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AppleExposed said:

(I don't care if i sound repetitive) NO FORTNITE APPLE TV SUPPORT!? Like WTF?

Apple really dropped the ball this gen.

wood1208 said:

What a company got to do, it got to do. Strategically, USA/European tech companies are better off manufacture products somewhere else who don't steal IP,copy there products and sells back cheap. China is going to drain everyone to become world's largest manufacturer and economic superpower.

jkichline said:

MisterKit said:

Referring to the 3.5mm jack as a headphone jack is a misunderstanding. The 3.5mm jack is a two channel analog audio output. Headphones are just one specific example for how that 3.5mm jack can be used.

There are too many examples to list as to how this elimination will affect users. Here’s one that would affect me regularly. You’re having a music rehearsal. You pull up some Apple Music, You Tube videos, whatever, as a group is working out a song. The audio MUST be fed into a sound system for this to be useful. Okay. So I buy a USB-C to two channel analog audio output adapter and guess what! My iPad is running low on charge! Oops. Better have a dock so I can charge and have a two channel analog audio output at the same time.

Hopefully I am making a point. The 3.5mm two channel analog audio output cannot be worked around like a floppy or optical drive could be.

Sound tech here... while I agree with you on convenience, I don’t agree with you on the tech. Analog signal paths are preventing the live sound industry from leapfrogging forward. Digital is the state of the art and the future. While your sound system may require analog inputs, not all do.  Many consoles have USB interfaces. Guess what? Connect that to this hub and you get multiple channels of audio, or input digital audio directly into your digital console without decoding/encoding with possible loss of quality.

Pulling audio from a headphone jack has some issues. For starters, the left and right channels are not well shielded on iOS devices causing the channels to mix. You don’t get proper channel isolation. You also have to set the level so you don’t get distortion by overdriving the channel. You have to worry about noise in the line, etc.

When you use a professional audio interface, you get a better DAC (digital audio converter) to analog, or you keep the audio digital through the signal path which is much cleaner. Plus you can accomplish something around 96 channels of I/O with USB 3.0. 

Excellent, well thought out response.   Careful though... injecting logic and clear thinking in this forum is (apparently) against the rules. :-)

matt behnken said:

Bootcamp is free. Windows 10 is free. 

elijahg said:

Soli said:

macgui said:

The Walkie-Talkie uses Face-TIme audio.

What wasn't mentioned here was the chirp or beep alert that you get on an incoming W-T. Like the Nextel phones, that could/will get annoying quick. I'd like the option to disable that alert tone and use the Taptic engine instead.

The Available Toggle is a good thing, but I'd like to see it part of the Watch's Control Center. It would be handier to use, I think.

I like the idea of a hand on the screen to deny a call. I'd also like to see a text automatically sent, either a canned 'Can't talk right now, will call you back' or a message you create.

The down side is that will probably be a bigger violation of Peace and Quiet Etiquette than the people who stand next to you and use the speaker phone, talking louder than they need to.

Unfortunately I think this might be stymied by that patent troll going after Apple's original peer to peer Facetime system. Apparently that's why it was never open-sourced either, since Apple has to provide server support for the backend.

Oh.my.gosh. It's a bit irrational, but I get really steamed at this kind of thing. Patent trolls need to go away.