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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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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.

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I thought it was a plain AMG Line C Class?
 
Nothing new here.
Even cars have dual exhaust exits but only one with an actual exhaust pipe...

Age of the looks fellas...

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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!!!!!

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/
 
Double the volume obviously.

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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Please realize that Apple has been putting superfluous "speaker" holes in iPhones on and off for almost 10 years. The iPhone 1 and iPhone 5/5S/5SE all had "cosmetic speaker holes" in them. But now somehow people are disgusted and flabbergasted by it.

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.
 
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if that turns out to be true then I am not buying it. It would go against everything I believe in and I would feel really disappointed by Apple. I hope this is just a rumour and not a fact. So, lets see but "fake" holes = no purchase for me.
 
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Unfortunately, most people commenting on this non-story don't understand acoustics. 2 speakers would be mere marketing with no substance. The many "advantages" of the competition are distinctions without a difference, and just mean that they are hoping to create marketing hype rather than providing real value. What everyone is missing is that the real advantage of Apple products is the simplicity of setting up an ecosystem where all of the machines that are supposed to make your work and life easier actually do that. It's in the way they seamlessly work together, the ease of use, simplicity of tasks, freedom of organization that they provide the user, not the me-too gimmicks of the mediocre.

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!
 
if that turns out to be true then I am not buying it. It would go against everything I believe in and I would feel really disappointed by Apple. I hope this is just a rumour and not a fact. So, lets see but "fake" holes = no purchase for me.

Did you not buy the iPhone 1 or iPhone 5/5S/5SE because of this? They all had "fake" holes.
 
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.

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.
 
That would seem a little odd if this turns out to be true. Keeping a single speaker and using the opposing side for the mic almost seems wasteful. I would bet that Apple could have two speakers and the mic in the same space.

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.

This may sound like sarcasm but it's not: is there actually any benefit to having two speakers that close together?

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.

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.

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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