It was the final straw for me, not buying an iPhone again. Already ditched their Macs and built a Hackintosh... Apple's last great product is OS X, and even it, is getting the kludgy iOS crap built into it.
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Belkin's $40 Lightning Adapter Lets You Listen to Music and Charge Your iPhone 7 at the Same Time
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It was the final straw for me, not buying an iPhone again. Already ditched their Macs and built a Hackintosh... Apple's last great product is OS X, and even it, is getting the kludgy iOS crap built into it.
Do you also drive a manual transmission and insist your next car purchase has a mechanical key with no push-to-start button?Great, buy an adapter so we can use an adapter with the adapter(3.5mm to lighting for us with "regular" headphones)
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Best post of this thread!
do you use 3.5 mm line in at present is that the problem
what are you are worried about- if other than 3.5mm please explain
Most car made before 2007 did not have aux connector either. I drive a car that didn't have it. There are many cheap aftermarket car stereo with bluetooth and/or USB audio out there.
This is truly quite a mess they are asking to use. I hope that good cheap wireless becomes the standard in a few years, but in the mean time it's going to be very cluttered.
NO this available soon-
at 14.99
Or how about something like this in the box, which they're already doing with the external battery case ...
Forcing them to spend more money?? You mean to the student who just purchased one of the most expensive phones on the market? Right, the dock is gonna break their bank. It looks as though you're the only one who hasn't thought their post through. Congrats on making terrible comment after terrible comment.
Forcing people to go without music or charging their phone at night? Are those really the only options they have? lolol
My thoughts exactly. Extra battery life + headphone jack (so it's perfect for people who might otherwise want/need to charge while listening)-- if you're using the case anyways, it'd be better than adding yet another adapter to the mix.
Think about what you said. Don't let the comments of a few wind you up over nothing. In the scenario you describe, someone wouldn't need to change out their headphones. They would simply add the tiny adapter Apple have them for free to the end of the plug and move on. Never noticing or having to think about it again, other than the 2 seconds it would take to remove it. That's the real world, not some "adapter hell" where people are frothing at the mouth as it is imagined by a tiny number in some blogs
Yes, I do. I do not see the appeal of push button start. There are many problems with it.
No it is not. I was given some very high-end wireless headphones. They currently live in a drawer somewhere unused because I have to charge them. My Shure wired headphones go everywhere with me, and I have a pair of wired headphones permanently attached to my Mac desktop. Sorry but I don't want another thing to charge up, and a lot of people feel the same way. the future is not wireless! And as for adaptors... bend over and I'll show you where it goes!
This is truly quite a mess they are asking to use. I hope that good cheap wireless becomes the standard in a few years, but in the mean time it's going to be very cluttered.
Came here for this. Not disappointed!
why would I used an adaptor? For 1 I can't use the adaptor and charge the phone at the same time - I have to buy another adaptor to do this, which doesn't even work with the supplied headphones! Secondly I would have to unplug the adaptor if I want to use my headphones on my laptop, or my ipad. And finally adaptors break and get lost. Give me a 3.5mm jack any day over an adaptor.
This is quite possibly the worst idea ever to come out of Apple. It's not like it was an unused bit of tech like a parallel port. Every phone, laptop and tablet has a 3.5mm jack. This IS the standard, not lightning. It would have made more sense to make a slightly thicker iPhone for the new features, leaving the jack in place and increasing the battery size at the same time. A handful might have complained about the extra few mm of thickness, but there would be many more happy customers if they could get more than a day on a single charge and keep the 3.5mm jack.
I use my headphones when running on the treadmill in my condo. I use in-ear headphones (only one ear piece though) in the car with a microphone when chatting on the phone. I sometimes connect my phone to my car's AUX to play music from my phone. This is just ME however. I'm sure many others will use their headphone jack in a number of different ways.
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Thicker phone with bigger battery? Yes please... and besides, the iPhone 6s is the same thickness as the iPhone 7. Apple's excuses are total crap. They're lying. They got rid of the headphone jack to make MONEY. I hope their sales tank.
You may be right, it's hard to tell because the picture posted in the thread is blurry. The computer end could be a little thicker, but it doesn't look that thick.
Maybe a SCSI adapter?
