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If Apple really wants to push Air Pods, I think they should offer an adapter for those. Don't give me a Lightning -> 3.5 mm adapter. Give me an Airpod -> 3.5 mm adapter.

I regularly use my headphones with non-Apple products, and 3.5 mm is the standard that everyone (except Apple) supports.

I think I'd happily pay $30 for such an adapter. Even better would be if it was just in the box with the AirPods, though.
 
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Nearly everyone has lost at least one of these

A multi million dollar revenue item for being busy in life and misplacing things
 
Leave the dongle connected to your headphones. Problem solved.
Having a 6s work phone, an iPhone X personal phone and an android phone that I use all the time to listen to music.
Maybe Apple shall not engineer a problem that should not have existed in the first place to begin with and then have the defending fanboys/fangirls to defend such poor decision.
 
If Apple really wants to push Air Pods, I think they should offer an adapter for those. Don't give me a Lightning -> 3.5 mm adapter. Give me an Airpod -> 3.5 mm adapter.

I regularly use my headphones with non-Apple products, and 3.5 mm is the standard that everyone (except Apple) supports.

I think I'd happily pay $30 for such an adapter. Even better would be if it was just in the box with the AirPods, though.
or you could just use the standard headphones.... i cant think of a single reason or use case where it would be logical to turn my airpods into a wired version.
 
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#courage

Get your dongles people.
 
Such first world problems! 65 million people in the world don't even have anywhere where they can call 'home' and people moan about something as shallow as this! Get over yourselves humans!
I don't see the issue. If you like wired, simply use the dongle and being honest, it puts less stress on the earphones cable near to the 3.5mm plug. My earphones always wore on the cable part near to the 3.5mm plug due to the bend in the cable.

However, since i've had AirPods, I never want wired cables on earphones ever again.

People moaning over the 3.5mm socket going really makes me angry. They must lead very sad lives to worry about something that is easily fixed through a tiny dongle. Seriously!
 
I used the adapter only a couple of time in 9 months since I upgraded to the 8+.
BeatsX are my daily driver and I sometimes listen to music with a wired pair of headphones on my Mac, never on the iPhone.
I hope they'll keep the 3.5'' jack on the Mac for a long time, but on iOS devices I'm fine with bluetooth earphones.
Glad to know that the latency does not bother you.:eek:
 
When your best selling product is something that's needed to restore basic functionality to another product then you've lost your way in form over function.

They got rid of the CD/DVD drive and people bought SuperDrives.

Now things are streamed and/or downloaded digitally.

Tons of people these days have wireless headphones/earphones. Why keep the port when they can make room for other components? And at least they include the dang adapter.

Isn’t hard to lose track of especially if you just leave it attached to said earphones/headphones...
 
Have a pile of them sitting on my desk. Folks at the Apple Store were nice enough to give me the charger and adapter when they had to swap out a new iPhone 7 Plus for a new one when it was first released. Have a few others from test phones too. I just don't tend to have a need for the adapters. Suppose I'll eventually toss them along with all the power cables and headphones that pile up with time.

Would you send them to me? Id love a few extras thanks
 
Fruhlinger offered up a pretty reasonable explanation: people keep losing the adapter, thereby having to buy a new one

That's a joke. People have to buy them because they break frequently. My wife has gone through at least 3 this year. She has a health device that (unfortunately) only syncs via a Lightning connection and because she has a newer iPhone. She also uses a pair of headphones she likes through the adapter. In the end, they get flaky and die after maybe 4-6 months. Even the ones she babies and keeps at home to sync her device.

We'd happily pay up if Belkin or whoever made a high-quality durable one, but I haven't seen an "upgrade" Lightning-to-headphone adapter. Anybody come across one that's better-made than Apple's?
 
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