YouTube/TechRax
Posted on 09/24/2016 6:39:25 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A fake YouTube video claiming to show users how to get the much-missed sound input has gone viral - with many unknowing victims following its lead
CLUELESS iPhone 7 users have been tricked into DRILLING a hole into their phone in a bid to get a headphone jack.
A fake YouTube video claiming to show users how to get the much-missed sound input has gone viral – with many unknowing victims following its lead.
iPhone 7 users have been tricked into drilling a whole in their new handsets by a cruel YouTube video
Users were told to take a 3.5mm drill to make a hole in the handset where a headphone jack used to appear
Owners have copied the video’s instructions to place the phone in a clamp and take a 3.5mm drill to where the headphone hole used to be.
Needless to say drilling a hole into your iPhone will leave you with a very broken handset – and not the promised addition.
Apple’s newest model has ditched the jack in favour of bluetooth headphones to make more room for internal hardware.
But customers have been left angry at the decision – with some taking extreme measures to bring back the old hole.
As a result some desperate viewers were duped into destroying their new handsets with the cruel DIY tip.
Clueless users then complained their phones had stopped working after falling victim to the prank
Furious James Ceja commented on the video: “I tried this and ended up with display destruction and it not working… I really committed the biggest mistake of my life by watching this video.”
David Iriarte added: “A friend of mine told me it worked for him, but my iPhone won’t turn on after I drilled the hole for the jack.
“I checked and it was the 3.5mm drill, so I made no mistake there! What happened? Any of you have the same problem?”
Toekneechair questioned: “Ok I am sure it’s in the comments somewhere but my friend told me to ask what size drill bit am I supposed to use?
“Also I don’t have that clamp thingy, can I or my friend hold it while we drill? I don’t want to ruin my phone.
“Thanks for all the help guys…”
I think Abraham Lincoln said it in his third inaugural address
Some comments have said the whole thing is a hoax, and nobody is really doing this.
Liberals who do this will swear that they hear sound perfectly through the headphones, and that the hole lets the sound out.
Someone should ask the head of Apple what he thinks of folks who try to poke things in where they don’t belong.
Just so long as you don't put it in a paper bag. Remember, Apple has patent pending for the paper bag.
heh
You see this is why Android is better. Android allows up to 5 3.5mm jacks.
A person stupid enough to believe this would be too dumb to know how to use a drill.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Einstein
That’s what many of the comments at The Daily Mail said.
I doubt he can get in any legal trouble for this.
Apple users don’t seem to be too bright
I don’t buy the comparison of removing the 3.5mm jack to removing floppy drives or the eventual removal of CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives.
There has been no widespread disruption of the audio jack standard.
By the time the floppy drive was taken out of initial iMacs ZIP drives were 100x the size of floppies, CD/DVD burners were pretty damn common and a single MP3 was bigger than an entire floppy.
It was obsolete long before it was removed from hardware.
You watch a video showing a guy chucking a brand-new phone in a vice and drilling a hole in it and you think “Hey that’s for me!”...? The guy probably could have told them to drill the hole in their HEAD!
Apple mentality...
I remember when they did that, Imation sold a USB floppy drive just for Mac users
At the time, USB sticks either did not exist or really really expensive, like $200 for 16MB (you read that right, MB)
So floppies were still in use. (still in use today in certain circumstances if you are involved in enterprise or government computing)
It took the general computing world about another 5-7 years to wane themselves off of 3.5” floppy disks. Apple wasn’t vindicated, the technology to replace floppy disks just needed to mature and become affordable, Apple had nothing to do with that.
What, this is a hoax?
Dang I wish I had known that before I got out my 3mm drill bit!
LOL!
Actually, they did. They forced the market to come up with more storage. If they hadn't did what they did, we'd still be using 3.5 floppy disks.
As I said last night, I’m not buying that anyone has actually done this. Most young people wouldn’t now how t o use a drill and most people who own drills would probably technically savvy enough to realize that the video is bullcrap. Typical internet hype
And these are the same mouth breathing window lickers that will vote for killery, or that retard johnson.... They also get suckered into changing the b linker fluid in their cars.
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