Was this sarcasm? At an airport/on a long flight? On a long drive if your vehicle lacks bluetooth or you want better sound quality? In my case, there are many scenarios.
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Apple's Phil Schiller Recommends Lightning Dock for Charging an iPhone 7 While Listening to Music
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Was this sarcasm? At an airport/on a long flight? On a long drive if your vehicle lacks bluetooth or you want better sound quality? In my case, there are many scenarios.
Looks more like Tim is trying not to drown, swim to the top of the "we want the jack back" flood.
You sure the adapter contains a DAC ? ... my assumption would be the lightning port provides an analogue signal once the adapters plugged in ... i'll have to look at the tear down of a 6/6s to see the specs of the amplifier used there.
*** guess i'm wrong, digital only
Any DAC costing more than $1 is a good DAC !!!
Yeah.
https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/29/cirrus-logic-mfi-dev-kit-lightning-headphones-iphone-7/
If I have time, Ill dig through the actual MFI dev doco
What the hell?
If your *really* getting an iPhone 7 and you get a brand new set of Earbuds and a adapter -- I seriously don't see the beef at all.
Personally as a bodybuilder, runner and biker I've been CRAVING wireless.
90% of this so called bitching is so overblown.
Apple is no longer the innovative tech company it was under Steve Jobs. Apple is no longer forced to innovate to compete with the likes of Samsung, Motorola, and Sony as it had in the past. Now its about how to maximize profits with the least innovative devices on the market. The Iphone jack is a clear example of it. Consumers are now being forced to buy and carry around more adatpors and more accessories to be able to use the new iphones. RIP Apple.
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Apple Fan, for decades, here. Apple is currently in profit mode. They don't care about us. They care about total global sales. We were their rock. Now we are their lacky. I might buy. I will give them that. The competition isn't so much better. But I know from experience they can do so much better. I think Apple is holding back. They want profit not customers who care. This is all now a game of the market. In the past we mattered. We don't matter anymore. I am so torn these days. New is only a feature for satisfying growing the global market. Old is only a comfort for keeping the old market engaged. Just enough and their future for products is all that matters. If google had a soul, I would jump.
This is different. Apple have removed a perfectly good standard to suit their own needs not those of the user.
No, you don't necessarily pay for what you get. "Audiophiles" buy "DACs" that are a packaged product - with power supply, other circuitry such as a digital interface, connectors, and amplifiers - all in a box.
Ultimately there's a semiconductor DAC inside. There are not that many vendors of semiconductor DAC chips. AT THE CHIP LEVEL there's no reason a good DAC costs more than one that's mediocre. It's what the engineer puts around it at the product (i.e. box) level that differentiates one packaged DAC product over another. That's where the cost comes in. Along with enormous margins.
Again, at the chip level, DACs are not expensive. DAC dies are tiny, the semiconductor process is extremely mature, clock rates are relatively low for audio, and yields are very high. That's what drives the cost of DACs at the chip level - die size and yield, leading to how many good die you get per semiconductor wafer. Speaking as a design engineer for a company that made DAC chips.
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Phil the "Shill". "Courage" = "Greed". BTW what are "Earlods w/lightning connector"? Funny!
At your desk working, you want to listen to music so you can concentrate and drown out the office chit-chat, but your phone is out of battery. Loads of people with office jobs do this.
The answer is simple people: If you are in a car, learn to whistle. And for those who complain that now you need one set of lightning headphones for your iPhone and another headphone set with a 3.5 audio plug for your Macbook, there's good news! Buy the female Lightning to male 3.5 mm audio adapter! Probably coming soon! Or just buy an iPhone 6s and hope they change their mind about being courageous with the iPhone 8. But don't bet on it.
Not quite. It would be more akin to forcing the user to use a usb external dvd drive when they are charging their laptop using a lightning charge port adapter, and then force them to use the lightning external dvd drive when they are not charging their laptop - or to continue to use the lightning charge port adapter.
For the proposed "solution" to even be feasible, the lightning dock MUST contain the same headphone connectivity as used on the phone - that is, I have lightning headphones, I need a lightning port available to plug the damn headphones in when charging the damn phone.
A less insane solution would have been to say: you need to buy the Apple "Why?" lightning adapter - which will allow two lightning devices to use the phone's lightning port.
No matter if Phil is up selling or not, it's respectable he replied to a customer. I appreciate that. I know a lot of members are bitter and it's understandable, hopefully technology advances enough where it meets a median ground for everyone, including myself.