Posted on 09/09/2016 4:43:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Slap a slightly modified Apple Records logo on it, and it's sure to sell. The more overpriced, the quicker the product will move.
Wozniak was and is very much against this decision. He has warned them it would bother a lot of consumers. Sometimes inventors know their target market very well. We shall see what happens. It wouldn’t surprise me if a year from now, Apple comes out with a #7 phone, WITH a phone jack, just to satisfying the other side who need to see and employ that ‘umbilical’ connection.
They’re dropping the ‘more waterproof’ argument? Somebody didn’t think this out. When people are listening to music, they want stereo sound - meaning two ear buds. Are Apple buds $159 apiece? Has Apple upgraded their sound board to match? A lot of time, too, when people are listening to music they are involved in some activity and the wires on the buds keep the buds from falling into the manure pile or shattering into a billion bits if they hit the pavement. Wired buds are also lighter and they’re not battery dependent. (Global warming oh no!!) Maybe Apple should have let a few working people play with this before they went with the final geek cubicle-centric product? I can’t see buying it.
I predict that the lemmings will comply and denigrate those lame dinosaurs clinging to their bibles and wired ear buds!
I tried iTunes for about 1/2 and could not get it off my computer fast enough. I’d sooner be assimilated by the Borg.
Meanwhile I users will have one more thing to keep charged and Android users will have choices. Which is exactly why I do not like Apple to begin with.
Maybe it was a mistake and they’d rather market it as an “improvement” than retool it. “Sh*t! You forgot the jack!, well wait...I can fix this..”
I always believed that the famous “spiral sliced ham” was created by accident with a mis-calibrated slicer, originally designed to cut off individual slices from around the bone instead of cutting through it.
Sorry, I meant AIFF..
supposedly Apple is offloading the DAC to the headphones to save space in the phone.
Then Apple adds stereo speakers to the iPhone, which are driven by a ... wait for it ... a DAC.
If one of the priorities of your phone is music, Apple is a shitty choice to begin with - I-Tunes is the most locked-down, unmanageable un-intuitive pieces of garbage ever invented.
Bookmarking.
I just hope they will be compatible with how I use my iPhone for listening to my gun podcasts at work.
The earbuds that came with my iPhone fit nicely under my headset.
“Slap a slightly modified Apple Records logo on it, and it’s sure to sell. The more overpriced, the quicker the product will move.”
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Let’s not forget to fill the device with U2 songs, that’ll really sell!
The fact Samsung managed to get IP68 moisture resistance with the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones show that Apple did not need to remove the 3.5 mm headphone jack. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that the pushback from consumers ends up being so strong that they can’t figure why the iPhone SE and the iPhone 6S/6S Plus models (which will continue in production at a lower rate) are outselling the iPhone 7 models.
“Are Apple buds $159 apiece?”
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I’m not a big fan of stuffing weird looking things into my ears. That it can seriously muckup my hearing for life doesn’t add a whole lot to the attraction.
I HATE ear buds...they don’t fit in my ears
Good one
I’m still hoping Apple will come out with a round mouse.
First marketed in 1990 still in production and, while not the most expensive anymore they still rank as one of the best cans on the planet.
BTW, they use 3.5 mm jacks as well as RCA connectors.
There's something very Steampunk about the idea on running 600 volts an inch or so from each ear. Gotta love electrostatics.
No, they did not effectively make your headphones a bluetooth only device.
Apple included both a set of earbuds that work with the Lightning connector and an adaptor that works with all standard 3.5mm jack earphones that users already own or may choose to buy. If you have an earphone you like, plug the adaptor into the jack and you're good to go, keep it plugged into the earphones and you mostly won't notice the difference.
Unless SOMEONE takes this step of ditching the old tech, good enough will rule the day for audio headsets. Apple has stepped up to the challenge by making it possible for headphones to move into the next generation by providing more voltage and a broader bandwidth for data through a modern interface.
For wireless, Apple has re-designed the Wireless Bluetooth system, re-inventing the system by putting a processor into their wireless earbuds that can handle more bandwidth for far better sound reproduction than anything that has preceded it in the Bluetooth world. They've eliminated pairing so that the devices can instantly recognize Apple devices that belong to the same owner and instantly switch between them. These are major improvements. Apple is going to license this technology to all comers who wish to make headphones
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