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[Uno Venova]

lets play this backwards,
what if apple decided to bring back the headphone jack for their next phone but decide to remove the bluetooth receiver to compensate. would people with airbuds and bluetooth headphones be cool with it?

That can basically be the same situation as this one. People won't be able to use their bluetooth headphones, but Apple will include whatever method they're using and the majority will be content.

 

[gohepcat]

Whenever I see threads like this I think back to what GAF did when the iPod mini was announced n 2004.

Hundreds of people whaling about how it was a huge move backwards and that nobody would buy a iPod for that much money with less room than the original iPod.

It was a spectacular example of how the consensus of this place can be astronomically wrong.

The removal of the headphone jack will mean nothing. It will disappear from all phones within 5 years, and no one will care.

 

[Souldriver]

Whenever I see threads like this I think back to what GAF did when the iPod mini was announced n 2004.

Hundreds of people whaling about how it was a huge move backwards and that nobody would buy a iPod for that much money with less room than the original iPod.

It was a spectacular example of how the consensus of this place can be astronomically wrong.

The removal of the headphone jack will mean nothing. It will disappear from all phones within 5 years, and no one will care.

Don't think your example fits. With the iPod mini Apple gave consumers more options. In this case they took an option away.

 

[Servbot24]

Don't think your example fits. With the iPod mini Apple gave consumers more options. In this case they took an option away.

Apple has taken options away before too. I actually have a USB disc drive handy for the occasion I need to use a disc on my iMac.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Whenever I see threads like this I think back to what GAF did when the iPod mini was announced n 2004.

Hundreds of people whaling about how it was a huge move backwards and that nobody would buy a iPod for that much money with less room than the original iPod.

It was a spectacular example of how the consensus of this place can be astronomically wrong.

The removal of the headphone jack will mean nothing. It will disappear from all phones within 5 years, and no one will care.

Terrible analogy. That was 12 years ago. The majority of today's GAF was like 9 years old then.

 

[Souldriver]

Apple has taken options away before too. I actually have a USB disc drive handy for the occasion I need to use a disc on my iMac.

True. But I was responding to example of the iPod Mini being added to the iPod line, which is expanding consumer posiblities instead of limiting them.

 

[SpecX]

Whatever Apple, this is seriously bs. You could have made the phone thicker to incorporate these things in there, but instead you want minimal size and use this excuse to create a new revenue stream. I get it's a dated technology, but it's useful and works flawlessly. It doesn't impact me since I only use an iPhone for work, but being the market leader, it will strong arm other phone makers to follow suit which is what I hate most. This will be used for cost reductions and will hit the Android ecosystem sooner than later because of them.

 

[MThanded]

It's odd to see so many people online and in person that have no interest in Apple devices complain about Apple removing a port on a phone they would never have bought in the first place.

Seems like there is more discussion about this than phones that literally burn your house/car down.

 

[Red Liquorice]

People who like apple products are just going to bend over and take it no matter what apple do surely, it's part of the allure of the brand.

 

[Marty Chinn]

It's odd to see so many people online and in person that have no interest in Apple devices complain about Apple removing a port on a phone they would never have bought in the first place.

Seems like there is more discussion about this than phones that literally burn your house/car down.

Why is it the automatic assumption that people who have issue with this have no interestin Apple devices?

 

[mrkgoo]

No it won't because it's still the only futute source of the Apple ecosystem. There is no rival Apple based phone with headphone jack to run to. Some people might go Android but most have iPhones because of the ecosystem, iTunes, the apps, etc... Like I said they can do pretty much what they want because there's only one iPhone.

There are literally 3 other models of iPhone that have a headphone jack.

Of course in future this will dwindle, but the SE might be a design that's around for a couple more years and the 6S will be around for another year or two as well.

We're only in a transitional period of jack removal. If jack removal is a big deal people can just wait it out with their current phones until the options mature. And the options will get better.

As for reasons Apple removed the jack I don't believe that it's for licensing money reasons. Control maybe. I also don't buy many of the excuses Apple gave exclusively. A bit of everything but the biggest one I think is just because they wanted to.

I believe They just don't want to be engineering around a port, while useful to many, there are alternatives to and will eventually be moved on from. I think likely they have done The research and that at any time there will be complaining, now is at an appropriate time and benefits their next model.

 

[MThanded]

Why is it the automatic assumption that people who have issue with this have no interestin Apple devices?

If you don't fit in this category then this post is not directed at you.

 

[Keasar]

That is a obnoxious amount of words to just say "We want you to buy our exclusive expensive shit."

I have an iPhone 4 right now that I use (its a hand down), I use earbuds every day to listen to music, audio books, podcasts etc. The amount of times those fucking things pop out of my ears is way too many to count, having those wireless things pop out and get lost in traffic would be infuriating. Maybe one day I'll upgrade to iPhone 6 and then just stop with Apple products there (because I wanna be able to keep using the apps I've bought so far).