It has seemed that the principle of "form following function," has been a guiding principle of Apple design for such a long time, its surprising that they will be doing something so extreme as putting extra holes in their product just for visual balance. Its further surprising that they are increasing the manufacturing cost of the product for visual reasons. Those extra unnecessary holes will add up to a lot of cost and increase the chances of moisture entering the device. Of course maybe they want the water to enter the devices which will prompt damage and replacement purchases by consumers.
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iPhone 7's Secondary Speaker Holes May Be Purely Cosmetic
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Couldn't they have just added a second ornamental 3.5mm hole to balance the headphone jack?
At this point watching Timmy's Apple is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. When are they going to fire Timmy?
At this point watching Timmy's Apple is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. When are they going to fire Timmy?
I thought it was a plain AMG Line C Class?It's an aftermarket kit on what looks like a CLK 55.
The CLK 55 does use a single 3" pipe that splits at the muffler.
Here is a factory exhaust from a CLK 55.
Just let the phone just be! Fake exhausts, fake holes for non speakers. The marketing department has the engineering and design departments hostage at Apple. WTF!!!!!Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...
Age of the looks fellas...
Let's hit some basics up.
"Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept."
https://www.vitsoe.com/gb/about/good-design
"Honest. Products should look like what they are. They shouldn’t have a facade that makes them appear to be more or less than what they are meant to do."
http://todaymade.com/blog/good-design/
I know you're joking, but your ears work logarithmically. To make something "sound" twice as loud, it needs to put out 10 times the sound energy from the speakers.
Every 10 decibel increase in volume is 10 times more sound power. Going from 50 to 100 decibels SPL would require 10,000 times more power at the speaker. But it would sound 32 times as loud to your ears.
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None of those iPhones were missing the audio pin to make room for cosmetic speaker holes. They had the audio pin at the opposite end of the device.
We got rid of the headphone jack for this?
And so we edge ever closer to buying a Galaxy Note 7 in September...
And so we edge ever closer to buying a Galaxy Note 7 in September...
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My iPhone multitasks better than I do. You too, for that matter.
The C55 AMG uses a true dual exhaust system. Two cats and two mufflers. The only join is at the cross pipe to balance the exhaust pressure.
The CLK55 uses a different design.
Yeah. If you want to hear things in stereo, just plug in your headpho... ah never mind.
How does removing a universal headphone jack make anyone's work or life easier?
People aren't hating on Apple for failing to introduce a second speaker; they're hating on Apple for making the iPhone less functional for no goddamn reason!
Did you not buy the iPhone 1 or iPhone 5/5S/5SE because of this? They all had "fake" holes.
I cannot wait to see how this keynote is going to unfold...
I'm not arguing this. my only point was that ornamental holes have a long precedent in iPhone designs. And BTW, the iPhone 5/5S/5SE has the headphone jack on the bottom, not the top... along with "fake" ornamental holes.
No, they won't. In order to put in a second speaker, they would have to take out a whole lot more than the headphone jack. Take a look at the existing speaker assembly on iFixit.
Not really. Possibly an increase in volume but not likely as they would have to remove to much to make this practical, for little quality improvement.
You have no idea what they are doing, nor do you even understand what is being reported here. First, if true, the holes don't go all the way through, so no worries of moisture ingress. Second, these dimples could be used for anything, including some kind of sealed smart connector, similar to the Watch "diagnostic port" (with which this bears a striking similarity), a design, which if used, will need to be rethought somewhat as well. Perhaps this is the solution. Altogether this a thoughtless and cynical post.
I am hoping this rumor is true and its an ingenious move by Tim Cook to get all these whiners off mac rumors so they finally actually go buy an android and begin their whining complaint fest on Samsung sites.
By the way the reason the 1/4 inch jack is being removed is two fold including new functionality of connected devices including headphones and waterproofing.
By the way the reason the 1/4 inch jack is being removed is two fold including new functionality of connected devices including headphones and waterproofing.
I'm not really arguing this either. My only point was that it doesn't seem like anyone has an issue with the ornamental holes. Just that one of the main explanations about losing the headphone jack was to gain a second speaker. Now if the second speaker is really just a "fake" with dummy holes, it makes the missing headphone jack seem that much worse.