tundraboy

Every new tidbit about how Facebook operates reinforces the belief that Facebook is Evil.

king editor the grate said:

rob53 said:

… there's nothing "rich" about anything from Google.

7a: ENTERTAINING

also : LAUGHABLE

Except its founders and top execs.

I suspect Apple is hewing to its usual practice of not releasing a product until the tech has caught up with what they believe an Apple product should offer.  I would think battery and self-driving technology are the laggards holding them back.

From a pocket transistor radio in the 70s, through the Walkman cassette player era, then iPod, and onto the dumb then smart phone eras, the 3.5mm port was invariably the initial point of failure for all the devices I owned since I was 12.  It's easy to see why.  The electrical contacts in the socket depended on spring loaded pressure to maintain a tight connection with the jack.  That spring eventually loosens up, especially if you use the earphones constantly with the device in your pocket where the exposed end of the jack is subject to lateral forces that make it rock back and forth while plugged in (and thus constantly flexing the spring loaded contacts).  So it starts with signal cutting in and out as the electrical contact loosens until eventually there's no connection at all.  Thus, a device that is otherwise in perfect order becomes useless because one of its cheapest components broke.  Good riddance on the 3.5 mm jack.

I'd much prefer they apply flexible screen technology on large flat screen TVs so you can fold or roll those monstrosities and hide them when they're not in use.