You sound bitter.Apple gonna Apple. Moves like this are exactly why I haven't been able to stomach any Apple products since the iPod Classic (and my 160GB one is still kicking!). Rather than care about customer convenience they always go for proprietary stuff like this just to sell more of their branded items.
The iPhone 6/6 Plus are already one of the worst feeling phones because of how thin, slippery, and hard to hold it is. Why make it even thinner? Who's even asking for that?
So we can't charge and use headphones at the same time? Brilliant, this is exactly why I haven't owned an iPhone since 4. That Apple ecosystem.
Counter argument: this means the next iphone comes with a 2000+ mah battery. Only justification for this is using a 2200 mah battery and coming with three days of battery life. Three day battery life and 7 hours SOT is the only justification for ditching the headphone jack.
After looking at 200 videos of the Z5 Compact I'm now thoroughly convinced that a bulky smartphone is not a bad thing. Give me battery life and leave the thin battles for chinese OEMs. Not a shot because there's a chinese OEM that made the world's thinnest smartphone by taking out the headphone jack.
So we can't charge and use headphones at the same time? Brilliant, this is exactly why I haven't owned an iPhone since 4. That Apple ecosystem.
Apple need to make two iPhones, but not based on screen size. Do what was done with the macbook series. Macbook Pro is meant for performance and Macbook Air/Macbook compromises performance for thinness. Make an iPhone that doesn't try to be ridiculously thin and offers better performance/battery as well as a dumb thin one.
They may think they've achieved such a significant foothold in the market that they could pull it off. We have plenty of examples from the video game world of incredibly influential corporations overestimating their hand and screwing it all up.If Apple packages every iPhone 7 with Lightning/Bluetooth Headphones AND an adapter/dongle, then I think this could work fine without much hubbub.
That said, I don't think they will have the balls to kill the headphone jack so soon, especially if it's just over making their phones 1mm thinner. At worst, I think the iPhone 7 will have no headphone jack, and the iPhone 7 Plus will have a headphone jack. That way they have one model for people that care about small size and thinness, and one model for people that don't mind a bigger phone.
I think Apple will release their own (non-Beats) bluetooth headphones, "AirPods". As shitty sounding as they will be they will, moreso together with a jackless iPhone, push the lower end market to go bluetooth as well.
It's 2015, you'd think we would've gotten rid of cords altogether by now.
It's 2015, you'd think we would've gotten rid of cords altogether by now.
all of them, bar magsafe, are industry standards though to be fair.Mini-DP, Thunderbolt, USB 3.1, MagSafe v2, etc.
Right? There's no way in hell I'm buying this phone if this is the case, and I've been iPhone exclusive since the 3G.I need to find out which companies are the biggest suppliers of iPhone accessories and buy their stock
How many FLAC fans are seriously using their phones as audio players? We live in a world of Spotify now.
And it doesn't seem like people who do like quality audio would be out of a wired option.
And yet iPhones don't have wireless charging, something Androids and Windows Phones have had for years.
It's not about flac. I don't believe in flac myself, it's just that Bluetooth requires you to have your audio processed through the Bluetooth device's (built into the headphone or external) DSP and while they're improving still aren't as good as a dedicated dac and amp, because there's only so much you can pack inside.
So we can't charge and use headphones at the same time? Brilliant, this is exactly why I haven't owned an iPhone since 4. That Apple ecosystem.
If you need to cut out 1mm just switch from 3.5mm to 2.5mm headphones ¯\_(ツ_/¯
The company that made its desktop keyboards worse so it could make them thinner is going to remove the headphone jack and then just increase the battery size?
No, they're going thinner.
It's 2015 so I use wireless bluetooth headphones, not really worried about it.
Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices on old tech to move forward. Here's what I predict: everyone will bitch about it, yet the iPhone 7 will break sales records.
Moving forward in this case is making a 7mm thick phone a 6mm thick phone. If this happens the only reason would be Apple wanting to reap the enormous profits of people buying overpriced adapters to use their standard 3.5mm headphones, and manufactures paying apple to put lightning connectors on their new headphones.
Apple still obsessed with making things thinner lol.
They made the Apple TV fatter and still managed to remove a port many people still use. It's just Apple being cheap as usual. But thanks to them I've discovered how much better Roku is than Apple TV.
Damn. Would most likely switch to Android if they went through with this.
Seems like a terrible idea. And I truly don't get the obsession with an ultra thin phone. Like who gives a shit? No iPhone has ever been too thick to use ever.
I know, I dumped may 6S and Apple TV for a nexus 6P and Chromecast and couldn't be happier.They made the Apple TV fatter and still managed to remove a port many people still use. It's just Apple being cheap as usual. But thanks to them I've discovered how much better Roku is than Apple TV.