[Headphone jack] What's with all the apple hate?

[DeslotlCL]

No headphone jack = inferior product.

No wonder why samsung is selling more phones than apple.

 

[Gourmet]

Maybe they have wired headphones that work just fine?

 

[duffmmann]

I'm sure you have different and countless reasons to hate Apple. I'm not particularly fond of the company myself. But there's something I just can't understand: no audio jack = tragedy

The audio jack was made decades ago and it's now obsolete. It was just taking up space. I mean, we are talking about a device that felt necessary to switch from a micro sim to a nano sim to gain those free 1-2 millimeters of more space.
Bluetooth cans are now good enough to be on par with midrange wired headphones for a decent price. I had 60 bucks pioneer headphones that worked just fine. You could say that you don't have to spend so much for a pair of headphones to get decent audio quality, sure, but why are you getting a phone that costs several times more then?

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If that's true why are fantastic wired headsets still made by all sorts of companies? They aren't obsolete, you just happen to have moved on to bluetooth. But wired headphones are still a viable option, and still at this point, the absolute best quality sound you can get from headphones are going to be from a high-end pair of wired ones.

Beyond that, no one else is dropping the audio jack, I'll take a Galaxy S8 over the iPhone 7 in a heartbeat, hell I'd take the Galaxy S7 over the iPhone 7 in a heartbeat. Furthermore, I have a few stereos with aux-in connections that I use all the time to play my music from my phone, sure you could argue that I should just get a stereo with a bluetooth connection, but why bother with that, when it costs me nothing extra to just use the aux-in connection?

Apple just made a really stupid decision is all in an attempt to make more money by having consumers buy their bluetooth headphones, but the backlash was bad and strong, so I wouldn't be surprised for a second if the iPhone 8 brings back the headphone jack. If I were to consider getting an iPhone right now, I'd get an iPhone 6S over an iPhone 7 in a heartbeat. They really fucked up in my opinion with that "brave" choice as they put it.

 

[nxwing]

Maybe they have wired headphones that work just fine?

Indeed there are but those cost more and shorten the lifespan of the Lightning port

 

[BARNWEY]

1 2 3 4 I declare a flame war

 

[Dionicio3]

1 2 3 4 I declare a flame war

How bout no?

 

[Flame]

Windows Phone Yay

 

[spotanjo3]

I'm sure you have different and countless reasons to hate Apple. I'm not particularly fond of the company myself. But there's something I just can't understand: no audio jack = tragedy

The audio jack was made decades ago and it's now obsolete. It was just taking up space. I mean, we are talking about a device that felt necessary to switch from a micro sim to a nano sim to gain those free 1-2 millimeters of more space.
Bluetooth cans are now good enough to be on par with midrange wired headphones for a decent price. I had 60 bucks pioneer headphones that worked just fine. You could say that you don't have to spend so much for a pair of headphones to get decent audio quality, sure, but why are you getting a phone that costs several times more then?

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Just ignored them. They are baby. Do what you want. They are worse than an insects, you know.

 

[DeoNaught]

It's just preference, some people dont have Bt head/earphones yet, so they just hate 'cause they can.
But Apple did at least add basically a usb jack for thier phone for people who dont have bt.

 

[dpad_5678]

The audio jack was made decades ago and it's now obsolete

What? Haha it's in like every electronic apart from the iPhone 7 and Moto Z. Honestly, is that a joke?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I'm sure you have different and countless reasons to hate Apple. I'm not particularly fond of the company myself. But there's something I just can't understand: no audio jack = tragedy

The audio jack was made decades ago and it's now obsolete. It was just taking up space. I mean, we are talking about a device that felt necessary to switch from a micro sim to a nano sim to gain those free 1-2 millimeters of more space.
Bluetooth cans are now good enough to be on par with midrange wired headphones for a decent price. I had 60 bucks pioneer headphones that worked just fine. You could say that you don't have to spend so much for a pair of headphones to get decent audio quality, sure, but why are you getting a phone that costs several times more then?

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You can't be serious.
Bluetooth headphones are nice and all but they are no replacement for a good wired pair. Due to heavy compression quality is lower compared to wired headphones.
And what if you want a pair of headphones that works on everything? Not all devices support Bluetooth.

 

[Columbo2811]

http://www.everysecond.io/apple

Sent from my apple iphone 7 no headphone jack edition

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

The headphone jack is essential for me on a phone, TV, laptop or what have you so the latest overpriced iPhone not having a headphone jack was seriously a moronic idea.

 

[Dionicio3]

This video pretty much explains everything

 

[GerbilSoft]

Let's compare "old" vs. "new".

"New":


"Old":


I much prefer the "old" keyboard, even though the "new" one is, in fact, newer. (More key travel, better tactile feedback, and curved keycaps, among other things.)

"New" is not necessarily "better".

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

I love Apple for making smartphones that, with 2 GB RAM, lag less than a 6 GB RAM Android phone. I love them for having an optimized OS, unlike Windblows which doesn't know this word. I like Apple for having devices with no viruses. I like Apple for supporting old Macs 8 years after their release, since I had a mid-2009 MBP which worked under Mac OS X El Capitan with hardly any slowdown.

I don't like Apple for having overpriced devices and low-end GPUs on Macs. (even if nothing will ever be as overpriced as the utterly smelly bullshit named Surface Book).

I like Apple for having good, reliable phones despise their high price. And for having actual updates (yeah, unlike my father's Samsung Galaxy Niote II-LTE which did Jelly Bean-Jelly Bean while it can perfectly run LineageOS 14 on Abdroid Nougat 7.1.2).

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Let's compare "old" vs. "new".
I much prefer the "old" keyboard, even though the "new" one is, in fact, newer. (More key travel, better tactile feedback, and curved keycaps, among other things.)

"New" is not necessarily "better".

I absolutely HATE high key travel. When I use mechanical keyboards at school, I feel like typing on a 10th century typing machine keyboard.

 

[Columbo2811]

Let's compare "old" vs. "new".

"New":


"Old":


I much prefer the "old" keyboard, even though the "new" one is, in fact, newer. (More key travel, better tactile feedback, and curved keycaps, among other things.)

"New" is not necessarily "better".

Moving on is hard. Knowing when to move on is harder.


Anyway on this topic who gives a shit. If you want a headphone jack don't buy a bloody iPhone, I'm sure Apple isn't struggling and losing sales. In 20 years time we will be telling are kids/grandkids how hard we had it and we used to have to plug are headphones in with a wire when we were young.

 

[GerbilSoft]

I absolutely HATE high key travel. When I use mechanical keyboards at school, I feel like typing on a 10th century typing machine keyboard.

I take it you don't type that much then. I can't stand the ridiculously flat keyboards, especially when the keycaps are also flat.

Moving on is hard. Knowing when to move on is harder.

Please explain why I have to "move on" from a high-quality IBM Model M to "flat" keyboards.

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

I take it you don't type that much then. I can't stand the ridiculously flat keyboards, especially when the keycaps are also flat.

Actually I type much slower with a mechanical keyboard. I find it easier with flat keyboards since the key press is much faster

 

[Hayleia]

I take it you don't type that much then. I can't stand the ridiculously flat keyboards, especially when the keycaps are also flat.

He does. I see him spam on TI Planet's chat daily. And I have to type quite some amount of bullshit to stay in the top spammers there.