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Apple Unveils iPhone 7 With Water Resistance, A10 Fusion, New 'Jet Black' Color, Updated Cameras, No Headphone Jack, and More
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All this talk of innovation or lack thereof is silly. How much innovation is anyone really doing with smartphones? We are in an era of small, incremental changes. No new devices from anyone are truly game changing.
Apple internal memo: Hey guys, since we didn't actually change anything or have really any new products to offer, just keep saying, "Completely new!" and "Completely re-designed" and "Our best ever!" over and over and people will think the iPhone 7 and everything else is revolutionary!
It is new! It's got a faster processor and different home button, a better camera etc, battery, thinner. Is it revolutionary? No. Tell me what is revolutionary in todays smartphones. The original iPhone was revolutionary and everything that followed after it were essentially follow the leader, copy cat devices.
Haters gonna hate.
Yeah, don't see why it can't be done online really. To be honest, with these prices (and the fact I literally cracked my 6S Plus screen yesterday and I'm having a bugger of a time getting a quote from Apple to just change the screen instread of the full out of warranty repair cost) I might start considering Android. A bit cheaper, still got headphones jack, some have upgradeable storage, and Android really isn't the dog it was a few years ago.
I'm glad to see that the iPhones are now water resistant. A long over due feature.
So yeah you still didn't answer my question. Did Tim Cook tell you this? Where are you getting this information? Don't present things like this as fact. It makes you look really foolish.
It's a freakin' mobile phone that they update every year - what more do you want? A built-in coffee maker?
I dunno what you want other than just be pissed off. 3 years from now I doubt analog jacks will exist on any phone, much less any other personal devices - it's ridiculous to think that after the pace we've had w/ smartphones and their size/complexity could sustain such an old input device. The iPhone isn't even 10yrs old, and wow.
We're going wireless, passing all the dac stuff to receivers/headphones/etc. Everyone was upset with apple or steve for being so stubborn refusing blu-ray, removing the optical drive, refusing adobe flash on iOS, etc. Tech is moving faster and faster and they're just the first ones to make a forward step. It'll suck (I actually have a very nice set of Sennheiser cans) but this is just another one of those changes.
Pretty sure the lightning connector does not transit analogue audio. There are presently two DAC in the phone one for the speakers and another for the Analogue output.
see pin out of lightning
http://pinouts.ru/CellularPhones-A-N/apple_lightning_pinout.shtml
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He/she needs something to bithc about. Their life must be a dismal, sad place.
Yeah... I have a bluetooth enabled speaker system in my car as well... sounds completely fine and normal. Sounds like you have a terrible DAC or you bought yourself a really crappy set. Sorry, mate.
To everyone wondering about how cell phone plans have changed over the years... I found this old Verizon brochure from 2011
For a single line... it was $90 a month for just unlimited talk and text.
And data was an additional $50 a month for 5GB of data.
Your total monthly bill was $140 a month.
And you still had to pay $199 at the time of purchase for the current base iPhone.
Now here's what I just pulled up today:
For a single line... unlimited voice and text... and 8GB of data... it's $90 a month for the service.
Plus $27.08 a month for the phone.
That's a grand total of $117.08 a month.
And no money down for the current base iPhone.
Kinda hard to make a true comparison between the two since they are so different... and of course family plans would be different as well... but at least you get the idea.
For a single line... it was $90 a month for just unlimited talk and text.
And data was an additional $50 a month for 5GB of data.
Your total monthly bill was $140 a month.
And you still had to pay $199 at the time of purchase for the current base iPhone.
Now here's what I just pulled up today:
For a single line... unlimited voice and text... and 8GB of data... it's $90 a month for the service.
Plus $27.08 a month for the phone.
That's a grand total of $117.08 a month.
And no money down for the current base iPhone.
Kinda hard to make a true comparison between the two since they are so different... and of course family plans would be different as well... but at least you get the idea.
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Then I stand corrected, but don't ever buy spray paint, you'll be disappointed.
So what you're saying is we ought to just abandon the technology altogether and not find a way to improve whatsoever and live in a perpetual state of....never moving forward. Right, right. Glad you're not the one making decisions here in the tech world, otherwise we'd still be working by candlelight or using pigeon carriers or something.
Bluetooth music in my car sounds great, cant tell the difference from bluetooth to using the Aux in.
Exactly. The comments on this site have been positively TOXIC for months. These are freaking phones, people. Get some perspective.
Apple internal memo: Hey guys, since we didn't actually change anything or have really any new products to offer, just keep saying, "Completely new!" and "Completely re-designed" and "Our best ever!" over and over and people will think the iPhone 7 and everything else is revolutionary!
Why are you here if you don't like Apple or it's products??
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A genuine laugh from me reading that one.
^ Upvote for polterbyte
A genuine laugh from me reading that one.
The only issue you have with the 3.5mm jack is that it's old? That's it? So you want to have less options on your phone because it's old. GSM is also old and yet your iPhone supports it.
Why do you think that there's a separate DAC for digital signal coming from Bluetooth than there is for digital signal coming from direct file data? Sounds like you actually have a terrible system and/or terrible seat of ears.
the new A10 chip is amazing!! up to 40% more performance than before, so prepare to experimenting lags in just iOS updates
are they injecting synthol on the iOS???
are they injecting synthol on the iOS???
I use the 3.5 audio jack every day when i go for a walk, but i cannot wait for those Airpods, i can get rid of that cable that gets in the way.
It's a financial risk to remove something that apparently everyone and their grandpa cares so deeply about. The cash grab is giving people what they want, not convincing them otherwise. How are they making more money? You don't have to buy those wireless AirPods, they are the same as the higher end EarPods that apple has provided previously, some people will buy them, but its not what everyone will use. We all will use the in-box headphones and the adapter. No extra$, how has apple made extra money on this choice?
