Adaptor lightning -3.5 mm
whats the fuss about?
you don't want it, you get wireless headphones. Whats the fuss?
You already own wireless? Then its OK.
you already own wired headphones? Just get an adaptor, put it on cable and forget it. Whats the fuss about?
It's this kind of thinking that could be slung again and again by the "Apple is always right" crowd should Apple decide to jettison the battery or camera...
- What the fuss about?
- You don't want it, you get a battery case (or external camera). What's the fuss?
- You already own a battery case (or external camera)? Then it's OK (though it's not really, because the size of the iPhone changes often).
See how insane it seems when we apply this thinking to anything else that Apple could also kick out in the names of "thinner & lighter" or "to create space for more stuff to be added inside" which would also be "easily(?)" overcome by just buying an accessory to replace that functionality?
If we can keep swallowing this pill, eventually Apple can ship an empty box for the approx. $1000 and we can get ALL of the parts that make up a current iPhone as separate accessories. The "thinnest & lightest" iPhone ever that is also waterproof, shockproof, shatterproof, unstealable, unhackable, <fill in any other nirvana claims> ever*!
And of course, some of the very same people so passionately arguing (and spinning) in favor of this in the thread will be in those future threads too:
- "it's genius to shift the battery OUTSIDE the phone. Not only would that yield a much thinner & lighter phone but pretty much everyone buys a case anyway... and now everyone can get the exact amount of battery they want."
- "Apple has done it again. No more gripes about the camera quality or protruding because now everyone can simply add whatever quality of camera they want. Perfection. How long until Samesung copies that brilliance?"
- And so on.
We're at page 27 of this thread. The same old nonsense keeps getting spun. I am hopeful that this is one of those rumors that doesn't pan out. If Lightning or Bluetooth is genuinely better, roll it out now (there's already Lightning and Bluetooth headphones) and let either or both "win" by winning us consumers over in head-to-head comparisons. If the masses can
HEAR the difference or if the convenience of wireless makes the sacrifice of audio quality and latency worth it, the masses will switch and then join the chorus arguing for why 3.5mm isn't needed anymore.
Else, keep it in there and let consumers "vote" with their own ears. And including an adapter or including Lightning buds only solves the problem of listening to audio
on the iPhone... it still doesn't allow one set of headphones to also work with pretty much everything else that plays audio including Apple's own Macs. Personally, I'm not excited about carrying around TWO sets of headphones OR an adapter(s) for upwards of many years (until everyone else and everything else embraces Lightning on par with the ubiquity of 3.5mm). I'm not burning for a Lightning connector on future Macs just for headphone use (why would we need it for anything else if it will also have the much more versatile USB3 or USB3c?).
And again, flip your current iPhone up and look at how "thick" the current Lightning connector is relative to the current iPhone. Then time travel forward a few generations. How many future iterations of iPhone until Lightning is spun as "too thick" to support future "thinning." And then what? "Introducing Lightning 2"... and all of what we buy to support this move now is obsolete... OR needs ANOTHER adapter?
So again, I hope this is just a (wrong) rumor. If it's not, then I hope Apple is going USB- even USB3c- on the next iPhone (jettisoning Lightning too) so that an
open standard not completely owned by a single, for-profit corporation can be "the future" of wired audio connections on portable devices. Certainly THAT would yield an even faster way to "the future" and deliver every single one of the very same benefits being spun by the "always right" crowd... AND everyone else could more quickly adopt it too so that the adapters we'll have to carry between now and a return to audio jack ubiquity could be retired more quickly. But let me guess, the "always right" crowd can easily spin why- say- USB3c makes absolutely no sense... that Lightning is the ONLY way to that "future."