OnePlus Again Pokes Fun at Apple's Headphone Jack Removal During OnePlus 6 Announcement

[mattopotamus]

If I was to go back to Android this is probably the phone I would get. I seriously miss the Nexus days, getting a pretty damn beastly phone for ~$400.

 

[tylersdad]

Nothing gained by removing the headphone jack? Are you kidding?
Replacing my wired phone with a 20ft cable with a cordless phone gained nothing, it was fine!
Replacing my car ignition key slot with a keyless start gained nothing, it was fine!
Replacing my horse and buggy with an automobile gained nothing, it was fine!
Do you still want your floppy disk drive on your computer? I bet your computer doesn't even have a CD player anymore. Come on.

Sometimes you just need to progress! Wireless headphones/anything has HUGE advantages. And by keeping the jack promotes complacency in keep using it. Sometimes you just need to force people to use a better technology for it to really catch hold and literally push society forward. I congratulate apple and apologize for the people stuck in the past.

You didn't need the headphone jack eliminated in order for you to use wireless headphones. This move by Apple did not advance the ball in any way at all. If anything, it was a backwards move. I use my iPhone as a MIDI source. That means the lightning port is taken up by the MIDI adapter. But, the lightning port is ALSO the only place where zero-latency sound comes out. So how am I supposed to get the audio that I'm playing out of the phone and into speakers? Bluetooth? Please. It's too slow and the audio quality pales in comparison to a wired connection.

There are legitimate use cases for a headphone jack. There really is no legitimate use case for removing it.

 

[GlamCheese666]

Jokes continue, but they are sure riding Apple's coattails with that notch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[tylersdad]

Remember, Apple always pushes toward the future and the future is wireless. They did emphasize that in their keynote. The removal of the jack was to push towards the future, it wasn't to make the phone thinner and water resistant. They did that with their Macbooks also... People were not using CDs anymore, so they took the CD-ROM off.

They did not need to remove the headphone jack to allow people to use wireless. Rather, eliminating the headphone jack almost forces people to use wireless.

Don't get me wrong, I use wireless when working out. But there are many scenarios where I still need the headphone jack. For example (as stated in previous posts), you can't use any iPhone past the 7 as a MIDI source since the MIDI input is also the lightning port, which is also the audio out port.

 

[tylersdad]

Just last night I was talking to someone via their Bose Bluetooth headphones and it sounded like absolute CR*PP. I came to the conclusion that bluetooth is still really not ready for my use.

Oh, wireless works for phone calls. You just have to find the right pair of $200 wireless headphones.

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Yep. Like a said to someone else here, the market followed Apple on laptops when they ditched Serial ports and DVD players. It will follow them here too. That's how you can tell the followers btw, the companies that try and capitalize on people that want slowed progress...and then end up doing it anyway.

Apple have always been a minor player in the computer market compared to Windows systems. The peripherals you talk about stopped being added when the Windows market no longer needed them.

Edit: My last laptop purchase in 2015 has a DVD drive as I need it to rip Flacs from by CD purchases.

 

[JGIGS]

ummmmmm...who?

Hmmmmm might be time to crawl out from under that tech rock then?

Or just a person with average knowledge of tech

Who is the first to post on a Macrumors forum article on a competitor? Me thinks not.

 

[iJays]

Another Chinese copy but just can't copy the feel of the iPhone so I bet it will feel cheap as all Chinese copies.

 

[enmanuelrrr]

They did not need to remove the headphone jack to allow people to use wireless. Rather, eliminating the headphone jack almost forces people to use wireless.

Don't get me wrong, I use wireless when working out. But there are many scenarios where I still need the headphone jack. For example (as stated in previous posts), you can't use any iPhone past the 7 as a MIDI source since the MIDI input is also the lightning port, which is also the audio out port.

They eliminated it to push people to the wireless world

 

[macpanzer]

Why does a phone need 6-8GB of RAM?!

 

[szw-mapple fan]

Why would any design department be dumb enough to purposely follow apple with that stupid notch design?

If you are designing a smartphone with a front facing camera and and super thin bezels on all sides, you really don't have any choice in the matter. The front facing camera and speaker phone, as well as the proximity sensors etc need to go somewhere on the front.

 

[enmanuelrrr]

Why does a phone need 6-8GB of RAM?!

Android consumes more RAM

 

[elvislives]

The DACs build into these phones with headphone jacks are Crap. I have wired headphone plugged into a portable hifi DAC and it is so much better that any headphone jack on these phone's. The headphone jack is dead people. Apple should supply AirPods with the iPhone for free tho.

 

[imola.zhp]

Apple is laughing too... all the way to the BANK.

Never heard of this phone before.

 

[kahkityoong]

Since using Bose Bluetooth Headphones - a once in many years investment - I came to the conclusion that a headphone jack really is obsolete.

Obsolete for you if you’re not too concerned about audio quality.

 

[WannaGoMac]

Oh, wireless works for phone calls. You just have to find the right pair of $200 wireless headphones.

ha these were $300!

 

[Michael Goff]

If I was to go back to Android this is probably the phone I would get. I seriously miss the Nexus days, getting a pretty damn beastly phone for ~$400.

With the price creep every year? Probably closer to 550-600$ this time next year.

 

[dyt1983]

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[quaresma]

Since using Bose Bluetooth Headphones - a once in many years investment - I came to the conclusion that a headphone jack really is obsolete.

Not if you care about sound quality. Bluetooth is not good enough

 

[dyt1983]

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[precogincog]

What's a headphone jack? Like arguing about CD's vs cassettes. That tech is aging out very quickly.

 

[elev8d]

Totally agree

It's already been almost 2 years since the iPhone 7 did. So I totally disagree. The headphone jack is practical, universal, higher quality, and doesn't need batteries.

 

[0997853]

Wow... The amount of Apple defendants right here, never even watched the movie I guess. Yes, let's burn everyone who is not Apple! The infidels! How dare you don't like high prices, proprietary cables, removal of functionality and addition of gimmicks! Burn!

Some of you really think they were making fun at Apple in particular. MacRumors article title at its finest. They made fun of all the big competitors: Apple, Google, Samsung.

 

[fairuz]

Android consumes more RAM

#java

 

[EdT]

Obsolete for you if you’re not too concerned about audio quality.

After a very low threshold, most people don’t really care about sound quality. That’s why I find the HomePod situation funny: Apple tried to justify the price because of sound quality. HomePods are NOT high end speakers. They may be better sounding than their competition but that isn’t hard. But most people would still rather buy a crappy $35 speaker than spend 10 times more on a better but not great sounding one.