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"ports older than USB" meant serial and, later, ethernet. My new-issue Dell work laptop lacks an optical drive and Ethernet. My dad just bought an even beefier Dell laptop and the first thing he asked was "where's the DVD drive?" Dell offered to send him a free external USB optical drive, but told him that internal optical drives were simply not an option on that make of laptop.
Did Apple ever offer a laptop with a serial port?
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if your phone only has a 3.5mm jack, you will have to provide high quality audio through it (if you want to be able to sell it to people interested in listening to music on high quality earphones) if your phone only has a digital jack and a certification process, you can decide to provide high quality audio to your digital headphones and low quality audio to the 3.5mm adapter. It's not guaranteed that the DAC you are…
You cannot hear the difference in DACs on modern 16 bit devices. The difference in DAC quality is so far below your perception that any perceived difference is placebo. If you do not believe me, I strongly encourage you to perform a blinded ABX test. I, too, was surprised by the results.
I've generally been in favor of Apple's hardware changes; for example the original iMac helped the entire industry adopt USB and the Lightning connector is much better than the 30-pin connector (and has a number of advantages over the microUSB pretty much everyone else uses). I've been in favor of their video port changes (except microDVI on the original MacBook Air) even though it created problems for me and my colleagues at work. I'm unhappy about Ethernet being dropped from all their laptop models but it really was an obstacle in their physical design. This change seems unnecessary and I don't like how Lightning is on Apple devices only.
I'm not sure there's an evil DRM plot, I could totally believe Jonny Ive or some designer just didn't like this analog turd messing up the symmetry and digital purity of their designs, especially a connector that's 30+ years old.
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Amazon will serve me HD video on my smart TV using its Amazon app, but not on my computer using the same TV as a second monitor. And lest you think the problem is the computer, I can get it on my PC just fine using a regular computer monitor...it's a bummer to think about this sort of thing with simple audio as well.
Stop buying crippled content and download your shows without encumberances.
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>As an aside, what a strange creature is man that he wants to replace a device which is analogue by nature - ears not being digital after all - with a digital counterpart which is clearly sub-optimal, overly complex and fraught with potential restrictions Well, if you're hearing it it's ultimately become analog. The question is where does it become analog. I can legitimately understand that many people would like tha…
No, the conversion from digital to analogue can and should happen in the device itself to be able to use the analogue signal with the plethora of peripherals intended for this purpose, without any additional restrictions above those already in place. For those who want or need digital output this possibility already exists in more than one way - through USB and Bluetooth to give some examples - so this is not a valid…
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The argument I am disputing is that Apple is removing possibilities and connection adapters, not adding them.
They could certainly disable it with an update. "Look at all these new great features you get with this update! Oh, btw your old, obsolete headphone jack won't work with this version anymore... but look at all these new great features! It's entirely your decision, but don't you want all these great new features? Oh btw, here's a voucher for a discount on these awesome new air bud 2's!!"
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> How many times will it take you forgetting your dongle to just pony up and buy the apple approved headphones? Or do like I would do, which is buy an Android phone. I mean they only have 88% market share, how long will _they_ be around?
When Apple removed the floppy drive, CD drive, and ports older than USB, everyone else followed. What do you think is going to happen to Android phones' headphone jacks?
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So exclusive releases for specific hardware IDs are feasible. A not so far fetched Scenario extending on the exclusive iTunes release practice: Popular new Artist - New Album: Listen before everyone else exclusively on beats
Hasn't Apple for a decade fought against DRM the music companies insists on?
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If we ignore what they say, we can make up any conspiracy theory we like about them. Fun!
I'm not sure why you would want to make up conspiracy theories, but if you are considering whether a theory (conspiracy or otherwise) may be true, the non-actionable claims made by a marketing savvy company should not have any weight in your evaluation of that theory.
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I think Apple seriously underestimates its appeal towards creatives. I've been buying Apple products for 10 years because of their ease-of-use with creative software. As they slowly move away from PC's and professional media standards I see their market share diminishing. They are heading down the path of lowest common denominator just like Microsoft in the early 2000's. I expect the same fate awaits them as someone…
What have they specifically done that has made your creative work more difficult? I'm a creative using a MacBook Pro and it's just as good for me doing audio work as it was 5 years ago. They've also been doing a good job with Logic Pro, with some big updates of the last couple of years. Even if they removed the headphone input from their laptops (which I don't ever see happening) it's not going to effect creative pro…
What have they specifically done that has made your creative work more difficult?