I would usually agree with this but I think the opposite may happen in this case. The inconvenience of carrying around an adapter might increasingly annoy 7/7+ owners over time.
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Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack Was Essential for Water Resistance, New Camera System
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I would usually agree with this but I think the opposite may happen in this case. The inconvenience of carrying around an adapter might increasingly annoy 7/7+ owners over time.
My Xperia tablet is as thick as the headphone port itself, the headphone port that's ****ing waterproof!!!
What?
Re: Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack - I'd give give Phil's "innovation my arse" to know where he picked up on that "theory" -
"It has nothing to do with content management or DRM -- that's pure, paranoid conspiracy theory," he said.
...certainly not macrumors.
In fact I question his quote to be frank.
Fair play I'm not Phil's greatest fan.
Actually I think apple would do far better without him as a "front man". He seems like a Ford car salesman.
Re: Removal of iPhone 7 Headphone Jack - I'd give give Phil's "innovation my arse" to know where he picked up on that "theory" -
"It has nothing to do with content management or DRM -- that's pure, paranoid conspiracy theory," he said.
...certainly not macrumors.
In fact I question his quote to be frank.
Fair play I'm not Phil's greatest fan.
Actually I think apple would do far better without him as a "front man". He seems like a Ford car salesman.
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I can't stop thinking about what your family did with those phones.
Well if it took courage to remove the jack then the only logical explanation is that Samsung are cowards. I can't believe I just wrote that, even in jest
Well people use steering wheels in cars. Whoa, another 100+ years old technology! Lets dump this and build cars with joysticks steering. Just for the sake of moving on.
And how soon will people be losing the small pods? I like the ones connected just for the fact that they have a cord and less likely to lose one.
The 3.5mm headphone jack was taking up space that could be better used for something else.
Just like a lot of these comments.
Just like a lot of these comments.
Apple said removing the jack allowed water resistance. Obviously true.
They never said jackless was the ONLY way to be water resistant. Straw man.
Is IS the only way to move those thick components from the top (where the camera needs to me) to the bottom.
They never said jackless was the ONLY way to be water resistant. Straw man.
Is IS the only way to move those thick components from the top (where the camera needs to me) to the bottom.
More space for bezels perhaps. Can never have enough bezel.
Precisely!
Apple's pushing this excuse hard, but a company as skilled as Apple could do what Samsung did easily. This is Apple not wanting to take complete responsibility since until they announced it there was no way to estimate the amount of pushback they'd get.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Just another reason to wait till next year before buying. By then there'll be better choices than the ugly Apple wireless ear buds. They look like someone chopped off the wires... Incredibly Ugly.
Exactly, this is the first iPhone in a long time that I'm not getting and I will be holding on for mine as long as I can, hate to have to switch to Android. I want to keep on using my high quality headphones that I already have and be able to charge at the same time and not use an adaptor which makes the phone bulky in my pocket.
This is the worst decision in the history of Apple and I doubt Steve Jobs would have approved this. The first iPhone with less features than it's predecessors.
I wasn't mad about this before. I figured there was a good reason and, frankly, whether it was killing off serial ports, floppies, or USB A, I'm almost always in favor of moving forward on this.
The ONLY grip I have is that if Apple was going to eliminate the analog port, now would have been the perfect time to jump to USB-C and unify everything. I'm not a fan of Lightning. The exposed pins on the standard cables corrode really easily.
But yeah, good riddance.
Jobs loved killing off old things. It was one of his best features. You're talking about the guy who removed arrow keys from old Mac keyboards to force people to use the GUI and not just port terminal apps over.
The ONLY grip I have is that if Apple was going to eliminate the analog port, now would have been the perfect time to jump to USB-C and unify everything. I'm not a fan of Lightning. The exposed pins on the standard cables corrode really easily.
But yeah, good riddance.
Jobs loved killing off old things. It was one of his best features. You're talking about the guy who removed arrow keys from old Mac keyboards to force people to use the GUI and not just port terminal apps over.
They didn't buy a headphone company
All battery jokes aside from a design and style standpoint the Note 7 and S7 edge are way ahead of this new iPhone 7.
Also when they claim the "best display" in the industry that's a lie.
I can believe that these features were dependent on the removal of the headphone jack, but they could also have kept the jack and gotten water resistance if it were an extra millimetre or two in thickness.
So true. I used to have respect for Apple. Now, I view them as the most arrogant, dishonest old men that have ever existed in the 21st century, they simply need to retire. Their greed, I find repulsive.
These guys are so full of it
Can we all agree the airpods are pretty ugly?
They look like the old school bluetooth headsets that were silly looking.
Can we all agree the airpods are pretty ugly?
They look like the old school bluetooth headsets that were silly looking.
I don't mind them moving to lightning too much.. except I use my EarPods interchangeably between phone/computers/laptop, yet now I can only plug them in to my iPhone. Is there an adapter to go from lightning to 3.5mm??
I hated the headphone jack. It was a giant hole at the bottom of the phone. Gross.
Thankyou, my thoughts exactly. Though hardcore Apple fans would justify anything and praise it. Had Apple put the internals of the iPhone 2G inside the 7 casing people would go crazy for it.
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Well people use steering wheels in cars. Whoa, another 100+ years old technology! Lets dump this and build cars with joysticks steering. Just for the sake of moving on.
Humans are older than ALL of the technologies we've created. So let's get rid of them.
Besides, per many, many rationalization entries throughout this entire thing, apparently we need to spur on the rise of the androids so that their ears can hear the "all digital" replacement for audio delivered today.
Easily lost, stepped on, broken, replacements are going to sell like crazy. Apple's going make even more money, they're the masters at it.
I didn't get to watch the presentation today. Does anyone know what the IPX rating is for the iPhone 7?