Yeah, and since they break frequently they should be included with the (substantial) price of the phone.
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Barclays Predicts 2018 iPhones Won't Come Bundled With Lightning to Headphone Jack Adapter
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From the company that now charges 99 cents for a three month "free trial", a company that increased the cost of the iPhone and MBP by $500 for no reason. Do I think they will remove this dongle so you have to buy one in store? You are damn right I believe this rumour.
They gave you the dongle for 2 years. Use what you have and/or join the wireless party.
Still hate it, go Android...
Wait, they are starting to remove headphones jacks too. They give out dongles still?
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They include wired headphones.
Do you feel the same about your power company?
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I give up, what?
I don't think you know how the technology works. The signal on a 1/8" jack is only as good as the DAC and amp powering it, and you bet your ass there are DAC's and amps out there that wipe the floor with the W1.
Ah, yes. The solution that still involves BUYING something else... Also you seem to be forgetting that putting those dongles on everything is great when the only source of audio you use is your iPhone. Those dongles have to come off when I want to use any other device I own with them. Now those unattached dongles can go missing easy, better throw more money at apple for creating a solution in search of a problem.
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Nice caps. Except unlike your 30-pin example which is hardly used today anywhere, wired audio is (and will be) used outside of Apple for maybe ever. So way to go Apple to think inside the Apple box only and further insulate the user’s ability to conveniently use our overpriced phones outside of the Apple device itself.
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You are correct about it being unbalanced, but the only time a Balanced connection is needed is when you have two separately powered devices that can result in grounds at different potentials. The balanced nature of that cable is to bring the two to the same level so you don't end up with ground noise. In a headphone, there is no second ground connected to a power source to cause this issue in the first place, so it's a straight up non-issue that it isn't balanced.
The analog audio jack will be around long after the lightning port is extinct and the iPhone becomes passe.
We shall see but for Apple that day has came already and that’s all I care about.
I’m glad they don’t yield and walkback leaps that must happen to move tech forward.
I think they were removed to make the packaging of the iPhone more environmentally considerate.. And most people didn't use them so they must've decided there was no point to keep including them.
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Maybe until they get rid of the Lightning port.
Tell me about the progress which took place between the iPhone 6s and the 7 when Apple removed the headphone jack.
Please, explain this great advancement.
Already watched.
Tell me about the progress which took place between the iPhone 6s and the 7 when Apple removed the headphone jack.
Please, explain this great advancement.
Because the way I see it, there is no progress there, and no advancement. Only a backwards step, a downgrade, dressed up in marketing BS from a greedy company f*cking its own users for greater profits.
Do you see something different?
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Wholeheartedly agree.
The cynic in me is thinking that Apple didn't want to engineer a layout to fit the headphone jack (the cost of fabrication, assembly pipelines, modeling, etc), not because they didn't find it useless. I think they truly rationalized the "wireless" argument in their process and convinced themselves that this was the right thing to do. As long as they didn't go way left field on their ideas, people would still buy.
The most profitable thing to do.
Fixed that for you.
Removing the jack serves only the companies interests, no one elses.
No I’m not saying to take every rumor as fact. Although in that case, the new pricing is also true with the X at $899 and larger model $999. I don’t think I agree with Apple not including this purely because it’s a lower price, because it’s still more expensive than any other iPhone. I reason behind it is more to do with moving on and customers not needing it, 2 years after the headphone jack was removed, there are (arguably) better solutions available.
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Problem with USB C is that the connector is larger than lightning. And Apple eliminated the headphone jack to provide more space for other components so presumably the space allowance is limited to the point where lightning is required.
Actually I gave you another reason, and no it’s not true ‘because I say so’.
But sure, here’s your confirmation:
https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/specs/
In around 6 months, click on the link and scroll down to the ‘In the box’ section.
Nope. No confirmation. You're just making stuff up.
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What's that have to do with anything?
I actually do because they spend the R&D on their products and should be able to design them as see fit.