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Apple's Phil Schiller Recommends Lightning Dock for Charging an iPhone 7 While Listening to Music
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You shouldn't have earphones in your ears while driving
Or they could've included an adapter within their Smart Battery Case. It has a bulk anyway.
Sooooo..... To do the exact same as so many other phones, a lot are far cheaper and including their own SE and 6S, Apple want you to spend more money on a flagship phone and then more money on a charger stand.
I do actually think people should vote with their wallets on this one. If the iPhone 7 sales tank due to this decision, Apple may have to rethink. (Even though I don't like the removal of the headphone jack, I seriously doubt that this would happen in all reality.) - There's plenty of consumers who will buy it regardless, and either won't even know or care.
Apple.... World Class Purveyor of wires, dongles, adapters, gadgets and more. They've built an empire off stuff.
Wired earphones in bed are dangerous anyway.... fall asleep wit them in and you wake up with the iPhone on the floor and a tangled mess. Amazing, there's four more options available - traditional speakers plugged into the charging dock, the wireless earbuds, the new stereo speakers, and any Bluetooth speaker system available today. People really are complaining about nothing.
I won't buy iPhone 7 that's for sure.
I saw this and looked in to the dock. Annnd nope. Waaay too many reviews and reports that the lightning port gets loose over time when using the dock regularly.
Disheartening. Very poor, anti-consumerism choice here by Apple to remove the jack. I am hoping there is a never-ending public outcry. If not now, then once the devices are shipped and people see what they are missing. I am charging my phone right now, while headphones are plugged in. I could not use my phone if it were in a dock, as I am right now while making this post. And I don't want an adapter for my adapter, via Belkin.
The 'solutions' suck because the choice sucks. It's really that simple. Bring it back for iPhone 8.
The 'solutions' suck because the choice sucks. It's really that simple. Bring it back for iPhone 8.
I wouldn't call a 750p screen exactly "bleeding edge" by today's standards...
I don't think it's that common, this small vocal group. People should read the book, "Who moved my cheese."
Complete and utter fail. All they had to do is include a Lightning cable in the box with a passthrough connector, pretty much identical to what they've already included in the external battery case, like this:
Instead what we got was this:
Yea! Im Also thinking something like this. That little dongly cable thing they did include looks like Its going to break.
At work I have lousy data/cell coverage and no wifi option so unless I go airplane mode my battery drains at a ridiculous rate. Since airplane mode isn't practical I normally charge my phone while I using headphones. I'm doing it right now. I don't want headphones I have to worry about charging along with my phone during work hours. Nor do I want to spend another $50 more to do what I'm doing now. So the new iPhone 7 is off the radar for me.
They have a charging dock that has a built-in 3.5mm jack. And they created a marketplace for 3rd-party solutions. Belkin themselves just released a solution, and they stated that they worked closely with Apple. I think that's worthy of mention that Apple is fostering a larger market rather than trying to offer every possible solution themselves.
Who said anything about wearing earphones whilst driving? Not me.
The Lightning dock will be the perfect solution for those who watch videos in bed at night with headphones on. Simply watch on your portrait-oriented iPhone screen that is sitting 5 feet away on the table.
People need to stop saying that we can't be critical of the lack of headphone jack if we don't own an iPhone 7. Knowing what it's like to use an iPhone 7 without the headphone jack is easy. It's called not using the headphone jack on any other iPhone, which many people don't prefer doing.
Yes, don't buy a new iPhone. Simply use iPhone 6 until it stops responding to touches on the screen.
People need to stop saying that we can't be critical of the lack of headphone jack if we don't own an iPhone 7. Knowing what it's like to use an iPhone 7 without the headphone jack is easy. It's called not using the headphone jack on any other iPhone, which many people don't prefer doing.
Maybe this has already been mentioned in this thread, but if Apple introduces wireless charging with the iPhone 8, then this won't be as much of a deal in a years time.
Or in other words:
"Zaheen, we want to suck as much money out of you as possible. So if you want to listen and charge at the same time, we're going to force you to give us $160 for AirPods, which we should have included in the iPhone 7 box but didn't due to my aforementioned goal to suck as much money out of you as possible.
Alternatively, you can give us $50 more to give you something else we should have included in-box. It's called the Lightning dock."
Hope that helps. (Well, actually I don't, because I want you to keep buying things that we should have included in the first place).
Thanks,
Phil
"Zaheen, we want to suck as much money out of you as possible. So if you want to listen and charge at the same time, we're going to force you to give us $160 for AirPods, which we should have included in the iPhone 7 box but didn't due to my aforementioned goal to suck as much money out of you as possible.
Alternatively, you can give us $50 more to give you something else we should have included in-box. It's called the Lightning dock."
Hope that helps. (Well, actually I don't, because I want you to keep buying things that we should have included in the first place).
Thanks,
Phil
The cost of third party solutions is going to drop considerably and very quickly. So will the cost of bluetooth headphones.
Well, they did create a new adapter for headphones so they could have made one with double lightning ports to support charging and headphones together.
It's amazing that you overlook very simple solutions.
From Apple:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNN62AM/A/iphone-lightning-dock-black
From Belkin:
http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F8J198/;jsessionid=63068D215962DA92D727F9959F2DAA76/
... and that's just one day after the phone was announced.
Moving forward from outdated technology but still uses a 750p screen....the irony
You just couldn't make this up. Tim Cook and his pals need a wake up call.
You just couldn't make this up. Tim Cook and his pals need a wake up call.