King Gilga
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Honestly I'm surprised that headphone jacks have lasted this long, you'd think that we'd have something better, smaller and more future looking instead by now.
I just don't understand the thin thing. I don't get what a thinner phone achieves.Apple giving a shit when no one else does is a pretty big part of why they're so successful.
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.
Honestly I'm surprised that headphone jacks have lasted this long, you'd think that we'd have something better, smaller and more future looking instead by now.
Definitely a change that would get me to switch from ios back to android.
I have no interest in owning separate headphones for my phone from everything else.
Little easily lost adapters are not really a more elegant solution.you wouldn't need separate headphones, but merely something like this:
I think the iPhone 7 will be a 4 style change, so wouldn't actually be surprised for this to happen.
Wireless earbuds as standard and it won't be as big a deal as if it happened when this rumour first surfaced, if anything it will be seen as ahead of the curve.
People will complain but Apple tend to ditch things at the right time, it never hurts them.
Little easily lost adapters are not really a more elegant solution.
If they kill the headphone jack for the sake of making it fully-waterproof, then I am in.
How many people using Bluetooth headphones give a shit? Less than 1%? It's minor.
And again, this doesn't remove wired as an option.
I would imagine Apple is attempting to remove corded headphones altogether. Goes off the trademarks of AirPods two months ago: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/01/airpods-trademark/
Good riddance I say. I cannot stand corded headphones and if it weren't for spotty transmission in wireless sets, I would have dumped normal headphones a long time ago.
They just bought Beats, why would they do this?
Dumb rumour.
Existing headphones won't just suddenly become useless. They'll have adapters and converter cables.
Has there been precedent of Apple arbitrarily introducing any kind of connector for the sheer sake of going proprietary?
They introduced lightning because USB-C hadn't been around and MicroUSB is a shit connector.
And thunderbolt is more capable in some ways than USB 3.0 / type-C afaik.
If the standard connector serves their requirements, they're fine with adopting the standard, see USB-C on the new MacBook, HDMI and USB 3.0 on Macbook Pros.
I don't see this happening, it'd be in no way a good business idea for Apple. The "3rd party headphone" market isn't as big as it'd be profitable for Apple to do that kind of split, like they did with the "accessories" market.
even thinner?
So you can bend it even more?
Give me headphones that you don't have to fuck about, charging and syncing any day.
Would be incredibly dumb.
I don't see it happening. Even Apple can't be this ridiculous. Surely.
Apple doesn't give a fuck about legacy stuff. They've proven that time and time again.
Just give me an adaptor. I do think the current headphone jacks are woefully outdated. Aren't they over 40 years old?
Apple doesn't give a fuck about legacy stuff. They've proven that time and time again.
Just give me an adaptor. I do think the current headphone jacks are woefully outdated. Aren't they over 40 years old?
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Daring Fireball made a good point that the depth is a sticking point too, not just width.
if they stayed with your headphones they wou;dn't be as easily lostLittle easily lost adapters are not really a more elegant solution.
There's an old saying: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.Further proof that people upset about this possible change are being hyperbolic.
That was pretty lame.What's new?
It's thinner.
You know those sturdy ubiquitous headphone jacks, this is the opposite. Amazing right!
You know what else is amazing, 16GB of storage in 2016.
Pre order today.
Amen. Interface that has been around for over a century and people are complaining about it being sunseted in favor of something better, with an adapter available for legacy users.
Sheesh.
Except that the reason it would be replaced isn't for higher quality or more features really, it's to shave a completely unnoticeable bit off the phone yet again just so they can claim it's thinner. I'm personally sick of the thinness bullshit because at this point I want more battery.
That was pretty lame.
Why are they so pathologically obsessed with making everything thinner anyway? The iPhone 6 is thin enough
But that's the idea that drives smaller and smaller computers. They do this and make it the standard and over time everyone accepts it and moves on. And in the long run it allows more stuff to be crammed into the tiny space.Could phone companies just fucking stop with the thinness bullshit? Seriously, it doesn't need to be any thinner. It just fucking doesn't. Give me more battery, not a more thin phone. It's perfectly fine as it is. Taking out useful ports just to try and make things thinner is well beyond insanity at this point.