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New Rumor Suggests iPhone 7 Won't Include Smart Connector After All

With a Smarts Connectors they could have a battery case that also supports a 1/4" stereo jack. Could finally use all those gold plated adaptors I have.
 
jmgregory1 said:
So you'd prefer riding a horse to driving a car? Or flying in a jet vs riding on a sailing ship? Meaningful change requires people to come up with solutions to problems we sometimes didn't realize existed.
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True, but meaningful change also requires people to come up with solutions to problems that actually exist, not problems someone imagines exist that actually don't.
 
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jmgregory1 said:
So you'd prefer riding a horse to driving a car? Or flying in a jet vs riding on a sailing ship? Meaningful change requires people to come up with solutions to problems we sometimes didn't realize existed.
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This is a tired cliche. Apple hasn't presented us with a "car" to replace our "horse" for years. Tim Cook repeating this belief publicly is actually embarrassing. Touch ID, a "solution" likely developed by Jobs, really isn't a requirement we never knew we needed. Definitely not 3D Touch. Or Siri. They are options, but not necessary requirements.
 
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jmgregory1 said:
So you'd prefer riding a horse to driving a car? Or flying in a jet vs riding on a sailing ship? Meaningful change requires people to come up with solutions to problems we sometimes didn't realize existed.
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That implication- that we are all stupid- is ridiculous. Cars would supplant horses without being forced on anyone... and did. Jet planes would have become a desirable alternative industry without being forced on anyone... and they did too. Both were BETTER... obviously better. When people can see obviously better, they will move on it. Color TV was obviously better than Black & White, so it didn't require anyone to quit making B&W TVs to get the masses to adopt color. iPhone was obviously better than mostly dumb phones in 2007. Apple didn't need to motivate the world to quit making dumb phones to make iPhone a desirable alternative.

Give us some credit. We are not so dumb that we need a corporation to decide something like this for us. If Bluetooth was better, we could already be all over it. Bluetooth audio has been an available alternative for listening to iDevice music for years now. If Lightning headphones were better, we could already be over it. Those headphone options already exist too. BUT, unlike cars or jets or color TV, they are not obviously better... so the masses don't move on it.

Trying to force a move anyway requires one to believe that a corporation- any corporation- knows better... that we're a bunch of lemmings too dumb to know better vs. status quo. And yet, we did buy iPhones when the status quo was not iPhones. We did buy iPads when the status quo was not iPads. We do buy Macs when the bulk of the world shows an overwhelming preference for the status quo of Windows. Etc.

If nothing else, a most favored company that regularly spins "think different" and "people are too dumb to think differently" are incompatible concepts. Is Apple wrong for encouraging us to "think different" or is Apple wrong for seeing us as "too dumb to think differently" (that they have to "force" such changes upon us to "make things better")?

It's OUR money and people are generally more educated than they've ever been. But even our grandfathers or great grandfathers had enough brains to see that cars were obviously better than horses and jet plane (trips in hours) were obviously better than sailing ship (same trip in days or weeks). All these years later, there are still horses and sailing ships... with both still available to use as transportation for anyone too stupid to go with cars & jet planes (but no disrespect to those who might choose such options for some other reason). The success of cars & jets did not requiring killing horses & sailing ships, nor forcing the public to embrace one over the other.

Obviously better doesn't need any force. Obviously better wins on it's own merits. When innovation is weak or thin, that's when it needs a lot of push to try to make people want what is most definitely NOT obviously better.
 
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jmgregory1 said:
Like any technology, you often have to force change to happen, either by taking away what was the norm or providing such a huge benefit as to make the old not worth keeping. Bluetooth is, at least today, the go-forward for headset connection. And just like wired headphones, you get what you pay for. Want great sounding AptX enabled bluetooth headphones, they're going to cost more than the cheap stuff on the market today.

But the market has been overloaded with crappy wired headphones for years and it's taken years before enough people made the shift to buying more expensive versions, because they finally realized the benefits. The same will happen with BT, but the market needs to get pushed by someone and that is likely going to be Apple. Only Samsung has a similar scale in what could drive the market, but they are too fragmented and the customer base would likely not buy something that pushes a technology forward.
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These posts should automatically be linked to the iPad Pro posts praising the ASK for eliminating troublesome Bluetooth connections and another device to charge.
 
I hope they include it and that they release a new battery case that works with it with no chin at the bottom. I would buy the iPhone 7 just for this.
 
