21yr_mac_user

About

Username
21yr_mac_user
Joined
Visits
12
Last Active
Roles
member
Points
45
Badges
0
Posts
85

Reactions

21Like0Dislike8Informative

  • HTC's new U series phones follow Apple's iPhone 7 in eliminating headphone jacks

    21yr_mac_user21yr_mac_user

    I haven't upgraded to the 7 because of the jack. I'm pissed they removed it for a profit grab. look at the tear down - in it's place is not a bigger battery as everyone claims - it's the large Taptic Engine for the click-less home button. As an engineer - it would be fairly easy to make a combo headphone jack and Taptic Engine if it was a priority. Not to mention the large barometric vent added. It is clear Apple just wanted to force us to buy beats headphones and expensive air pods that have to be charged. I use headphones seldom enough that they would always be out of battery - I do not want wireless headphones, and I want to plug it into all my existing speakers/audio systems. 

    This is profits profits profits 100% by a CEO who is a bean counter and saw a ton more beans to fleece from us - just because other companies are copying (what else is new) says nothing on the original decision.

    Life will go on - but I don't have to jump on the fanboy wagon and say it was a good decision - it was a naked profit grab and yet another "shaft the customer" move by the apple lately.
    Oh dear lord. 

    - the VP of engineering said specifically and clearly that they gained the ability to add better optics, battery, and water seals. You're saying he's lying? Read it and weep:

    https://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/inside-iphone-7-why-apple-killed-the-headphone-jack?utm_term=.nrnBxeXW0#.ofReQr9Oa
    ...

    Troll harder.
    The VP of engineering would say if you removed the battery, lighting port, vol switches, home button etc etc that " they gained the ability to add better optics, battery, and water seals" - duh that is a non argument and applies to most of the components in the phone.

    Why is a die hard apple user a troll if I think it was a poor decision and have valid reasons and concerns for apple doing so? Do you really believe the "courage" bit?

    This is a big difference then going from USB 2.0 to 3.1 connectors for example which are open and all companies are going to make.     This is taking away a 50 year open standard and replacing it with a proprietary apple lightning port that invalidates almost all of the headphones out there . (the dongles exist but it is not the port and most won't want to deal with them - and everyone knows it is a stop gap to prevent a huge outcry). I think the apple faithful are blind what a great injustice was done with this decision, and with everything apple does (despite the false rhetoric to the contrary), it ultimately comes down to $ - companies exist to make $ and apple expects to continue it huge margins at any cost.
    singularity

  • HTC's new U series phones follow Apple's iPhone 7 in eliminating headphone jacks

    21yr_mac_user21yr_mac_user
    I haven't upgraded to the 7 because of the jack. I'm pissed they removed it for a profit grab. look at the tear down - in it's place is not a bigger battery as everyone claims - it's the large Taptic Engine for the click-less home button. As an engineer - it would be fairly easy to make a combo headphone jack and Taptic Engine if it was a priority. Not to mention the large barometric vent added. It is clear Apple just wanted to force us to buy beats headphones and expensive air pods that have to be charged. I use headphones seldom enough that they would always be out of battery - I do not want wireless headphones, and I want to plug it into all my existing speakers/audio systems. 

    This is profits profits profits 100% by a CEO who is a bean counter and saw a ton more beans to fleece from us - just because other companies are copying (what else is new) says nothing on the original decision.

    Life will go on - but I don't have to jump on the fanboy wagon and say it was a good decision - it was a naked profit grab and yet another "shaft the customer" move by the apple lately.
    baconstangsingularity

  • Rumor again claims Apple's 'iPhone 7' will ditch headphone jack for Lightning EarPods, sport Smart

    21yr_mac_user21yr_mac_user
    The core issue is - 3.5mm headphone jacks have been around forever and are a standard for new and old legacy equipment. The replacement cycle for audio equipment is years to decades - it is a different industry then the fast paced computer industry and as such no comparison with the lighting or usb ports are truly relevant. Apple is good about forcing change the computer industry - but audio ports are *not* the computer industry - and it doesn't have the monopoly on audio peripherals that it does on computer peripherals . 

    I have speaker systems, professional headphones, amps, that are fine and I'll keep for decades and they use 3.5mm analog inputs. I'm not getting a phone that doesn't play nice with my legacy equipment. 

    Apple can easily make a waterproof compactor, shrink it some more and fit it somewhere - it trivial engineering, they are just being pig headed (again assuming this rumor is true!)
    cnocbui

  • Rumor again claims Apple's 'iPhone 7' will ditch headphone jack for Lightning EarPods, sport Smart

    21yr_mac_user21yr_mac_user
    volcan said:
    I guess I'll be buying an ugly dongle. I'm certainly not planning to replace my expensive noise cancelation headphones.
    I don't want a stupid dongle for my phone - it's not like a laptop accessory which you bring around in a bag - I'll never have it with me and I don't want to buy 10 of them for every jack in my house!. Also who wants to deal with charging their headphones - I use my once a month tops - which means I'm never gonna find them charged.

    If true, this is a gave grave mistake by apple. I'm not upgrading for as long as I can hold out over this. I think it will cost them tons of sales.
    cnocbui

  • PSA: If you don't want to fry your new MacBook, pay attention to the quality of your USB cables

    21yr_mac_user21yr_mac_user
    False info here: "The cables themselves are passive — save a resistor here and there — and aside from the quality of the plastic, there's very little to differentiate a cheap one from an expensive one. It's true, for instance, that Apple's $19 Lightning cable ..." Lightning cables have few chips in them. Thats why it took a good while before the knock-offs and official competitors to show up. I for one am wary of any 3rd party lightning cables - but maybe they have been cracked and will keep working, I admit I haven't tried. http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/16/lightning-cables-authentication-chip-found-to-offer-just-enough-security The apple lightning hdmi adapter even has an ARM processor! http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4055758/why-does-apples-lightning-to-hdmi-adapter-have-an-arm-computer-inside
    mac fanshamino