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Re: iPhone 7

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Post by usaphp »

artmageddon wrote: post #3

$160 for the AirPods? My goodness those are expensive.

I recently paid $350+ for Bose wireless noise cancelling headphones, the problem with over the ear headphones is that I can't wear them for a long time while I work for example, my head become hot and I want to hear what is around. I like the weight of the regular iphone headphones, I can wear them indefinitely, I am pretty sure case will be the same with AirPods, so I think the price is justified.

Re: iPhone 7

#12

Post by apendleton »

slg wrote: post #5

I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…

USB is a good counterexample, though. They started pushing USB for all peripherals before anybody else, and before there was a good market for peripherals that supported it. The market emerged soon thereafter, though, and other companies were ditching their parallel ports, etc., within a year or two.

Re: iPhone 7

#13

Post by plg »

AirPods - so is walking around with a thing in your ear cool now? Around here it certainly still signals "I am a jackass"

Re: iPhone 7

#15

Post by artmageddon »

dijit wrote: post #9
romanovcode wrote: post #2

Still no MacBook. What a shame.

Agreed, but the event isn't over yet I think. I've been looking for over a year for a good (build quality) laptop which can run a unix-like environment. And I always end up circling back to macbooks, which have been comprised of very old hardware for quite some time now. Hard to justify spending so much money for a 3/4 year old CPU. The alternative is to have a machine that requires more maintenance than my 5/6 year…

From MacRumors live stream:

11:59 am For those joining in late, there have been no announcements about the MacBook Pro or other Macs as expected.

Re: iPhone 7

#16

Post by usaphp »

slg wrote: post #5

I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…

> "but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward"

Most of my friends are using bluetooth headphones nowadays.

Re: iPhone 7

#17

Post by k2xl »

Honest question - Aren't IPhones already pretty water resistant?

Unless getting dunked in water, I haven't heard of anyone having any issues with water damaging their IPhone.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

slg wrote: post #5

I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…

I thought they might replace the headphone jack with a USB-C connector. Then they could do the same thing on the MacBook and it'd have two USB-C ports.

But instead they chose Lightning, so now we have iPhone headphones and Android headphones.

Why did it have to be this way?

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