Waiting for the “Apple is usually the first to remove obsolete components” post.
When Apple removed the floppy disk drive from computers file sizes had grown way beyond the 1.44 MB file size that floppy disks could store, and read/write CD’s and DVD’s were included with computers. When they got rid of DVD’s USB flash drives were cheap and commonplace. When they didn’t support Flash files on iPhones it was because Flash software didn’t work very well on mobile devices and it was also a large security risk. I bought my first smartphone at this time and it was an Android because it ‘supported’ Flash web pages. Like hell it did. Even Android finally admitted that Flash was a buggy unreliable security risk that was difficult to get working on mobile devices.
The 3.5 mm Jack? Cheap, easily available and better quality sound than Bluetooth head sets costing 5 times more. And it works with anything made by almost anyone without needing a separate charger to recharge your battery powered Bluetooth device. And Apple hasn’t used the space freed up for some other device inside the phone. This “improvement’ wasn’t.
And I don’t know that Apple was the leader in removing all of the obsolete equipment that they have been credited with.
When Apple removed the floppy disk drive from computers file sizes had grown way beyond the 1.44 MB file size that floppy disks could store, and read/write CD’s and DVD’s were included with computers. When they got rid of DVD’s USB flash drives were cheap and commonplace. When they didn’t support Flash files on iPhones it was because Flash software didn’t work very well on mobile devices and it was also a large security risk. I bought my first smartphone at this time and it was an Android because it ‘supported’ Flash web pages. Like hell it did. Even Android finally admitted that Flash was a buggy unreliable security risk that was difficult to get working on mobile devices.
The 3.5 mm Jack? Cheap, easily available and better quality sound than Bluetooth head sets costing 5 times more. And it works with anything made by almost anyone without needing a separate charger to recharge your battery powered Bluetooth device. And Apple hasn’t used the space freed up for some other device inside the phone. This “improvement’ wasn’t.
And I don’t know that Apple was the leader in removing all of the obsolete equipment that they have been credited with.