Yeah, they are fundamentally the same. But how long would you use your car before needing to buy a new car? Replace it once per year?
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Belkin's $40 Lightning Adapter Lets You Listen to Music and Charge Your iPhone 7 at the Same Time
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Surprised this wasn't released a year ago, since it's also the perfect solution for charging your iPad Pro AND the Pencil.
I've had the same bt headphones for 5 years and still working well. Really think you would replace headphones every year? I keep my cars for shorter periods of time.
You can replace the car stereo with a new one with Bluetooth and USB and SD Card reader for less than $20.
https://www.amazon.com/XO-Vision-Wi...3422676&sr=1-14&keywords=car+stereo+bluetooth
You're thinking short term again. Wireless tech can keep getting greener. Battery tech can get greener and safer.
Wired tech will always be made of wires. The 3.5mm jack will always need a 3.5mm metal plug. It's an ecological dead end.
It isn't a few bucks. They are selling the Wireless Airpods for $159. The margins on that thing is probably higher than on the iPhone. And they are going to sell a ton of them. Also, why would Apple give away good headphones when through Beats it is in the high margin headphone business? Think about the margins it will get on those Beats phones? Once they are selling iPhones in store for your regular walk in customer, think how many will walk out with either the AirPods or a pair of Beats? Or on the online store they will add a pair of Beats to their shopping cart. The numbers will be huge. And your think Apple should kill all of that by flooding the market with millions of "free" Airpods? Your plan would literally have cost Apple billions of dollars; maybe even tens of billions of dollars.
I honestly dont care about charging and using the old jack... ive got a great set of Bluetooth headphones and my home system is also bluetooth compatible so being tethered to a 3ft cable to listen to music has never been my thing...
Ya gotta collect them all! Just like PokeMon Go! But, it's real life and you buy them for the low low price of $40/ea!
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If you connect each and every adaptor Apple makes, just right... ;-)
Ya gotta collect them all! Just like PokeMon Go! But, it's real life and you buy them for the low low price of $40/ea!
Samsung put it well.
Apple would rather make an extra buck selling you dongles, adapters, pencils, etc; things to help get around crippling design flaws.
Samsung would rather make an extra buck selling 360 degree cameras and VR viewers; things to make the experience more fun.
Does someone keep deleting your posts? Like, you offended one of the mods somehow? Because I swear I've seen you say almost these exact things in at least three other posts on this thread...
Kludge? It's a tiny 2 inch extension for the minority of users who want to use their legacy connector until those old headphones wear out or you want to just use the included lightning ones or wireless. No need to exaggerate
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Except Apple gave it away for free. Kind of hurts your conspiracy theory
Speaking of exaggerating ... do you mind providing actual PROOF to your claim that this only affects "the minority of users who want to use their legacy connector until those old headphones wear out".
Apple gave away a free way to charge your phone while using your headphones? I must have missed that article.
Apple gave away a free stylus -- er pencil with their iPP? Considering it's the one distinguishing feature of the "pro" iPads, it would be silly to use the "pro" without the pencil.
My Note 7 even came with an adapter to connect directly to USB drives to access mass storage. It's a standard USB port. I can connect a wired keyboard and mouse to my cell phone. And the connector came in the box.
Apple wants to make money off accessories so badly, they've turned their phone into a cheesy kludge of adapters if you want to actually use the thing.
Can we all just agree that since nobody actually has the product in hand and since there haven't even been opinion polls that we have no proof beyond personal anecdotes for either side, and as such everybody is wrong?
Good deal, thanks.
Yes. The iPhone 7 is kludge. And what's with this reference to the 3.5mm jack as 'legacy' ?? Just because apple got rid of it just because theyre too incompetent to make it waterproof all of a sudden means it's legacy? It's THE standard connector for audio.
Work the pet cock switch.
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So are the quarter inch banana plugs. Great things about standards is you have so many to choose from. What will matter is how well this sells and not what people complain about.
Well, the great thing is they're already complaining. iPhone 6 had the headphone jack and bluetooth for wireless headphones and still had the same 7.1mm thickness. Apple's lying through their teeth... for some reason though, some people actually buy into what they're saying.
How can a company on the scale of Apple disrespect it's consumers like that?
"Legacy" doesn't mean that it was bad, just that it has been surpassed and replaced.
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God rest your Note 7
Apple's replacement is still kludge though. It's such a miserable experience... they completely dropped the ball on this.
Logic isn't it? Who else would use it?
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For the last time, it's clear it has made you miserable, but remember most people only use the included Earbuds; they'll only notice and care and enjoy the benefits of lightning/digital connection. The next big group are the people who only stream and never use headphones or are wireless. This large group will love the great new Apple wireless system and new stereo speakers. Someone who has legacy equipped plug will put the tiny free adapter in the end and forget about it. Misery loves company, but other than some other MR commenters, you are going to be pretty lonely
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I have it and use it every day. And my car does have USB but the interface for it is horrible so I don't use it.