Well both lighten my wallet. Apple's cheap fray-prone cables lighten my wallet more often.
The cables I bought have lasted just as long as Apple's, have not frayed at all, and were more than 50% less expensive!
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Motorola's New 'Moto Z' and 'Z Force' Smartphones Have No Headphone Jack
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The cables I bought have lasted just as long as Apple's, have not frayed at all, and were more than 50% less expensive!
You do... you do realise you're making this comment on an article about other phone manufacturers making thinner phones?
You don't have to have BOTH Lightning and USB-C headphones. You'll have one set of digital headphones, with to without wireless capabilities, and two cables. Or one cable and an adapter for the devices you most routinely use.
Your new MacBook Pro will have a Lightning connector built in. You'll be able to use one Lightning cable with everything.
By the time USB-C becomes widespread, I fully expect Apple to have improved wireless audio to a point where most everyone will chose it over wired audio, as well as perfected wireless charging to the point where no one will need a cable of any kind except as a back-up emergency.
I like my iPhone 6s and I think it's thin enough. If Apple can reduce the thickness of the iPhone, I would rather them keep the same thickness, add more batter capacity, and keep the ubiquitous headphone jack that is one of the few standards across computers, phones, tablets, music players, etc. Moving away from the current standard used by virtually everyone stinks.
That's not going to help me when I want to plug my headphones into my Windows computer at work. Or into my older car. Or into my work phone. Etc.
Sweet, if everyone does it, there will be a shift in what's readily available and the whiners wanting to keep the 3.5mm out of convenience may one day be silent.
It's a presumption and speculation to think we'll need some hodgepodge thing to charge and listen at the same time as well as the need to spend a crapload on adaptors. If the industry shifts as a whole away from 3.5mm, we all have to understand that it is an improvement in the control we have over the sound quality by choosing our own DAC/amp. If you want the same quality as the existing phone, with its cheap DAC/amp, I'm sure that'll be available for really cheap as a full headphone set or as an adaptor. If you want an improvement or are an audiophile that currently uses the 3.5mm, you might be like me where you'll welcome being forced to pick your DAC/amp.
It's a presumption and speculation to think we'll need some hodgepodge thing to charge and listen at the same time as well as the need to spend a crapload on adaptors. If the industry shifts as a whole away from 3.5mm, we all have to understand that it is an improvement in the control we have over the sound quality by choosing our own DAC/amp. If you want the same quality as the existing phone, with its cheap DAC/amp, I'm sure that'll be available for really cheap as a full headphone set or as an adaptor. If you want an improvement or are an audiophile that currently uses the 3.5mm, you might be like me where you'll welcome being forced to pick your DAC/amp.
Samsung beat us, they won.
Bring out the monkey and the organ grinder
Bring out the monkey and the organ grinder
I like the word ubiquitous. It is getting tossed around a lot here. 4 syllable words rule.
Something is only as thin as its thickest part. Do these measurements include the protruding camera?
I still hate the protruding lens. It almost forces the consumer to purchase the power pack to make the phone look normal.
Agree, and now you have multiple phone manufacturers dictating what kind of headphone can be used on there devices. Headphone jack was fine. MANY a record has been tracked/mixed/mastered using the trusty headphone jack. So headphone manufacturers are now supposed to create, what, 2 or more types of cables, or we're all supposed to carry around dongles for the next few years? This all gets very burdensome for the consumer.
Yeah this sucks. I for one will not be buying an iPhone 7 if they ditch the jack (which it sounds like they will). Boo. I guess that's ok the 6 will probably still be for sale for a while.
There has been the odd occasion where I have left my Apple headphones at home, so I have picked up a pair of "throw away" $4 ones somewhere to see me though the day. There is no way I am going to shell out for expensive bluetooth/lightning headphones in the same manner.
Apple will have significantly reduced the functionality if they take the socket away. This is why I bought the iPhone SE, a cheaper option that should allow me to get to the iPhone 8/9 when they bring the headphone socket back in, or it gives me a couple of years before I go to Android.
This is an interesting thought. I wonder if Apple will include lightning headphones w/ iPhone 7 that have a famale lightning port built in. If executed well it could allow for simultaneous charging/wired headphones, and could maybe be a more compact way to dual-connect charger and headphones. Wish I had the means to create a mock-up of what I'm imagining...
Could also go the other way and ship iPhone 7 with a charging cable that has an additional, famale lightning port to plug in headphones.
The reason the camera protrudes is because there are a bunch of backs that clip on and add functionality, longer battery, Pico projector, speakers etc. When the mods are on the camera is flush. It the camera was flush to start with, it would be sitting inside the various backs that can be attached. It's actually a pretty cool feature.
Very well stated. Smart cables do not get the credit they deserve for looking, like, "just a cable" to consumers.
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I saw this done on a smaller scale with a piece of industrial equipment. A manufacturer knew that several overseas customers were on the take handing over equipment for cloning by knock-off manufacturers. The manufacturer knew this and ended up doing a totally bogus beta program with full knowledge they were getting ripped off. Since it was a "beta" defects were expected. Once the real product came out (a totally different product from the beta) the knock-off house was hit by wasted capitalization tooling up for a product that was never completed.
When have they made an iPhone clone? If anything, Motorola has been the company to stay pretty true to their own unique designs.