Who is the aimed at? 4 or 5 years ago I could see it making sense but the world has moved on. I live in NYC so I see a lot of people walking around wearing headphones and it’s pretty rare to see anyone using headphones with cables. The few times I do, it’s usually someone using the free iPhone headphones with a 3.5mm to lightning adapter.
Angry nerds. Poor market penetration with previous Pixels means they can do whatever they want. It's a toy phone, they're not serious about market share. Pretty sure it's just an experiment until they roll out Fuchsia based phones.
Well they shut them selves in the foot. They are paying Apple to stay as a default search engine. Apple get a lot of sales and Google is struggling? Desperate
The company just set an all-time record revenue of $61.9 billion this quarter, and record profits for the fourth quarter in a row at $18.5 billion. Point of comparison, Apple's profit for this same quarter is $21.74 billion. Dang close. Every company wishes to struggle as much.
The headphone jack remains a killer feature for some and completely irrelevant for others. I've actually been using my 12 mini with a lightning adapter for various reasons for the past week or so and it's been a huge pain. If I had the option to upgrade to a small, modern iphone with a built in headphone jack, I'd absolutely pay up for it.
I wish more people talked about how good the dang DAC is in those little $10 dongles. It's kind of amazing for what it is
I thought the dongle made the bass boomy and muddy compared the DAC built into the iPhone 6, at least when used with the Sennheiser Momemtums I had at the time. It was like pressing the "MEGA BASS" button on old Sony boomboxes: sloppy bass. Didn't personally fit my taste. I later bought Sennheiser's lightning-port native Ambeo headphones with its own DAC.
I look forward to the elimination of all cables from the iPhone. Those physical ports always get gunked up with lint and the cables tend to snag on things. Plus the whole e-waste thing.
This was silly “funny”. But is anyone else TRULY over this headphone jack debate? My god, can we all get over the 3.5mm port? It’s old tech, it’s time to let it go. The number of people who actually need that port (musicians or designers, whatever) are far and few between. The most of the world does NOT “need” a headphone jack. I’m sick of hearing about it and I’m sick of this constant complaining from people it’s gone. For the few who need it, you have adapters. Now stop complaining because the majority of us don’t care. Bye.
Typical elitist commentary. "I don't need that, so the WORLD doesn't need that, since the vast majority of people are normal, like me. The rest of you peons can just do without. If you were actually important, like me, Apple would be catering to you. Besides, alternatives exist that cost more money, so where's the problem?" /s
Typical anti-elitist Luddite commentary. ‘Progress should stop because I lack the imagination to appreciate it. Also, change frightens and confuses me!’
This was silly “funny”. But is anyone else TRULY over this headphone jack debate? My god, can we all get over the 3.5mm port? It’s old tech, it’s time to let it go. The number of people who actually need that port (musicians or designers, whatever) are far and few between. The most of the world does NOT “need” a headphone jack. I’m sick of hearing about it and I’m sick of this constant complaining from people it’s gone. For the few who need it, you have adapters. Now stop complaining because the majority of us don’t care. Bye.
Typical elitist commentary. "I don't need that, so the WORLD doesn't need that, since the vast majority of people are normal, like me. The rest of you peons can just do without. If you were actually important, like me, Apple would be catering to you. Besides, alternatives exist that cost more money, so where's the problem?" /s
If you really believe this is a technology that is waning on small, handheld consumer devices then this Pixel 5a and other such devices will succeed in the marketplace and Apple's iPhone will suffer. If not, then you must admit that the market has spoken.
There's a reason why countless other adapters have fallen by the wayside despite some small group of adamant users felt that it was far too soon or there was no adequate alternative. Here, the only adequate argument is that ALAC is available via BT, but at least there's a wired connection available for those that want ALAC on their iPhones.
I think the ad is funny. However, is it really making fun of Apple?
How quickly people seem to forget that the FIRST commercial Android device, the G1 (aka the ADP1, codename: HTC Dream) lacked a headphone jack.
Released in October, 2008. 8 years before Apple followed Google's anti-pattern mis-design and dropped the headphone jack on the iPhone 7.
Dongles were terrible on the G1.
Dongles are still terrible on the more recent iPhones and donglebooks. I for one, wish Apple would bring back MagSafe to laptops too, USB-C is a less reliable connector than Lightning, and Lightning connectors are terribly unreliable.
If Apple fans are offended, it is only because apparently they never realized that Google started the trend to ditch headphone jacks. I hope this is an overdue return to sanity in a field of consumer electronics where feature parity is often a goal rather than thinking about users.
I do not believe that Steve Jobs would have ever let the iPhone 7 and later devices ship without headphone jacks. I do not believe that he would have endorsed dropping MagSafe either.
IMHO, Apple has been phoning it in, with disastrous results since Steve Jobs died.
On the subject of headphone jacks I'd definitely say they still have legs.
Every time I get a low power beep in a Bluetooth bud I remember how hassle free cable connections can be (I'm not a fan of adaptors). Plug in and forget, especially when used in a stationary context. And also when volume control is important (I'm looking at you Firestick). An in line volume control is always a surefire option.
They might not have legs, but the sure have the public’s ear.
I look forward to the elimination of all cables from the iPhone. Those physical ports always get gunked up with lint and the cables tend to snag on things. Plus the whole e-waste thing.
While definitely more convenient, "all wireless" is also less energy efficient. So it's either e-waste or energy wastage...
OK, that was funny. Silly, but well done. ߤ㦬t;/div>
Was it, though? The headphone jack story is 4 years old. And Ive last worked at Apple 2 years ago. Easily the single funniest thing was the aluminum pronunciation.
This was silly “funny”. But is anyone else TRULY over this headphone jack debate? My god, can we all get over the 3.5mm port? It’s old tech, it’s time to let it go. The number of people who actually need that port (musicians or designers, whatever) are far and few between. The most of the world does NOT “need” a headphone jack. I’m sick of hearing about it and I’m sick of this constant complaining from people it’s gone. For the few who need it, you have adapters. Now stop complaining because the majority of us don’t care. Bye.
Typical elitist commentary. "I don't need that, so the WORLD doesn't need that, since the vast majority of people are normal, like me. The rest of you peons can just do without. If you were actually important, like me, Apple would be catering to you. Besides, alternatives exist that cost more money, so where's the problem?" /s
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There's a reason why countless other adapters have fallen by the wayside despite some small group of adamant users felt that it was far too soon or there was no adequate alternative. Here, the only adequate argument is that ALAC is available via BT, but at least there's a wired connection available for those that want ALAC on their iPhones.