Rogifan said:
So is the photo in this story fake then?
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Yes, but we now know the following:

Headphone jack: yes and no.
Dual cameras: yes and no.
Protruding camera: yes and no.
Smart Connector: yes and no.
Thinner: yes and no.
Dual speakers: yes and no.
256 gb option: yes and no.
New form: yes and no.

So, according to sources it is perfectly clear.
 
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The killer "feature" that iPhone 7 will bring is the A10 chip which will run the new slow iOS 10 perky quick.

The new iPhone 7 along with iOS 10 will finally bring obsolescence to the iPhone 4S and 5. That's its new feature.
I know this is true because Ming Cho Kuan in Beijing told me so.
 
Are people still falling for the fake rumor bit? All the plausible and mild rumors/leaks for the past 3 years have turned out true. Dual Camera, stereo speakers, more storage etc. There's your new iPhone.
 
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American Hero said:
Why would they care? They currently have a better phone (inside and out) than Apple does.
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1) Better phone is a questionable and subjective statement. Hardware wise the s7 is better but software wise it's still a POS.
2) Regardless of what Samsung does they will ALWAYS ALWAYS copy what Apple does immediately. Once a stalker will always be a stalker.
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Col4bin said:
At this point, I think it's safe to assume that the 2016 iPhone will be a minor release at best? If it's the dud that it seems from rumors and reports, will it even warrant a keynote?
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Safe to say that Apple doesn't rely on many of you as a revenue source.
 
nullzero said:
The iPhone 7 is going to have a Windows Continuum / Ubuntu Edge like feature. This is the big thing Tim spoke about.
Like this: dock the iPhone to a desktop unit and you have fully fledged computer. The desktop unit connects to a keyboard, a mouse and a screen. The operating system is macOS 11, coming next month on WWDC.
When you undock the iPhone and leave, you are back in "mobile view" and use it like a regular iPhone with iOS.

It's unclear yet whether they need the Smart Connector, possibly docking can happen through Lightning port as well.
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Why does everyone keep thinking it's going to be be called macOS 11? The next version is going to be the 22nd version of a mac os and the 12th version of OS X. How do you get to 11?
 
jmgregory1 said:
So you'd prefer riding a horse to driving a car? Or flying in a jet vs riding on a sailing ship? Meaningful change requires people to come up with solutions to problems we sometimes didn't realize existed.
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Poor analogies. The invention of the car didn't inconvenience the horse rider and the jet didn't stop ships from sailing. They were new forms of transportation that society transitioned into while still using the old method -- in some cases the horse and ship were more practical for the intended purpose.

It's very rare that consumers for forced to go cold turkey with zero transition time. Even when TV was changing over from SD to HD consumer were given years notice and the very late adopters given set top box converters, not left in a lurch.
 
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The smart connector seemed superficial from the first time this photo arised. Even if it were legitimate, it's purposes would be limited to those who are willing to spend the extra money on something they may or may not use.
 
kas23 said:
Maybe. But, unfortunately, they've never done this before. Usually, around this time, every leak is usually spot on. Tim Cook can control Cupertino, but he has no control over China.
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Exactly, too many eyes and fast hands in China to prevent leaks. This is what's coming.
 
Yes dual camera. No dual camera. No headphone jack. Yes headphone jack. Yes smart connector. No smart connector. No waterproof. Yes waterproof. Yes thinner. No thinner. Yes new design. No new design...

It seems that the only way Tim Cook is able to avoid leaks is by spreading all sorts of information all over the place in order to cause confusion.
 
Sounded like a cool feature, but so many other things that need to be enhanced it's not a biggy. A smart cover that displayed basic info would have been neat, but then again not a killer feature.

I just hope Timmy didn't kill it for supply chain reasons. That would just be so typical, holding back technology just to appease suppliers
 
appledefenceforce said:
1) Better phone is a questionable and subjective statement. Hardware wise the s7 is better but software wise it's still a POS.
2) Regardless of what Samsung does they will ALWAYS ALWAYS copy what Apple does immediately. Once a stalker will always be a stalker.
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Safe to say that Apple doesn't rely on many of you as a revenue source.
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If rumors are true, not this time around anyway.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
It's very rare that consumers for forced to go cold turkey with zero transition time. Even when TV was changing over from SD to HD consumer were given years notice and the very late adopters given set top box converters, not left in a lurch.
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I'm thinking this example is the closest. If customers didn't want to upgrade their old sets, they had to use an ADAPTER.

In other words, nobody forced them to buy a new HD set, but one day they did just shut off the analogue broadcasts -- cold turkey.
 
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