How many phones use HDMI ports or Display ports anymore? The answer is zero.
You do realize even Apple provides a Lightning -> HDMI adapter, right?
Companies still use SD-Cards. They must like paying Microsoft money to use that feature.
MacBook Air still has a port for that. And Apple provides Lightning -> SD card reader as well.
There’s multiple ways to listen to music and charge a phone.
Oh? Pray tell. Count how many ways you can do it with the new iPhone and how many ways you can do with iPhone 6S and below. Do you still see "multiple"?
I don’t need to have my phone plugged in for entire days to use it. Maybe get one with a better battery if your constantly needing to plug it in.
I don't need to constantly plug my phone in to use it but if it's low on battery and I really want to use it with my headphone out of battery, I have the option to. That's the point.
Most good headphones have their own DAC inside of them.
Eh... no. Good/great headphones are passive ones, just like good/great speakers are passive. You obviously haven't done your research.
ALL Bluetooth headphones have a DAC, some kind of amplifier and a receiver built-in because they are detached from the main source device. Period. It's not just "most" but "all."
Granted, it's not true that anything with its own DAC is "good" but it's true that anything that's wireless needs its own DAC. And that's just a part of the problem.
Most people use AAC or MP3 the others small actual use case. There’s a huge size difference.
Eh... no, there isn't. At most, 100MB versus 300-400MB. Lossless compression is still a bit better than a CD, which is all WAV. Unless your sampling rate is higher but that's completely irrelevant because the iPhone can only decode up to a maximum 48KHz 24-bit. Can't handle anything higher than that. It's a hard limit in the software. Which also means that the largest an album can ever be is just about as big as a single CD.
Unless you have lots of storage, you need to use a compressed format.
Of course, that's what lossless is for. ALAC is lossless, y' know. Actually, go read up on it and then continue this discussion after you have gained a better understanding of it. I think you have some very gross misconceptions here.
The iPhone is not a laptop. Quit comparing it with one.
I'm not. I'm stating the facts: the iPhone is the only Apple device that does not have a headphone port.
A laptop has much more room for multiple ports. Alas a phone doesn’t. iPads also have more room on it.
Cool. Agreed.
Don’t see anybody walking around streets listening to music on them or working out.
Again, limited use case. But incidentally, I have seen people listening to music on iPad and laptop out and about. Just gotta look hard enough while you are out. This is a very regular occurrence when you take public transportation in LA or SF.
Apple was not the first manufacturer to remove the port. See Motorola, Lg, and HTC, yet Apple gets all of the blame. Even Google doesn’t use any other port but a type C.
Sure. But at least those manufacturers have better Bluetooth standard support than Apple so their omission is justified in some sense.
See, most Android phones support AptX and AptX HD, which is a Bluetooth codec that allows transmission of up to 320kbps data... either AAC or MP3. In essence, you don't have to "double compress" data to transmit it in that case, which results in close to the same performance you'd get with a wired pair of headphones. So in that case, one can factually claim that with a headphone and device pairing that supports AptX and AptX HD, you're getting close to exactly the same experience as wired headphone listening to the same AAC or MP3 files.
I wouldn't have a problem with that.
But you know what? Apple doesn't support AptX with iOS. They only support it in Mac OS.
And that's not to mention Bluetooth has gone beyond that. Thanks to Sony, Bluetooth now has LDAC, which can transmit very close to lossless data, which basically means that we get 80-90% the data purity of lossless and that means you can potentially get 80-90% the quality of wired setups now with device pairings that support LDAC. Android 8.0 and above supports LDAC so any device that can upgrade to Android 8.0 potentially supports it.
Apple? Not even close to AptX HD. You are double-compressing your audio files while using Bluetooth with iOS devices.
So other manufacturers have an excuse to omit the port. Apple doesn't.
If you want hifi sound a phone isn’t your best bet.
Beg to differ. LG V20/V30? Quad-DAC.
I loved where you said using a smaller battery just for to use a jack. Most people consider battery life a much more important thing then a jack.
And Apple doesn't try to throttle your performance due to battery capacity constraint? Oh wait...
Expecting a smaller battery capacity and reducing the performance of the processor is not new to Apple.
Needing to have a phone constantly charging is a limited use case.
It is. But being able to use a phone while it's charging is not.
"Wanting to use a phone while it's charging" is not the same thing as "needing to have a phone constantly charging."
My phone lasts a long time and Bluetooth doesn’t drain as much as it used to.
Cool. But again, if I want to use my phone while it's charging, I can.
Guess what? When wireless charging is the only form of charging left, that's going to be next to impossible unless you want to press your ears against the phone on the charging pad just to make or take a call. So... innovation much?
If Apple wanted to force users to use Bluetooth headphones why do they provide you with an adapter and wired headphones.
Better yet, why not keep the jack, like they do on literally everything else they're making, and then just include wired headphones?
