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jungmark said:

slprescott said:

jfc1138 said:

slprescott said:

Personally I am very excited by all the newly announced products, but I've been involved in 2 conversations with people who focused almost entirely on one fact: "no 3.5mm audio jack."  Personally I'm fine with that change, but I don't think Apple has sufficiently controlled the message that is affecting public perspective (for some people).

Had you pointed out the headphone port is actually still there? Just now its called the Ligjtning Port?

Good point.

Yes, and I explained that Apple was including a converter dongle with the iPhone. And that's exactly my point: there ARE good responses to people who are upset about the missing audio jack, but I don't think Apple presented this transition in a way that left the right impression on many casual observers of the news. I want a broad set of people to be excited about iPhone 7 -- as I am -- but I see a few early indicators that some people came away with a disproportionate focus on the one thing they view as a negative.

Or the tech media purposely obfuscated these facts just to stay relevant. 

Not everyone watches the presentation. A truly reliable and objective media would report the facts instead of FUD. 

Exactly. I was watching a local tech reporter here in LA, the morning of the iPhone launch, and the tech reporter which is usually quite good, Rich Demuro who knew damn well that lightning ear pods would be included as well as an adopter with every iPhone purchase, but he kept teasing between every break before his segment that Apple was leaving everyone in the lerch.
The news anchors were kinda shocked and asked him point blank about the ear pods and he kept coy with them. With them and however number of viewers on LA's top rated local morning news show that Apple was screwing them. 
Niow I understand about teasing and click-bait and advertising revenue, but properly informing your audience comes first. All the scare tactics and sensationalism is par for the course but c'mon, if the news anchor asks if Apple is including functional ear pods, just say yes and that an adopter will be there free also instead of leading everyone on, and frankly purpously messing with the sales of a company. It's not minor thing. 

Its not not a minor thing what all these click-bate focused doofuses have done. 

Walt Mossberg was a "real" noted and respected journalist before he himself invented tech journalism. He is funny, charming and intelligent...
The new bunch, Nily Patel included, have no business or credentials to talk than anyone here. His whole bizzare drunk rant on the 3.5 jack, ..basically calling it a crime against humanity is how far down a trench tech journalism has gone down since Walt came on the scene.

Great article. I've been seeing the same thing. And the main problem I see, is that the current crop of "tech journalists" are all cronies. They all come from the same places and know each other personally and care what they and  their friends in the community think and say rather than truly inform the consumer.

It's also about youngish writers with no real credentials to advise anyone on anything. It's become an echo-chamber where they think they can create a narrative instead of just report on the products. 
It's a smug opinionated little clique, tjat loves the smell of their own farts, that even go on each other's podcasts just to kiss each other's asses instead of being a forum to inform consumers. 

On a bright note, it's always great to see that consumer ignore their narrative, and that time proves their conclusions ridiculously wrong every time.

It's the right call. It's an enormous undertaking and Apple needs to focus on studying the underlying tech with basic research first. And let's not forget that new battery technology is blooming in different directions. 
They need far more time in the basic research stage before even thinking they are putting anything under production. 

The jet black one is sexy. Now that's something we haven't seen in an iPhone since the 5 series.

Apple is bringing sexy back.