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Right, but, again, it wasn't sudden, there was years of warning it was going to happen and also the very late adopters were not left out in the cold either... they were offered a converter box at no charge, so even when the SD broadcasts ended they were still able to receive a picture.
I have no problem w/ Apple ditching the headphone port per se. It's all in how they implement it. If they don't include an adapter in the box then Apple is leaving consumers in a lurch. Asking consumers to either buy a BT headset or a (likely overpriced) adapter is a slap in the face -- pure arrogance on Apple's part. I think a lot of consumers will second guess if they want to upgrade at that point. That helps neither Apple nor the adoption of the technology.
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Heh. You were around when cars became dominant over horses for transportation? I'm guessing not, because, if you were a student of history you'd know that the buggy to cars was a decade+ long transition, it was not overnight. Cars and buggy co-existed on the same roads, not always happily, for years.
Claiming that Apple will be leaving consumers in a lurch by ditching the headphone port, is a red herring of an argument. Apple will [likely] do what they have been doing, providing consumers with a pair of headphones with every iPhone. You may not like them, but you do have an option for how to listen to music. And frankly, no one, not even Apple, is going to stop you from using your existing iPhone, iPad or iPod. Just like my analogy with moving from horses to cars. You can still ride a horse, many people do and the same will be true with iPhones / headsets - there will be people using old iPhones and 3.5mm jack equipped headphones right alongside those using whatever new headphone connection Apple moves to.
And as far as the speed with which change happens, even in (or especially in) the case of televisions, not only are tv's getting better faster, the price points are dropping extremely fast on even the latest technologies. And if you're just talking about Apple and the purported iPhone without a 3.5mm headphone port, this change will only be immediate for those customers wanting the newest iPhone. The hundreds of millions of existing iPhones in the market will still be able to utilize existing headphones with 3.5mm jacks with zero impact on the consumer.
So, in your mind, how do you move forward with new technology, if you have to maintain the old because it would upset certain consumers to change? Adaptors certainly are one way to help bridge the tech gap, which undoubtably Apple and the 3rd party market will provide, but to hang hats on something as if it needs to be a certain way, just because you don't want to change or have too much invested in the old technology, is pointless. It's no slap in the face to include an adaptor, it's a way to help consumers bridge the gap, and yes, you might just have to buy the adaptor in order to keep doing what you've been doing.
Much like those of us who actually went through the shift from 8 track to cassette (and vinyl) to cd to downloading. Each iteration of how I accessed music, I had boxes of the old that ended up getting sold for pennies on the dollar, or just tossed out (in the case of 8 tracks and cassettes). I tape recorded most of my vinyl records, but by the time cd's came out, the tapes were so awful, both in sound and convenience (think melted tapes in the car), that i chucked the lot and effectively started from scratch in buying cd's. And the collection of cd's - they faced the same fate. Thankfully, technology allowed me to save my cd collection to digital, so although dumping the cd's felt wrong, it didn't really cost me anything.
