Bringing BACK The iPhone Headphone Jack - in China  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Moe
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 08:22:38 pm
content: c

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 08:30:57 pm
content: miss the third option"yes if it come with an adapter"then i would

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 08:49:52 pm
content: Forget the jack on the iPhone, bring back the flip phones.Our kids need a chance to learn to actually talk to their colleagues and get their face off their dumb phones.

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 09:27:58 pm
content: More Apple BS, blatantly p!ssing on their lemming customer base... againHELL0!!! What's the point of an OVERPRICED multimedia phone without a headphone socket?Quote from: Rick Law on September 06, 2017, 08:49:52 pmToo late, big bro owns them now

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 11:18:13 pm
content: That was very impressive. Too bad it was necessary in the first place. Apple - the Jonestown Cult for techno-Hipsters. It's amazing how people just keep drinking the Apple Kool-Aid.Hmm... Spudgers, Dremel, CNC router, binocular microscope... almost everything needed to perform brain transplant surgery on Apple executives, to make the company work right.Their long-running conceptual defect - continually remove essential interfaces, to delete functionality and force users to buy expensive add-ons, should be grounds for euthanasia.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 06, 2017, 11:58:07 pm
content: Quote from: Rick Law on September 06, 2017, 08:49:52 pmWell, I don't have friends, and if I do they are on the internet.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2017, 04:18:55 am
content: Quote from: Electro Detective on September 06, 2017, 09:27:58 pmYou are right. A few years back I was participating as a mentor for some high school freshman event. That dozen or so kids and the few adults were having lunch together sitting in a circle on the floor of a classroom size room. The kids were texting each other - no more than 10 feet apart from each other.I suppose for future job interviews, college will have to add a course on how to talk, how to listen, how to enunciate, how to emphasize, what intonation may convey... Such class meetings should be film and would be source material for a 22nd century version of "My Fair Lady"... scratch that, I mean "My Fair Person."

author: Howardlong
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2017, 09:58:51 am
content: FWIW, a couple of days ago the second iPhone 6 Plus in my household died this year of the now infamous Touch-IC disease (apparently 80% of iPhone 6 Plus failures are touch-IC disease). I had no plans to replace either, not even the increasing slowness of IOS had become intolerable on the devices, unlike some earlier generation iPads here, which are now fast becoming paper weights under the mass of an increasingly bloated OS.Normally, I'd go for the latest unit to minimise built in software obsolescence, and considered waiting for the iPhone 8 due out in the next week or two.But in both cases, I decided to replace them with the iPhone 6S Plus which is the latest with a 3.5mm jack, and apparently isn't affected by the touch-IC disease, at least to the same extent.The reason is that I have investment in headphones, and I have never had a reasonable experience with Bluetooth headsets (or many other Bluetooth devices for that matter), mostly around pairing, and that typically I want to be able to reliably and immediately be up and running with any host device. My use case, along with many others', is that I don't use devices like headsets with only one host. A few Bluetooth devices do accept multiple hosts which is an improvement, but they are in a minority.

author: lem_ix
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2017, 12:13:09 pm
content: Don't follow apple stuff so had no idea, thought it was great when manufacturers stopped putting those proprietary connectors.... Wonder what's next, maybe a monthly subscription to keep your phone operational? More on topic the video is great, he even included some drama

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2017, 12:45:13 pm
content: Apple will never keep up with logic or technology, in fact they blatently refuse to. They keep "innovating" aka ruining their tech in all the wrong ways by making them harder to use or adding trivial stupid stuff no one should really care about.They can only keep up the hipster sheeplefor so long before everything else totally surpasses them to the point their products are not even usable. No, I don't want them to improve, I want them to bankrupt!In fact that should be a utopian future movie, "The Day Apple Died" as millions ofpeoplesheeple, are slapped out of their enslavement to terrible tech. People hate on iphone destruction channels, well sheeple do, but I love them, that shit deserves to be taken out of the box and immediately obliterated.*walks off afterpicketing "Death to crApple!"*

author: RGB255_0_0
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2017, 08:34:01 pm
content: XPoint is faster and Apple don't make their flash. Retina is just a marketing term - it's FAR lower res than what's out there since Jobs announced it.

author: Howardlong
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2017, 05:55:44 am
content: Quote from: RGB255_0_0 on September 07, 2017, 08:34:01 pmThe retina thing when it comes to laptops (as opposed to earlier in phones) was a welcome market change. At the time resolution in laptops was actually worse than it had been three or four years earlier, for example it was not possible to buy a 15" FHD capable laptop in 2012 before the MBPr was released, but you could in 2008. Sony made an effort with a 13" FHD laptop slightly earlier in 2012, but that was it. Nowadays it's gone crazy, I have a 12.5" UHD tablet PC sitting here, completely unnecessary as FHD is ample at that size.