Samsung Mocks Apple's Decision to Remove the Headphone Jack in iPhone 7

[duffman9000]

People here sound like sore losers lol. The staff here needs to stop pushing the "may also contribute to improved waterproofing" line. Samsung can make its phone "IP-68 waterproof". Why can't Apple? Oh wait, Apple is going to better that right?

 

[AdonisSMU]

They are mocking it but they will copy it....

 

[SMIDG3T]

It sounded like literally five people laughed at that.

Apple will have the last laugh when they release their AirPods.

 

[CrystalQuest76]

Keep in mind that Tim Cook does not lower the price of newly introduced products that replace existing products. The fewer components that are in a product the lower the manufacturing cost.
The profit margins will increase.
There is a saying of "Follow the money." When you apply the logic of money to the removal of the audio jack, the reason becomes obvious.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

People here sound like sore losers lol. The staff here needs to stop pushing the "may also contribute to improved waterproofing" line. Samsung can make its phone "IP-68 waterproof". Why can't Apple? Oh wait, Apple is going to better that right?

IP-68s

 

[DakotaGuy]

You mean people don't prefer dongles hanging from the bottom of their phone?

 

[RadioGaGa1984]

And even if they do remove the headphone jack, it will still outsell them.

 

[apolloa]

weird how so few people in the audience seemed to get the reference

That's because unlike us they all have lives and don't live it on the internet moaning at each other about Apple etc lol...

 

[now i see it]

This is eerily similar to the PC vs Mac hardware issues we mac users have had to "suffer through" for 20 years. We stay with the mac (or iOS) because we like the OS better than "the other OS", but we often lag behind in some of the latest hardware technology.

Almost every feature debuted with this new Samsung phone is drool worthy except the Android part. As I was reading the specs, I was saying, yes, yes, yes... All good things. When I read the rumors about the ip7, nothing sounds interesting. I sure hope the ip7 rumors are all BS.

 

[morcutt11]

These days, it seems Samsung appears be innovating more than Apple in the mobile phone market.

The 5.7-inch Galaxy Note7 adopts several design and hardware features of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge...

So, other than copying their own phone and adding an iris scanner (which will probably as reliable as their first fingerprint scanners), I'm not sure there is much 'innovation' here. Just a natural evolution of its predecessor.

 

[44267547]

I love a good laugh in the afternoon. Samsung never fails.

 

[C DM]

"Please clap!"
"I'm just sayin'."

 

[Porco]

I found that quite cringeworthy despite being totally opposed to Apple removing the headphone jack socket.

 

[modemthug]

Who sells twice as many phones as Samsung? Not Apple. Thats for sure.

No one sells as many phones as Samsung and thats a fact my friend

And if Apple made a ton of cheap, low-end, $100 smartphones and sold them in the second/third world and to prepaid customers in the first world they'd sell a bunch of phones too. But the phones would suck and Apple avoids making products that suck

 

[apolloa]

The one complaint with the iPhone is its battery life, it can never last a full day at an event using the camera taking 4K videos and photos. If removing the headphone jack means Apple makes the phone even thinner, it will also mean it lasts even less when used for what it's meant to be designed for and will be a big fail on Apples part.
I hope it's not true, but they are so bloody obsessed with thinner and thinner designs.

 

[bushido]

But but you cant have a thin, bezel free phone with a big battery, extented memory support and waterproofing with a headphone jack?!?

"What to know what else it comes with?"

TouchWiz, which is 100% of the reason I'll never buy a Samsung Android phone. I'm just saying

I have an old Nexus 4 with Vanilla Android and a Galaxy for work. I dont even notice a difference besides additional apps being installed. Apple has its own share of preinstalled crap on iOS

 

[bpeeps]

If Samsung weren't mentioned in this article, the comments would be 90% negative.

 

[freediverx]

Reminds me of now defunct PC OEMs who boasted they still offered floppy drives on their computers.

 

[GeneralChang]

Who sells twice as many phones as Samsung? Not Apple. Thats for sure.

No one sells as many phones as Samsung and thats a fact my friend

Absolutely true. I think they meant "makes twice as much money as Samsung," which is pithy but may also not be accurate. I haven't looked up the numbers. But Apple definitely bring in way more profit.

 

[Porno]

You can see you're movin in the wrong way when not even Samgung wants to copy you...

 

[dampfnudel]

Mocking a phone that doesn't exist? That's how you sell your product?

Mocking a phone that exists by the boatload in a warehouse somewhere in China. Hey, removing something that will bring a good amount of irritation to a significant number of people is a legit swipe. Sure, at some time in the future, we'll all laugh that we had to use it, but at the beginning...I'm sure if it was Samsung dropping the jack, Tim or Phil would "mention" it.

 

[FurbyUK]

Is this like when Samsung slammed Apple for no removable battery and no SD slot, then in the next model they did the same? *cough*Galaxy S6*cough*

 

[yaxomoxay]

That's because unlike us they all have lives and don't live it on the internet moaning at each other about Apple etc lol...

what are you talking about? I do have a life, it just happens to be on MacRumors...

 

[ConnYoungy]

1. It's not confirmed until Apple announce it but more importantly:
2. LIKE FOUR PEOPLE LAUGHED OUCH

 

[GeneralChang]

I'm a little surprised that people would assume that jab was at Apple when Apple has yet to announce any such thing but there is at least one phone out there that has already removed the headphone jack.

 

[CarlJ]

Mocking a phone that doesn't exist? That's how you sell your product?

Indeed. You know you're not the top dog when your grandstanding involves fighting against rumors about what the alpha dog might do some day. Good dog, Samsung, good dog.