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Samsung's Next-Generation Galaxy S8 Won't Include a Headphone Jack
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I can't wait to read all the comments about how this makes Apples choice right... LOL, two wrongs make a...
Yep. They were early but not first. And there really are good technical reasons to replace ~60 year old connector designs. Maybe some of the complaints will move to the Samsung forums.
Poor Ehrmantraut. This has been a tough week for you. First, record sales of the new MacBooks, then yesterday revealed the Apple Watch is going to set an all time record this quarter and now Samsung pulls the old headphone jack out after you bashed Apple endlessly for it. You've got to be hurting man. Maybe a visit back to Philly for the holidays will help?
usb c then for the next iPhone? because that outdated technology was universal, but lightning port isn't.
Not everyone. Only a vocal few on MR that made it sounds like everyone. Everyone else is enjoying better audio quality just fine.
Yeah...but that's not the point. Samsung wasn't thinking about dropping it when someone else dropped it. Now that Apple has. You can be damn sure its because Apple did it and people still bought iPhones
It won't be the fact that Samsung followed suit that makes it right, it'll be the fact that wired headphones will eventually become as obsolete as the buggy whip.
Heh. I'm looking forward to season 3 of better call Saul, it starts up again in February.
Yeah, take that Apple! There's no news so good for Apple that we can't still bash Apple over it! Yeah for our team!
At least they're using industry standard USB-C.
I think far fewer people would be complaining about Apple removing the headphone jack if they didn't use a proprietary connector, one that they don't even include on their damn laptops.
I think far fewer people would be complaining about Apple removing the headphone jack if they didn't use a proprietary connector, one that they don't even include on their damn laptops.
you do know Lenovo were the first to remove it right?
But whatever no headphone jack no buy simple
At least with the iPhone 7 Apple have created a solid wireless replacement, the AirPods with the intelligent W1 chip. With the "S8" you'll need to use standard Bluetooth. Good luck Samsung.
Apple uses the lightning connector because it is they key to their walled garden. If their phones had USB-C then anyone could make any "unauthorized" attachment. Plus apple get's a cut now.
Apple was the first to take criticism for doing that.
Apple's overall tragectory, first apparent (and even explicitly stated) with the addition of wireless syncing to iTunes, then iCloud, is to go fully wireless. And now we have further reports that the iPhone 8 may have wireless charging (admittedly after Samsung and others did it first). So possibly within as little as a year, the lightning jack vs. USB-C issue will be moot anyway.
So, if Apple were to include a dead fish stuffed inside every iPhone 8 box; how long before Samsung did the same
I see this as a good thing. Not as Samsung copying Apple, but to pave the way for USB-C. USB-C is miles ahead of the lightning port in terms of data transfer and charging speed. Once they finalize the USB-C specifications for headphones... we'll be in serious business.
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