Maybe it's a good idea to read the real story behind it all before you make it sounds like the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active isn't IP68 resistant:
http://www.consumerreports.org/smar...ne-in-response-to-consumer-reports-dunk-test/
It was a manufacturing issue that caused some few units to fail the tests. Samsung admitted the fault and was replacing all faulting devices to customers who was affected by that.
Man, some of you guys are really bad at reading the news on the internet.
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Yeah, the speakers in the iPhones are also a technology that is over 100 years old. Let's just remove all speakers from the next iPhone so you have to use an external speaker to be able to hear your phone recieve calls and that.
Yeah, just get over that, to, right?
[doublepost=1473375662][/doublepost]I'm gonna explain something here that someone here clearly doesn't understand the basics of when it comes to sound. First. The ears can only hear analog sound. Because of that, you still have to convert the digital sound from the phone to analog sound before the sound is reaching the speakers on your headphones that you can hear. Thus, the need of a DAC.
Secondly, let's get to some points here.
- 1st point. The port on the phone don't determines the sound quality. That's the DAC and the speakers in the headphones job to decide that. The 3.5mm minijack is just a 'middle point' of the analog sound that is converted from the DAC in the phone where the sound is going through.
- 2nd point. Moving the integrated DAC in the phone outside of the phone will not magically make the sound quality better just because you place the same DAC in the controller on the cable for the headphones no matter what port that is used.
- 3rd point. Someone will say that you can use much better DACs via the Lightning / USB Type-C connector over what the phones have. That's true. However, you can already use external DACs with the current phones via the Lightning / USB Type-C / MicroUSB ports which you could have been using for years already. So there is no reasons to remove the 3.5mm minijack just to be able to use better DACs.
- 4th point. The 3.5mm minijack is actually extremely good and in fact flawless. Because the 3.5mm minijack can deliver MUCH MUCH more sound than what out ears can capable of understanding and hear anyways. So you wont get better sound quality by going to another port. Why else do you think the best and most expensive DACs and DAPs out on the market today are using either 3.5mm minijacks or 6.35mm headphone jacks?
Go figure.
Because the jacks are as good as they can be for our ears. If not, they would have been changed out for something else a long time ago. They just works and does it jobs without ANY issues. So why change out something that just works and are perfect?
- 5th point. Removing the 3.5mm minijack is only going to remove choices for the consumers, which is a very bad idea when you take into consideration on how much the 3.5mm minijack is used on everything today.
- 6th point. The only reason Apple is removing the 3.5mm minijack and only makes it possible to use the Lightning port (if you don't want to go around carrying a dumb adapter) for listening to musics via headphones is because they want more profits. If all of the headphone manufacturers have to use the Lightning plug on their headphones, then Apple will charge them a licence fee of 4 dollars (i think it is) over that. That means more profits for Apple.
- 7th point. And everyone knows that Apple will go 'no f**ks given' to their users and do ANYTHING to gain more profits. So again, why remove a plug that can't be any better for delivering sound to our ears for something new (Lightning) that isn't better for any casual users when it comes to just listening to musics?
- 8th point. The 3.5mm minijack might be an old technology, but who cares about that when the 3.5mm minijack have no limitations to what our ears can understand and hear and doesn't have any flaws?
The 3.5mm minijack just works and does the job of delivering sound perfectly. That's why the 3.5mm minijack have survived for so long time, because it's perfect and it JUST WORKS.
- 9th point. And if we are talking about old technology. What about the loudspeakers that are in the phones? Isn't the normal loudspeakers a very old technology aswell?
The loudspeakers was developed in the late 1800s. So maybe we should remove all of the speakers aswell on the next iPhones, just because they are old, so you can just use external speakers instead as a fix for that, right?
- 10th point. Apple only does this for the money, and not because the 3.5mm minijack is old or have any flaws. Read this and you will understand fully on what all of this is about:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/
