Good riddance:
- It's 50 year old technology
And it's still the most widely used audio standard, and all serious headphones come with it and only it.
- Not having the headphone jack will allow Apple to make to the iPhone 7 even thinner
Yes because I totally want my phone to be even more like a bar of soap and have even more tragic battery life
- Many people are transitioning over to wireless headphones for the convenience.
These people are the ones that couldn't care less about lossless audio. Thanks but no thanks
- Expect new wireless ear pods to debut by Apple that may or may not use sensors to determine the position of your head. why?
So if you're listening to a track and hear a specific instrument in the left ear if you turn your head left the instrument will pan to the middle and eventually to the right ear if you keep turning. What live music is supposed to sound like.
No offence but that's the worst idea since Ping. I don't want to keep turning my head a specific direction because the earphones keep screwing with the balance. I do hope you're just joking with this post, and more specifically with this point.
then again, this is the "magical" Apple in my head. Tim Cook's Apple may just remove the jack and charge $29 for a lightning > headphone jack adapter and stop shipping with headphones altogether to save 20 cents.
Edit:
-removed statement about lack of headphone jack making waterproofing the device easier.
Here is an article: http://www.reuters.com/article/ny-fmi-idUSnBw156453a+100+BSW20150915
All this is is Apple being ~edgy~ and taking a gamble on what common technology standard they should get rid of and make proprietary. Except they're not simply pulling a Floppy here; there's nothing more widespread and nothing better than the 3.5mm standard. Forcing us to use their dumb probably 39.99 dollar adapters if we want to listen to music in good quality is typical of Apple in my opinion, and is another step in furthering themselves from the power user crowd. Now they're more interested in making fashion toys than functional devices that work for you.
So they're effectively taken the battery out and given us an ugly case with a battery hump, they're taking out the 3.5mm and giving us an ugly inconvenient adapter... What's next? Making the screen an external accessory that you plug in? Stop making the phone thinner. Nobody out there is upset about the "fatness" of the iPhone. In fact, the most comfortable iPhone they made was the 3G/3GS. It sat in the hand just right and had the perfect feel to it. Now these phones are sharp and thin and slippery and pretty much unusable without a case, but they still want to keep going? And in the process they're going to get rid of the most popular portable audio standard in the world? Apple pls get serious
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Like I said, the number one reason these don't last is abuse. People treat them like they are made of titanium, don't care and treat them like crap. I see it every day, day in and day out. When people say they don't do that, I tend not to believe them because I can watch them do it right after they say they don't.
They unplug the cable by pulling the cord itself. Yanking it right out. That over and over will make it last a month if that. People leave the phone plugged in and while it's plugged in, use the phone. Twist it, bend it, twist it again, over and over. The cord gets twisted, they don't care. They then yank it out.
Stuff just doesn't break because. It breaks because of abuse. Those usb cables are also 10x thicker than a lightning cable. If Apple were to include that you would have people go OMG!!!! ITS SO THICK APPLE - zeeeOMGwhy???? #applefail #cordgate
Fraying is the result of constantly bending the cord at harsh angles. Over and over again. That's all it is.
That's totally wrong by the way. Apple's cables have historically been a joke in terms of longevity. I've been through many lightning cables that all eventually die for the same reason: the wiring getting exposed at the edges. I don't ~mistreat~ them or whatever excuse you want to grant Apple here. I simply plug in plug out and that's it. You'll just have to accept that the reason they have horrid ratings is because people use them as they regularly use cables and yet they're falling apart very quickly. It's not like you're the only one who apparently knows how to ~treat cables just right~ and everybody else online are a bunch of savage cable abusers.
On the contrary, and interestingly, their EarPods are well made and have lasted me over a year and they frankly go through a lot more usage/abuse. I know a crap cable when I see one and when a cheap Chinese MFi cable has been in service in my car for 3 years in temperatures going from -40C to +40C without a single problem, while Apple Official Lightning Cables can't seem to last over 6 months next to my bed in comfortable room temperature then there's clearly something wrong with Apple's cables.
