Posted on 09/09/2016 6:31:51 PM PDT by House Atreides
This week Apple launched a new iPhone without a headphone jack and stirred up an understandable furor of discontent. But you won’t hear any headphone companies complaining about the move, even though it takes away their familiar entry point into the Apple ecosystem. Most of them have already been preparing for this change for months ... I spoke with a few of the major headphone manufacturers ... to gauge their reaction to the news.
The universal response has been a mix of sunny optimism ... and practicality. Most companies ... recognize that there's plenty of opportunity in having ... Apple making noise around their industry and products.
Sennheiser is one of the best-known names in the personal audio world, and with good reason. This company’s range spans everything from the most affordable $20 in-ear and over-ear designs to the marble-encased $55,000 Orpheus system. Here’s what co-CEOs Daniel and Andreas Sennheiser had to say about the Lightning-only iPhone:
"Sennheiser has seen many different connection standards come and go in the audio world over the years. Audio connections have always been continuously evolving. Digital outputs, such as Apple's Lightning connector, will offer new opportunities to take a step forward and to further enhance the sound experience for the customer. For example, 3D audio technology using digital signals is just one possibility."
To Sennheiser, Apple’s hardware change is just another opportunity. Being pushed into developing Lightning headphones is a challenge that the German company is embracing, and it’s already thinking about ways to exploit that digital connector’s greater capabilities over the classic analog standard. That’s the thing I’d have liked to see Apple do — give people a reason to want Lightning headphones specifically — but ... it’s looking like the third-party accessory makers will solve the problem for Apple....
(Excerpt) Read more at theverge.com ...
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They are simply making a whole couple of generations of headphone obsolete.
To headphone manufacturers, that is an opportunity.
I paid a lot of money for a few apps that use the headphone jack and will not work with any kind of blue tooth. Those apps would be useless with a 7 phone.
Sorry,
No sale.
“being in the Apple ecosystem”
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I don’t know that I’d ever use the term “ecosystem”, much less care to be part of one.
I remember hearing the word “ecosystem” in Elementary school science and the teacher was referring to how a swamp is an ecosystem
Any time I hear Apple ecosystem, I think of it as the Apple swamp and I want nothing to do with it
Of course the headphone companies like it. It gives them an opening to make people buy things they don’t need just to listen to music while Apple can save pennies on installing a lousy headphone jack.
Present generationgones will work fine.
Apple includes an adapter. RTF instructions, oh lib arts majors.
nah. It’s just those Apple fags making themselves sound cool and superior over the rest of us.
“Any time I hear Apple ecosystem, I think of it as the Apple swamp and I want nothing to do with it”
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Yup. It’s on my personal list of words that mean absolutely nothing. e.g. “inappropriate” - it used to mean something, like using the wrong fork for your salad or wearing white sock with black shoes. Now it applies to anything from using the term “manhole cover” to playing the “knockout game”.
Apple Fags. LoL
Omg and your tag line. Lol
I really do fire one libtard every election cycle. It’s therapy for me and payback for the past 8 years.
Disclaimer: I’m a loyal Apple customer (I own 10 Apple devices).
Losing the jack allows for water resistance (huge), and wireless headphones are a leap forward. [Who likes wires?] Better battery life on the iPhone 7 also makes it a likely purchase for me.
It’s much ado about next to nothing.
If someone is hooking their headphone to an apple to listen to “good quality” music, they are an idiot at the start.
It is an OK system, and it puts up with a lot of crap. But, wearing wireless headphones that crap out two miles from home because they were not charged will piss me off.
Ignorance can be fixed, stupidity is forever. So, let's assume you are just ignorant, shall we?
The airpods are stored in a case, the case charges the airpods. Now, just 15 minutes in the case charges the airpods for 3 hours. The case has a built-in battery that can charge the earpods for 24 hours on a charge. The case is charged via a micro-USB. So, you won't go down the road 2 miles, unless you are crawling and dragging yourself along the ground.
If you are crawling, and dragging yourself along the ground - say you were shot, had a car accident or something along that line - all you have to do is talk. You see, the earpods have accelerometes built into them, and can detect when you are moving your mouth. When you move your mouth and talk - they listen. So, you say something like "Siri, call 911". No buttons to push, just talk.
Now, say you are worried about losing them, after all, they are $159 a pair. When one falls out - there are IR detectors in each of them - they stop playing music. So, if you are distracted, and one falls out - the music will immediately stop.
Full data is explained, in very simple terms right here: http://www.apple.com/airpods/
I use wireless headphones now...my hubs works for Audio Tecchnica and got them for me.
Really curious - which Apps rely on the Headphone jack? And how would they be unrecovered by changing to the Lightning port?
Personally, I can think of only one that might present a problem, and I believe the enclosed, free, Lightning to 3.5mm Headphone jack will circumvent that problem. That single problem would be the SquareD Visa/Mastercard reader. But, as I'm sure that this has been considered, I doubt that whatever problem you imagine will be a problem; is either has been fixed, or will be fixed in an update coming out soon. App developers do not want to lose sales, because Apple made an updated iPhone. As a developer - I know I wouldn't want to lose any sales, so I am certainly going to keep to date on my apps. I would assume they would too.
Of course the headphone companies won’t complain - that’s a whole new market to sell to. It’s the users that get the short end on the stick.
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