The ultimate in stupidity. Like an adapter for a iPhone will never get lost. 
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Possible iPhone 7 Lightning to 3.5 mm Adapter Surfaces in New Photos
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An adapter or cable with passthrough for power would be a far more affordable option for you. I typically leave at least one lightning cable in each car for charging anyway, so you could always get one for each car. As an added bonus, hooking up your new iPhone to the car will be easier. Just plug the lightning end into the phone. The other ends would remain connected to the audio jack and USB power source. Currently, you have two different cables to plug into your phone each time you get into the car.
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We need to get rid of cables altogether. Wireless everything is the way to go. End the nightmareThe ultimate in stupidity. Like an adapter for a iPhone will never get lost.
of lost lightning cables and lost audio cables. Apple, save us. We can't keep up with our stuff!I don't think wireless is ready to replace wired headphones yet. Bluetooth 5 may solve outage and bandwidth problems, but battery life is awful.
Apple were planning to remove it from the anniversary iPhone but i'm guessing they chose to do it now in order to push companies to make better wireless solutions and also to get consumers adapted to wireless.
They aren't going to switch to USB-C, with all the audio lightning products (including adapters) that will be released, switching would be a stupid move for a company that's just annoyed customers by removing the headphone jack.
Not all the time, but if the sales do flop and customers make a fuss about it, they may consider it or at least to make advancements to the alternatives.
I Don't know where the majority is. What I know is that :
- people in forum are a minority
- iPhone 6 design is by far the most sold iPhone ever
But clearly, Apple does not make devices for everyone, and that is fine.
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So you can't charge your phone and listen to music at the same time?? You'd think that there'd be a split to a USB and also the headphone jack.
You may think that this one is fake, personally it looks like a prototype/reject. The design is not fake.
I too listen almost exclusively to music/podcasts on my iPhone through bluetooth earbuds (RevJames). They certainly don't produce nearly the quality of sound compared to over-the-ear headphones, but considering that I use them predominately while I'm out and about on the street or on a train, the earbuds suit my needs just fine. The only issue is keeping them charged for runs/commuter trips, but for the most part it's just another thing that I charge at night. While I understand that getting rid of the jack might be burdensome to many people, it won't affect my usage of the iPhone.
There will be 3rd party adapters for that or Apple may sell one themselves, either way it will cost extra.
Your better off just getting a cheap bluetooth headphone and calling it a day, cause getting caught with this in public will turn ugly.
They probably will given that, whether Android fanboys accept it or not, Android manufacturers copy Apple with whatever they do, hence why we see camera bumps on almost all flagships now. Some manufacturers have already removed the headphone jack due to the rumors of Apple doing it, similar to how 'iWatch' rumors sparked companies like Samsung to release a smartwatch first so they can beat Apple to it.
I will never use a dongle with my iPhone. It feels like something I would ridicule a Samsung user for. I really hope that Apple won't go THIS tasteless.
The one example I can think of is when they took the buttons of the iPod shuffle then brought them back after it tanked. It wouldn't surprise me if this one is another reversal.
There are a lot of people who don't want to carry around an adapter, and have to fiddle around with adapters to charge their phone and listen to music at the same time.
And then there are the people who say "Bring it on! I couldn't care less, 3.5mm has had it's time!" I wonder if those are just the fanboys or not...
And then there are the people who say "Bring it on! I couldn't care less, 3.5mm has had it's time!" I wonder if those are just the fanboys or not...
Surely, in this format at least, it's not really anything more than a short extension to the headphone lead?
Does anyone remember having to use ¼-inch to 3.5mm adaptors (both ways) when hi-fi sockets were ¼-inch but headphone jacks transitioned to 3.5mm because of Walkman. Or, the reverse - good headphones used to come with ¼-inch jacks and hifis/radios/Walkmans with 3.5mm sockets.
They were preparing for the adapter to be "shot on iPhone" video for the next commercial.
"Looks rugged and durable. Fit for everything that daily life can throw at it" Said no-one ever about Apple cables.
"It's really great. I think you're going to love it" Tim Cook will say at iPhone 7 launch.
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I think Apply bringing back the 4" iPhone in the form of the SE was a big admission that not everyone wanted a bigger screen incased in a design that resembles a bar of soap.
"It's really great. I think you're going to love it" Tim Cook will say at iPhone 7 launch.
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I think Apply bringing back the 4" iPhone in the form of the SE was a big admission that not everyone wanted a bigger screen incased in a design that resembles a bar of soap.
Under Steve, hell no (you don't remember "You're holding it wrong"?)
Under Tim, much more likely - but I wouldn't hold my breath. Long term, we really don't want things plugging into our phones (keep waiting for Apple to get off of their asses with the wireless charging already - I want my damn charging base stations now dammit!)
Thanks for the image. There's no issue. Either that compact and if designed right also safe for the device connectors or the alternative is a two headed snake cable. Will Apple release something well designed, compact and device safe or will Apple release a two headed snake cable?
If they produced gear that was superior to a 3.5mm connected equivalent, people would buy it. This is not a chicken and egg situation. It's not like manufacturers are not producing Lightning headphones because the connector does nopt exist/works. Bluetooth and Lightning connectivity exists today. You don't have to force a market. By and large, the market has spoken, and the market still prefers the 3.5mm connector for wired.
Right, but that guy who probably works for some Chinese manufacturer who's about to start selling an adapter brick claimed it was possible. I don't agree, but I wanted to point out how dangerous even the most optimistic single-piece adapter is for the Lightning port. A standard 3.5mm jack is 1 inch long, but 1/2 an inch is inserted into the device. With a single-piece adapter, the absolute minimum length of the solid piece is 1 inch, but the Lightning male end is only 1/4 inch and isn't snug along the entire length. A single-piece is a recipe for disaster.