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Barclays Predicts 2018 iPhones Won't Come Bundled With Lightning to Headphone Jack Adapter
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Higher latency and lower bandwidth with wireless are for amateurs.
Lower latency and higher bandwidth with wired are for pros.
It’ll be perfect for when they remove the box from the iPhone box
What did you do with the old earphones. I kept my new ones in the box till I break my old ones and that is why I use my adapter. I prefer using things till their end of life.
Not everyone wants crappy earbuds that are one more thing to charge and easily lost! I don’t use headphones with my phone that much, I guess I’ll have to
It’ll be perfect for when they remove the box from the iPhone box
Yes - just come in and pay $1300 for "iPhone".
You get the prestige of having a receipt showing how cultured and upscale you are compared to others..
That would be whichever iPhone gets a $400 price increase.
You did it to yourselves though. Keep buying Apple products and you'll keep getting screwed like this.
It's a big deal - Apple's trying to remove a long established universal standard solely for profit.
None of the solutions you've mentioned above allow a user to use a single set of headphones, across all devices, and not have to charge them/sync them.
I will not buy a phone without a headphone jack.
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If you pay with ApplePay could you skip a paper receipt but get the prestige of having a digital one?
And does that double our prestige pleasure in that we bought it in a pure way using ApplePay instead of using the lowly alternatives like cash or credit cards?
This is the stupidest comment I've read today. "Take off the training wheels" gimme a break. It's not like bluetooth is exclusive of wired. Wired still the best for Pros.
LOL. "Barclays does have some credibility in this area, as last year, the investment bank accurately predicted that Apple would continue to include the adapter in the box alongside the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X." As though any sane person thought that Apple would go from including it with the 7 and then removing it the next year. Now, they "boldly" predict that Apple "may remove it this year, but we can't be certain until it comes out." LOL.
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make this stuff up.
I literally don't even know what this means. Its entirely meaningless.
I won't have to plug in my TV? Is that a good thing?
Or are you talking solely about 'consumer audio'?
Well I don't want to charge everything, so its not my future.
It's a pain, and means that everything becomes disposable.
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People need maximum bandwidth to listen to their music streamed losslessly via Spotify! Oh, wait, that doesn't make any sense.
I love companies giving me less as well, so hard to keep track of what I buy!
You’re the one who seemed to be trying to refute those claims and left whatever conversation you were trying to start in nowhere land
Have a fantabulous day
While Blutooth now far outsells wired headphones by revenue, and Apple owns the majority of those sales, it's unlikely that Apple will remove the dongle just yet. It only cost them a tiny amount, probably a dollar or less, and the cost is outweighed by the goodwill for the small number of people who use a second set of wired headphones. (Surveys show most people just use the included earbuds.)
Or, as someone else mentioned, they already include a set of Lightning earphones with the phone, as they have ever since they removed the headphone jack. I suspect they will just continue to include that, but without the dongle.
So you want the premium brand company to take all their best technology and make it all optional? I cannot tell if you're joking or not.Hooooray! About time. We consumers that care about best sounding audio really want to pay extra so we can hear it. Truly a dream come true. I wish they hadn't waited so long.
Now, please, please, please Apple: Eject the internal battery next. That will let you have your 5 seconds to tout "Thinnest & lightest iPhone ever," ship the first 2 generations without an internal battery but WITH your own battery case (putting battery case makers out of business), then cease including a battery case 3 generations from now.
Keep the iPhone price the same or raise it (we prefer the latter of course). Then, sell us only your battery case starting with that 3rd generation. Don't worry: while some of us will whine about this move, the bulk will just fall right in line because whatever you decide is best for all of us IS actually best for all of us. Don't be fooled by naysayers who offer counterpoint. They know that whatever a corporation decides is actually best for all consumers: "$2XX Billion in the bank can't ever be wrong"
Ideally, roll out Lightning 2 right before you stop including a battery case in the box and be slow about approving third parties for Lightning 2 accessories, so that only YOUR battery case can power the iPhone that rolls out with Lightning 2. Charge as much as you want because you'll be the only supplier. Again, don't worry: while some will whine about this, the bulk will work overtime spinning it as best for everyone and shouting down anyone who "thinks different." Unlike this headphone adapter, you can make even more money from us because ALL of us will need to buy a battery case.
Tweak the wireless charging standards, patent the tweaks and basically repeat with the slow licensing, so that only an Apple wireless charging pad is also sold as an add-on accessory.
Then, repeat this tactic with the camera. Shift it out to an add-on module, include it for a generation or two, then roll out several ("collect them all") camera modules at premium prices and stop including any camera module in the box. Make sure the camera module connector is proprietary and do the slow licensing thing so that only Apple camera modules are available for purchase for months after launch. And again, do not cut the price of the phone itself. We would MUCH rather you INCREASE the price so we can keep slinging around "but who makes the most profitable phone" in all those market share threads.
In both scenarios, raise the price of the phones and just lengthen the payment plan terms so that you and some of "us" fans can spin seemingly cheap monthly payments "it's only $X.XX more per month." That the payment plan people are on the hook for 36 or 48 or 60+ months doesn't matter- just get the payment amount low enough so that any higher price can sound like it's not much higher spread over ever-lengthened payment time tables.
The future is bright! All hail the Apple.
Not really a good comparison. Floppy drives would be used in today's world of cheap HD's and online storage, very rarely, and used only for accessing old data, while listening to music or audio is performed nearly daily to many of us using very still-modern still-useful corded hardware outside of Apple's ecosystem. Removing the jack is more somewhat like removing function keys; both of them look great for marketing and they scratch Apple's itch to "invent a new way of doing something to sell," but they're hardly without negative trade-offs felt from day 1 for many. Removing floppy drives resulted in very little negative trade-offs felt day 1.