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This afternoon, Apple finally confirmed the rumors that have been circulating the internet for months now: the iPhone 7 will be without a traditional headphone jack. So what does this mean for anyone who still uses headphones with the standard 3.5-millimeter jack? Absolutely nothing.
Apple said during their presentation that this was a major change, even going so far as to say that the company had “courage” for pulling such a move on the unsuspecting masses. I don’t know if removing the headphone jack from a phone qualifies as “courageous,” but I do know this: with every iPhone 7, Apple is including a set of corded headphones that plug directly into the Lightning port in the device. Apple is also including a converter that plugs into the Lightning port which will allow you plug in your archaic corded headphones if you so choose. See? It’s not all bad. Plus Apple just introduced “AirPods”, which are exactly what they sound like. Wireless earbuds that sync up with your iPhone automatically.
Get all of your stupid “can’t wait to lose these” jokes out while you can. By next year all of us are going to have these fucking things and there really isn’t anything you can do about it unless you want to be a serf with a Droid. I’m going to keep my iPhone 6 until it dies because I definitely can’t afford a 7 right now, but I’ll definitely have one when the 7s comes out and the regular ass iPhone 6s go on sale. Don’t worry, guys. When has Apple ever steered us wrong before? Between the no headphone jack thing and the water resistance Apple is just one step closer to world domination. .
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Will the new phones still have shitty U2 songs on them?
Don’t give them ideas.
I won’t go into too many details, because 90% of the people here don’t care, but it’s actually a bigger deal than it sounds like because by moving away from the standardized model, it also makes a heavier reliance on converters and the like which means no other headphones will ever sound the way they were intended to. Not a big deal if you always want to use Apple products, but those Bose headphones someone spent all the money on will only be as good as the converter instead of being as good as the sound from the source and the headphones.
Where did you read this nonsense? I’m no iPhone advocate but I’m pretty sure their sound output quality hasn’t gotten worse just by using an adapter.
I wish I could cite my sources, but these articles started appearing months ago before it was even a sure thing. Basically the sound is being put out in a different format now. And it’s not even necessarily worse, but it will be different. Where this really hurts is third party adapters that will inevitably come about from people not wanting to buy what will likely be a part upwards of $80. Also signal quality always goes down the more switches and possible points of interference that you have to go through. I’m not sure why you would believe otherwise.
At best, the adapter is another potential point of failure. This is a money grab, pure and simple.
That being said, once everything moves to a fully digital signal, the sound quality will improve, I just doubt the standard will ever be lightning port.
1) The adapter is $9.
2) It’s just a lightning connector to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter.
Do you think the apple headphones running through the apple connector are somehow different than your regular headphones OTHER than the connector? Not a chance.
They simply did away with the 3.5mm analog output port because the lightning connector (and USB Type-C) for that matter make it 100% redundant.
Announcements like these make me miss my Razr. The good ole days.
Guys it’s 2016 if Apple wants to identify as having no holes who are we to judge them?
Waiting for Apple to make the Bluetooth to audio jack adapter. $79.99
I’m going to just kick back and enjoy using my Moto X that’s 3 years old because fuck dropping $600 on a new phone with a slightly nicer screen.
My biggest annoyance is that if I ever want to connect my phone to any kind of sound system that doesn’t include a lightning port, I’ll be SOL. The headphone port isn’t some Apple-only protocol, it’s literally an industry standard that’s used everywhere.
Fuck Apple for doing this. I’m holding on to my 6S for dear life (also, fuck Apple for auto upgrading the 6S storage capacities, fucking over everyone who bought one in the last year) and once it dies I’m switching to Android. Also, selling my stock shortly.
Hold the stock a few more months man. Sell on the holiday and release hype. Then stock up on Alibaba to make Jack Ma even richer.
Yeah pretty much. Shortly means a few weeks/months. I wouldn’t sell now, not until there’s some sort of shipment numbers to hopefully push it up even more.
You know what they say, sell the news.
Crap, now I need a car with Bluetooth so I can charge my phone and listen to music
Exactly. The same problem will exist trying to listen to music while charging, for instance, on a plane, subway, etc.
Yeah… I’ll hold onto my perfectly good 5S and wait to see how the 8 turns out.
I don’t even have an iPhone and I’m kinda pissed it doesn’t include a jack.