I didn't say it was good idea from Apple. It's just another cringeworthy moment during a Samsung product launch. It's not just them who does it, but they just don't pull it off very well. Especially when only like 4 people laughed.
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Samsung Mocks Apple's Decision to Remove the Headphone Jack in iPhone 7
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Are you kidding? Even its fans bashed Samsung for leaving out the very features that people loved, like expandable storage and water resistance. Plus not having a way to replace its tiny battery.
That's why Samsung brought those features back, along with a larger battery and fast ways of charging it. And sales are apparently back up because they listened to their customers instead of dictating.
Samsung users just use their smartphones whilst Apple users continually drool and suffer great angst over their iPhone bling.
So what's the benefit?
You criticise what I say but don't offer any sound reasoning behind Apple's decision.
Why? because it has more functionality?
I bet you think the new macbook w its ONE USB port is great as well...
We find it funny because we can do this NOW. Even the iPhone 5 has a lightning connector and Bluetooth.
I just got a nice set of Bluetooth headphones for my birthday. I got Bluetooth earbuds last birthday. I have got some nice old Sony earbuds from 1995 also. And when lightning headphones become "a thing" I'm sure somebody will get me one of those for my birthday, because let's face it, my family gets stuck for ideas. Fortunately I am a gadget nut and love tech.
At any rate, I could take any of those headphones, and without any adapters, use them on my iPhone SE, my iPhone 6S plus...and my Samsung Note 7 that's on order as a combo birthday and anniversary gift.
This hypothetical future that Apple is rumored to be pushing and other manufacturers already are pushing actually sees my options dwindling, not expanding. Pfft.
The 3.5 mm jack is still a viable third option that so far, judging from the size of the feature packed devices that have them, require no sacrifice to keep. Backing any company's decision to exclude this option without offering a cool new feature in return, goes against my best interests as a consumer. I'm not here to support my options dwindling from three to two for no good reason.
It would only make sense if they are struggling to get everything they want to offer in the smaller SE form factor. The very existence of the Note 7 with a freaking pen inside of it and IP68 water resistant body shows how much you can pack into a chassis the size of iPhone 6S plus without having to lose the headphone jack. It was snarky, to be sure, but a point well made.
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
Sure, Samsung sells many more $0-99 phones (many without Android) than Apple, because Apple doesn't compete in that low end market.
Apple sells twice as many high-end smart phones as Samsung. And that's a fact, my friend.
“Want to know what else it comes with?" He asked. “A serial port. I'm just saying..." Same but different...
I like bezels. It allows me to hold my phone without accidentally launching apps. Sometimes blank space is a feature.
arrrgh... will this conversation ever end.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
When it comes to flagship phones, I think apple is selling more and those are the only sales numbers that can really be compared IMHO.
This is exactly what I am doing. I use Pro Tools on my 5 year old Macbook Pro, and need a new computer shortly. The writing is on the wall for us professional level users with this rumor of losing access to an industry standard jack on the most portable of audio devices and the fact that Apple doesn't update it's computer hardware very much anymore underscores it.
I have read for years that Apple no longer cares about the professional.. This is absolute proof that this is in fact the case. There are many more musicians that use the 3.5mm standard that the people on this board are aware of. Apple seems to not care at all about them, in spite of the fact that they creator/distributors of Garageband and Logic.
Why don't you try multi-tracking audio with BT headphones? You will discover really fast that any latency over 10ms makes doing so literally IMPOSSIBLE. People like me know how unusable BT is for audio and video related work tasks. BT headphones are an outright disaster for critical recording or monitoring music.
The music that you enjoy so much is mixed and mastered at least partially with wired headphones (When not being played through monitors (speakers) that you so emphatically call legacy and sound much much better than what you can pick up at bestbuy.com or target.
Lay persons who believe that all audio should be wireless are LITERALLY clueless and it shows when they tell people like me to embrace (wireless) BT. The amount of ignorance displayed here aimed at people who truly love high quality audio and work with audio everyday, is astounding.
The reason I am posting about this is because I know that Apple and other vendors read forums to gauge public opinion and perhaps what I say might resonate. Apple knows that to their true fans, they can do no wrong and I am pretty sure they could offer a cardboard box with a sticker for 800.00 and many of you would buy it.
So going to your point about moving on. I think you are correct sir. I don't think you are being rude, you are just being realistic as I am. It's not you or the other Apple fans telling us to move on. Apple is the one doing it.
Nope, plus they even made it waterproof.
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It'd be nice if Apple even put a pen slot at all in its pen devices.
Not having a slot makes Jobs' original "who wants a stylus that you can lose" comment even more ironic.
Not to mention the way the Apple pen has to charge.
ONLY if that box was refurbished by Apple because, as we're often reminded by the Cult of Apple, refurbished is BETTER than new.
My ears are still analog. There needs to be a converter somewhere in the chain between the digital file and my ears.
Like the picture the other day showing the Pencil sticking out of the Lightening port like a Lollipop stick.
These people are so Effing clueless they probably think acoustic guitars and grand pianos are digital now.
It's far more likely that this was a jab at Motorola, as they didn't include a headphone jack in the Moto Z.
It's not yet entirely clear why Apple has decided to remove the headphone jack...
Umm, could it be that Apple owns Beats and wants to drive sales of higher-costing wireless headphones?
Oh, and making the device thinner than it already is in the process—considering that's what everyone wants, right Jony?
Umm, could it be that Apple owns Beats and wants to drive sales of higher-costing wireless headphones?
Oh, and making the device thinner than it already is in the process—considering that's what everyone wants, right Jony?
Are they still a company? </sarc>
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Anyone who says Apple is interested in high quality audio, I would point out the fact that they purchased Beats as proof to the contrary.It's not yet entirely clear why Apple has decided to remove the headphone jack...
Umm, could it be that Apple owns Beats and wants to drive sales of higher-costing wireless headphones?
Oh, and making the device thinner than it already is considering that's what everyone wants, right Jony?