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Samsung Kills Headphone Jack in Latest Smartphone After Years of Mocking Apple
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Yeah, if the headphones support AAC then the music is sent as-is and decoded on the headphones. If not, its transcoded on the fly to the crappy default codec from 2003. If the mic is in use, it switches over to POTS quality.
Whoever is FIRST to offer a viable & credible 10-bit color smartphone @ or below $649 USD will Win the Day !
Any by this I mean, 10-bit Capture & Display.
It is critical to properly supporting HIGH Dynamic Range, NOT just Extended / Higher Dynamic Range as we have now !
AAPL is now years overdue Releasing their first 10-bit color iPhone !
Should have been with the iPhone X a year plus ago !
"10-bit color @ our 10-year anniversary" is something I'm sure Jobs would have promoted the hell out of if he was still around !!
Tim Cook's AAPL missed the boat on that one, BIG time !
Any by this I mean, 10-bit Capture & Display.
It is critical to properly supporting HIGH Dynamic Range, NOT just Extended / Higher Dynamic Range as we have now !
AAPL is now years overdue Releasing their first 10-bit color iPhone !
Should have been with the iPhone X a year plus ago !
"10-bit color @ our 10-year anniversary" is something I'm sure Jobs would have promoted the hell out of if he was still around !!
Tim Cook's AAPL missed the boat on that one, BIG time !
A.) Repeating a braindead decision is just as braindead.
B.) "How the turntables"
It's "how the tables have turned".
B.) "How the turntables"
It's "how the tables have turned".
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about technology over the past several years it’s that eventually, everyone ends up copying Apple.
You mean they all become tax evading, patent stealing, customer mocking behemoths whose only innovative department is the legal department? Unfortunately, you're probably right. But Apple has sure been setting a fantastic example.
It’s a joke ... from The Office ...
maybe you need better quality headphones
I have iP 7 and BeatsX and they sound even better than my wired Apple In Ear HeadphonesThe fact that you think beats x sound good shows why you probably don't care about a headphone jackmaybe you need better quality headphones
Everything sounds better than the Apple ear buds ... and your standard for what sounds good is wanting.maybe you need better quality headphones
Please, learn to read written text. I wrote Apple In Ear Headphones NOT Apple Ear Buds. Those are 2 different products.
Thats not true, Apple mocked big phones and they did it later on. They mocked OLED and remain LCD as the better technology, now we have OLED on the flagship...and so on.
The fact that you think beats x sound good shows why you probably don't care about a headphone jack
did you actually use BeatsX so you can say how they sound? I admit, they have little bit of more low end than I would like but it makes for nice punch to music... I mostly listen to metal and they sound much better for that than Marshall headphones
Not a minority at all but we all live in our own bubbles, myself included. Aside from portable Bluetooth speakers I don’t know a single person with Bluetooth headphones or even connectivity in their car. Calling the 1/8” jack 100yr old technology is a bit like calling your phone’s speaker, battery, or power adaporter 100yo tech. It’s a misleading statement. I work in arts & entertainment and not a week goes by where I don’t find myself needing 1/8” audio input at some point. Absolutely critical for latency dependent applications and 5+ hour use cases among other reasons. Plenty of people have certainly stopped using 1/8th jacks but anyone who thinks virtually nobody uses or needs them any more is totally living in a bubble
I hardly ever use it - but plain stupid bad decision. As this apple girlie said "when you need it you need it" - this was about the plain ugly battery pack - which i find not that ugly!
In-ear headphones = ear buds. Learn headphone phraseology. Excluding their bought out Beats products, the only “Apple” headphones are the wired and wireless ones. So I was talking about the same exact product as you. Apple “wired” headphones sound like garbage, so they’re not a good metric for what quality wired headphones sound like compared to Bluetooth.
Isnt that like saying "I still don't understand how people use the wheel It's basically 2019 ffs"?
I bet you never tried them.The fact that you think beats x sound good shows why you probably don't care about a headphone jack
do you have them everywhere?
i have airpods ... mostly at home ... but losts of wired ones in car, office - nearly everywhere
now you !!!
Yep I own them, they are my current wireless headphones.
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Wrong, I own them.