And why would Apple make their keyboard vertical? That ruins the purpose of it being an external keyboard if the orientation isn't even what we're comfortable with... Not excited for the new iPads this year.
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Apple Said to Be Removing Headphone Jack From Upcoming 2018 iPad Pro Models
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No one is removing jacks from professional audio equipment. At least not anytime soon.
Doesn't mean we need it on phones or tablets.
Nonsense, the compression techniques used and those old Bluetooth profiles were horrible quality. If Jobs felt this way he wouldn't have made an MP3 player, let's be real here.
iPhone 4S was the very first phone to have Bluetooth 4.0. What they didn't do is license AptX, and that's because they've developed their own AAC over Bluetooth as well as traditionally leveraging wifi with AirPlay for better than AptX quality.
Besides cracked screens, broken home buttons & faulty headphone jacks have been the biggest points of failure in all the ipads I’ve owned since the original ipad in 2010. So I won’t be upset at all if Apple decides to remove them in the next ipad pro models.
But the rumor of Apple moving the smart connector to the bottom of the ipad so the smart keyboard only works with the ipad in portrait mode concerns me. It just sounds too crazy to be true. As does the rumor of face ID only working in portrait mode. I think most people use their ipad like a laptop and not an iphone(In landscape rather than portrait)...so this orientation makes little to no sense to me.
But the rumor of Apple moving the smart connector to the bottom of the ipad so the smart keyboard only works with the ipad in portrait mode concerns me. It just sounds too crazy to be true. As does the rumor of face ID only working in portrait mode. I think most people use their ipad like a laptop and not an iphone(In landscape rather than portrait)...so this orientation makes little to no sense to me.
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Pretty sure lightning earpods plug right into iPads. And Macbooks ARE Macs. So really, you're just saying "Mac doesn't have a lightning port". Thanks, genius.
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You're really not thinking this through, are you? If you use an iPad Pro with a keyboard dock, you're telling me that touching the button on the screen is easier than looking at it?
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You do realize this is a rumor right?
Gotta agree with that. Everytime I go to use my earphones I spend the first few minutes untangling them, hate it, jamming that ever loosening plug in just seems so antiquated. Been wanting to ‘move on’ to Bluetooth for awhile now.
But yet it is so essential to Apple’s DNA. Talk about choice? This is the very same company that emboldened the two by two product matrix. Phil already went in to great detail at the keynote talking about “why” they’re removing the jack. Really, why is this is such a surprise to people? This is just rinse and repeat for Apple.
This is funny... it’s justified to take away the rights of others, but stop there don’t take away mine. They will always take yours too.
Well, yeah. It's on my phone.
Except for the fact that you have to be at the perfect angle/distance every time for it to work. Same facial expression. It's junk. Limitations that were never a problem with touchid.
Is that what your doing?
Kinda getting repetitive there but it’s not going to change apples mind is it?
Of course not, no benefits at all.
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Apple has been “removing choice” going back decades.
But what if I’m not using it in the keyboard dock position and it’s lying flat on the table? With my finger I can just tap the home button (I have to use my finger to use the device anyway), with FaceID I have to pick up my iPad or weirdly position my head over the camera so it can unlock. Not easier than TouchID. Sorry, but I’m not one of those people who just loves everything that Apple throws at them, no matter the impracticality
Bluetooth headphones are great for listening to music. I use them all the time. But the latency is horrible in Netflix etc and a complete no go when producing music. Until very low latency is cracked, Apple are punishing anyone who tries to create music on the iPad. You can't call it a laptop replacement and then hobble music production.
I don’t use my iPhone to listen to music with headphones or earphones so I’m not really impacted by Apple’s decision. But the analog headphone connector will be in use long after the lightning and USB-C ports have fallen by the wayside. Long after the iPhone becomes passe. It has the advantage of simplicity.
If someone was daft enough to pay me to use headphones I would use whatever they gave me, even if it was a set of AirPods.
The opinion of anyone who uses the word 'Simples' in any sentence should not be counted.
You don't need anything other than a Bluetooth headset in 2018.
I guess Apple's team, or whoever is paid millions for their market analysis, think that the main target of iPad Pros should be rich cinephiles camping at rainy US mountains, with extra chargers to deal with wireless low-def high-lag headphones and a need for thinner than thin tablets. Makes sense and totally consistent with the Apple Pencil as well... (or not).
Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me. Just annoy me.
I know. It’s the side of Apple I dislike the most.
Which won't work for at least the music creation scenario. That half a second lag doesn't sound like much, but it drives insane anyone who tries to record an instrument (either real or virtual) using Bluetooth audio.
That's a nice blanket statement. There are still use cases for wired headphones.