But with the next iPhone, nobody is forcing a customer to buy it if they want to use their old headphones -- they will still sell the 6, 6s & SE. Giving them a free adapter in the box, when they will most likely give them a free Lightning pair of earbuds, is only encouraging the continued use of their old equipment, which does nothing for creating demand, improvements, innovation, and price drops for wireless and digital sound. And that ultimately perpetuates the use of adapters and costs customers better more affordable future options.
"Dear Customer, if you want a camera upgrade to your iPhone 6s, you would have to adjust your Audio listening habits as well, as we now force a new way down your thr..., ah, we meant introducing lightning audio, in the hope to create future demand. You would have to buy a 29 USD adapter (Mac128: but it will be *ONLY* 19 USD [\completely missing the point]) as well for now, but we are confident that with our move we will force improvements upon the lazy audio industry (and ignorant customers, who have had the choice between a 3.5 mm connection, BT and even Lightning Connectors already for years).
Stick with us for a transition period of a couple of years of slight inconvenience and financial burdens when hopefully a new industry standard which is simple, reliable, practical, cheap - and which ideally requires no external charging or power, will have been adapted worldwide, so you can connect your headsets with every phone, home audio equipment, PCs, Airplanes Entertainment systems, etc. (Wait, don't we have already something similar?).
And if not, then we have at least filled our pockets with millions of adapters sold. And with the removal of the 3.5 mm jack and saving 184++ cubic mm space, we are finally able to introduce the Continuum Transfunctioner*.
Because in part what's motivating them to remove it at this juncture is free up over 184 cubic mm of internal space presently occupied by the redundant 3.5mm single purpose jack.
Apple is trying to reclaim over 240 cubic mm of space inside the phone from a redundant port that only provides one function.
Please enjoy your new U2 Album, brought to you by us, the forward thinking and visionary company. Find it in your music selection on your 16 GB iPhone 7 - mastered in 192 kHz. - and also your 21" iMac, spinning with 5400 rpm"
Hah, and I always thought new technologies should be able to convince with its future set because their advantages are self evident to the industry making it worthwhile for development and customers likewise. So no need to kill off an existing technology to force the development of
maybe something
better. And so far I have yet to see something in your lengthy postings, which I would consider
better as a whole compared to what is available.
Your proposals sound like the removals of wheels to replace them with squared aluminium blocks in order to force development of anti gravity devices.
What I find ironic, that you feel it is a pain in the b... to connect a phone to 2 sockets in your car, but proposing a continuous use of adapters literally everywhere else, is acceptable to you.
Hilarious.
*Explanation:
The continuum transfunctioner is a very mysterious and powerful device and its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
