by Flack » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:03 am
Apple may end up losing me as a customer over this new "no headphone jack" thing.
As I'm sure all of you know, the new iPhones (7+) no longer have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Apple has given three reasons for removing this jack: it makes the phones thinner, it allows them to make the phones more waterproof, and... well, Apple says it's time for to go.
As for the first, I can't imagine how much thinner iPhones will be without the 3.5mm jack. More super thinnerish? I have an iPhone 6+, the largest (at that time) phone Apple made. When people saw it for the first time they said THAT'S FUCKING BIG! It's amazingly thin. It's so thin that people were worried about it bending in their pocket because it is so thin. Do we need thinner phones? No we do not.
They say that the lightning port is more waterproof than the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack. They spent a billion dollars figuring this out. The people who made the case I have now spent 4 cents on a small piece of rubber that coves the headphone jack and keeps water out. I don't feel removing a port I use every day is the solution. People get eye infections from time to time. The solution is not to remove your eyeballs.
The worst reason given by Apple is that... well, it's time for it to go. The headphone jack has run its course. There are other things we have been using for a while that we still use, like wheels, and fire, and we still use them today. Apple points to their previous decision to remove the floppy drive from their computers. The 1998 iMac shipped without a floppy drive, forcing users to move to USB solutions (they also removed their external SCSI port). Yay! Apple rid the world of floppy disks! Except, they didn't. We continued using floppy disks at work for years. When PCs joined the trend and began removing floppy drives, we had to buy USB floppy drives for people to use. I still have one in my drawer, "just in case."
The new iPhones come with a Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter so that you can use your old headphones with the new phones. That's great, until you lose it. Also, because there is only one adapter, you can't charge your phone and use wired headphones at the same time -- something I do all the time. Now, third party companies are releasing Y-Adapters to allow you to do this. What's the point of making your phones thinner if you have to have two adapters daisy chained just to get back to the functionality you had a few weeks ago?
BTW, the iPhone 6 is 6.9mm thick and the iPhone 7 is 7.1mm thick. So they took away the headphone jack and made the phone thicker instead of thinner. Thanks, Apple.
My wife has an expensive pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones that she uses every day for work. I have three different pairs of headphones/earbuds that I use, depending on the situation. My kids each have headphones. I don't want to spend another $500 on new headphones to replace working headphones after upgrading phones.
Apple's next phone needs to include a new feature that keeps my head from exploding.
Apple may end up losing me as a customer over this new "no headphone jack" thing.
As I'm sure all of you know, the new iPhones (7+) no longer have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Apple has given three reasons for removing this jack: it makes the phones thinner, it allows them to make the phones more waterproof, and... well, Apple says it's time for to go.
As for the first, I can't imagine how much thinner iPhones will be without the 3.5mm jack. More super thinnerish? I have an iPhone 6+, the largest (at that time) phone Apple made. When people saw it for the first time they said THAT'S FUCKING BIG! It's amazingly thin. It's so thin that people were worried about it bending in their pocket because it is so thin. Do we need thinner phones? No we do not.
They say that the lightning port is more waterproof than the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack. They spent a billion dollars figuring this out. The people who made the case I have now spent 4 cents on a small piece of rubber that coves the headphone jack and keeps water out. I don't feel removing a port I use every day is the solution. People get eye infections from time to time. The solution is not to remove your eyeballs.
The worst reason given by Apple is that... well, it's time for it to go. The headphone jack has run its course. There are other things we have been using for a while that we still use, like wheels, and fire, and we still use them today. Apple points to their previous decision to remove the floppy drive from their computers. The 1998 iMac shipped without a floppy drive, forcing users to move to USB solutions (they also removed their external SCSI port). Yay! Apple rid the world of floppy disks! Except, they didn't. We continued using floppy disks at work for years. When PCs joined the trend and began removing floppy drives, we had to buy USB floppy drives for people to use. I still have one in my drawer, "just in case."
The new iPhones come with a Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter so that you can use your old headphones with the new phones. That's great, until you lose it. Also, because there is only one adapter, you can't charge your phone and use wired headphones at the same time -- something I do all the time. Now, third party companies are releasing Y-Adapters to allow you to do this. What's the point of making your phones thinner if you have to have two adapters daisy chained just to get back to the functionality you had a few weeks ago?
BTW, the iPhone 6 is 6.9mm thick and the iPhone 7 is 7.1mm thick. So they took away the headphone jack and made the phone thicker instead of thinner. Thanks, Apple.
My wife has an expensive pair of Bose noise cancelling headphones that she uses every day for work. I have three different pairs of headphones/earbuds that I use, depending on the situation. My kids each have headphones. I don't want to spend another $500 on new headphones to replace working headphones after upgrading phones.
Apple's next phone needs to include a new feature that keeps my head from exploding.