bobschlob

apple ][ said:

bobschlob said:

Overwhelming majority of people have never cared about 'any' of Apple's technological advancements, until 'after' the fact. Then, of course, it just seems obvious.

Maybe Apple should begin selling hi-res versions of songs on iTunes, so that their push to "higher quality" audio would make more sense.

I have many headphones, with some of them costing many hundreds of dollars, and they sound pretty decent. I just remain suspicious of the reasoning behind going to lightning audio as being because of the audio quality.

apple ][ said:

bobschlob said:

As to the actual issue; I look forward to the improved audio quality and feature set that lightning audio will provide.
And I'm fine with a small adapter for my older analog cans.

The overwhelming majority of people (probably more than 99%) do not give a crap about audio quality.

Are they going to be listening to compressed Mp4s and Mp3s via their lightning headphones? That sounds quite ironic.

I admit that I haven't read much about audio through lightning yet, but I remain skeptical.

apple ][ said:

AppleInsider said:

Notably the schematics also imply that both iPhone 7 models will ditch a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, turning to Bluetooth and Lightning connections instead.

I am not convinced that that is a good idea.

There have been so many issues with Bluetooth and audio. A recent issue that was in the news was with the iPhone SE and certain cars.

Wireless audio is simply not good enough or reliable enough IMO.

One issue that is a huge pain in the ass is Bluetooth latency. I can not stand any latency at all, and nothing is worse than watching a video where the audio is late.

The other day I was watching some TV on my iPad and I sent the audio to a soundbar via bluetooth, and what you end up with is terrible audio that is out of sync with the video. Whatever you are watching ends up looking like a cheap, dubbed kung fu movie.

There are also countless issues with bluetooth headphones and latency.

apple ][ said:

One of my dreams is to become so rich that I would be able to take a private jet and fly over to Europe for example, and have dinner, and then fly back home when I'm done eating.

When I get back home, I will lecture people on how this Planet is doomed, and how everybody needs to do their part in saving the environment. I will claim that all automobiles are evil, and that everybody should only ride bikes in the future. I of course will have my own fleet of limos and super cars, but that's because I need to travel around to eco conferences and lecture the under class on how they should live.

I will also claim that oil is evil, while at the same time getting funding from middle eastern, oil producing, extremist countries. I might even sell my company to them, for the right price. I'll probably also make a few movies, about some poor polar bears living on a sheet of 2' x 2' ice. If I can't get any real footage to suit my narrative, I'll just CGI the whole damn movie. The idiot public and the intended audience wont really care, so it makes no difference.

techprod1gy said:

I could care less like most about what this D bag uses. Just to share my experience with the S7 Edge. I used this for a couple weeks to see where things were at compared to my iPhone 6s+. I thought the screen and camera were really good. The rest of the phone felt cheap to me. The operating system was pretty good overall. I found that I continued to have accidental input from the main bottom button and the touch sensitive buttons on each side which was my main complaint with the experience. I would say the ecosystem from Apple is ahead of what Android is although it is not by a large margin. When you put physical hardware, software and ecosystem all together Apple wins by a pretty good margin. I will admit it is not a completely fair assessment since I have been all Apple for decades.