nolamacguy

BxBorn said:

polymnia said:

Beats acquisition looks better every day. 

why? because improved battery life and faster pairing means you can listen to subpar audio quality faster and for a longer period of time?

christopher126 said:

IBM, HP and now RIM have shifted to "Services." That's good for them. In that it's a lot easier to BS people than to actually make products that people want.

DesignNev said:

nolamacguy said:

this shouldn't need to be stated but, it doesn't matter if "other phones" have water seals -- they aren't operating within the design and confines of this device, the iphone. obviously there will be a great many differences -- such as the haptic engine, shell, etc. the constraints of one brand aren't thusly the same for every other design. 

again, why on earth would i doubt the senior apple hardware guy who actually is an engineer and actually works on this product?

i guess i'm struggling to understand your point...you think there should be a 10% bigger bettery from the space saved. but instead we got better cameras, a better image processor, water seals, and a somewhat larger battery. and that's prompting you to complain and/or suggest people instead want just a larger battery?

Just as you should with me, you should take what the Senior Apple hardware guy has to say with a grain of salt. Water-proofing a headphone jack CAN be done. There is no question about it so already he is bending the truth or perhaps not being clear with his statements.  

With regards to what I am stating is that "we got better cameras, a better image processor, water seals" not by removing the headphone jack but just through refined engineering. This is pretty obvious. The "somewhat larger battery" is due to the headphone jack being removed but it was made smaller in the iPhone 6s from the iPhone 6 due to Taptic and 3D touch.  Some users don't even notice Taptic and 3D touch from their previous iPhones and don't even know it exists. They do notice battery life or headphone port being missing. 

News flash: iPhone 7 removes lightning port. Sync via iCloud and use wireless charging. Greg Joswiak Apple VP says "we needed the space for the better camera/battery/slimmer design/IP69 rating".  

DesignNev said:

@flaneur Funny you should talk about "going from telegraph to radio". Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell patented the telephone at the same time and that's interesting as bluetooth headsets haven't just been invented. In fact, Apple have covered this already:

Jobs introduced us to "incredibly small" bluetooth headset that "pairs automatically" and "automatically goes to sleep". "It's really simple"

2007 Apple Bluetooth headset:
5.5 hours of talk time

2016 Apple Airpods:
2 hours of talk time and 5 hours of audio playback

I would agree it doesn't have the fancy bluetooth specs and noise cancelling of today but competitors at the time, like Jawbone, did have noise cancelling. And the Apple bluetooth headset was a failure. Is the W1 chip really 9 years worth of technology development? This tech is not in its infancy and is going to dramatically improve next year or the year after. The worst part about all this, the Airpods are getting slated by most tech critics and Apple are notorious for not updating accessories. As @Deelron says, "The horse is dead, and it's not coming back" and that worries me as it might be 3-5 years before we see W2 and an updated Airpods that don't suck.

How about Apple launch a fancy World changing bluetooth headset. Then down the road when everyone loves it, remove the jack. The Mac App Store was launched in Jan 2011 then in mid-2012 Apple removed the optical drive from their most popular laptop, the Macbook Pro then the iMac in late 2012.

Steve Jobs was great at understanding people and the compromises to make on their behalf before then even knew it. There are similarities between "Courage" and "Foolishness" but the differences matter.