not apologizing for the jack thing, I'm still questioning it a little myself...but I'm saying it again...the sky is not falling. No need to throw out your $1000 audiophile headphones.
I'm not saying the sky is falling either. My actual ***** given about this number about 0.5. I'm just irritated that Apple is claiming this courageous when there is no discernable benefit to this change. The only compelling argument for it that I have seen is that Apple wants the jack gone is because it doubles as an accessory port that Apple has no licensing control over (e.g. Square readers).
Precisely. And the same people who come to that realization will also realize there's no need to buy a clunky new $1000 phone to plug their headphones into.
Like Jobs himself said in that video, if Apple makes the wrong technology decisions on behalf of its customers, they wont buy its products. His last prophetic words?
If you bought fancy lightning headphones and then ditch iPhone you could easily get an inline usb-c adapter and keep on playing your tunes. There's no extra bulk, its just s cable.
Net positive? Depends on what the manufacturers do with the new interface. They're now plugging into a digital source... expensive headphones with built in DAC? Just one idea.
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Did some of you lose your critical thinking skills?
They removed something that worked only to give/sell you back a cable to replace the functionality they removed in the first place.
I have NEVER lost the headphone jack ATTACHED to my phone.
I have NEVER heard of anyone's headphone jack falling out of their phone and getting lost either.
They removed something that worked only to give/sell you back a cable to replace the functionality they removed in the first place.
I have NEVER lost the headphone jack ATTACHED to my phone.
I have NEVER heard of anyone's headphone jack falling out of their phone and getting lost either.
There are how many thousands of technology changes every year that no one ever complains about, but people have a problem with one (1) of them and you try to pass us all off as luddites.
By that *cough*rationale*cough* there is no technology change that anyone should ever reject. Let the wise and benevolent tech companies foist whatever they want on the public, they know what's best for us.
Maybe you can put together a crying cartoon meme to really drive your *cough*point*cough* home.
