IMO a Chromebook is a better tool than an iPad anyways. Keyboard, costs less if it gets damaged, and as someone that uses Google Workspace in my own small business way better alternative to Microsoft than the stuff Apple calls a productivity suite.
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Apple Eliminates Headphone Jack From Latest-Generation iPad Lineup
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I was talking about the port on the iPad, not the port in general. iOS devices aren't known for their quality DaC.
I use mine similarly. As the new iPad has USB-C, there should be far fewer headaches with regard to connectivity limitations than with lightning which could be a PITA sometimes with multiple devices.
It’s Tim Cook’s Apple. If you make one change, you’ve got to implement the change across the entire supply line to maximize efficiencies (ie profits).
TO me, it is a bonehead move because when the iPad 9 is discontinued the new iPad will be the education model.
Schools buy cheap headphones and earbuds in bulk because they are plug and play and the kids destroy or lose them constantly.
And as much as i am a proponent of USB-C everything, this means schools need to toss their investment in lightning cables (many have purpose built carts for charging and updates) and a kid choose between charging and headphones or having yet another dongle to charge the Apple pencil is absolute idiocy.
Most of these cheaper iPads will go schools & kids don’t need wireless Bluetooth radiation ☢️ on their heads while their brains 🧠 are still developing.
School earphones? How hard could it be to glue the dongles to the cord.
Yes you will, I would rather use a headphone jack but you can still connect the small adaptor.
I don't know. I remember the Cirrus DAC on the 4s I once had being alright. It's certainly better than whatever garbage chip Google uses on the Pixel 3A I'm using now, which is so bad as to nearly obviate the point of having a headphone jack.
(It doesn't really, of course. Headphone jacks 4 lyf.)
There’s not a lot of value in education. Not only are Chromebooks cheap, Google will administer them as well for some paltry sum per system. That’s just how important that student/teacher data is to Google.
Oh, I’m sure you could name ANY feature of any Apple device and you’ll find folks complaining about it.
They ALL know that complaining about Samsung or Microsoft won’t go viral. But complain about Apple and your likes will skyrocket!!They’re cultivating those customers with iPhones. School hasn’t been where children have their first computing experience for a LOOOOOOONG time. And, doesn’t matter how many years of Chromebooks they use, once they want a phone, a large number are going to be asking for an iPhone.
Not only that, for the customers that agree, Apple also knows how many of their devices get connected by wire to a headphone.
Well, for all the folks “concerned” (but not really) about Apple removing the headphone port, the 1st gen Apple Pencil is what any mass purchasers of that generation of iPad are using. How neat is it that they can keep the same Pencils and use them with the 10G (if they decide to buy the 10G). Anyone “upset” about Apple removing the headphone port for the pain it will cause potential users HAVE to be rejoicing that at least they don’t have to buy a new Pencil.
It’s OK, it’s just the Apple Aggrieved had a typo on their most recent grievance memo. They’ll get it fixed.
FWIW you should be able to drop on any USBC hub, though I guess if you're picky about the DAC you may end up with a DAC downstream of even that, adding to the clutter
The USB-to-3.5mm dongle has been tested and proven to be a quite capable DaC. Which is impressive when one considers how little space it takes up.
