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Re: iPhone 7

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Post by an_account »

mikeash wrote: post #322
eli wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the time it really did feel like they were jumping the gun with floppies and optical drives too.

Maybe, but it wasn't at all to the same degree. Floppies were verging on uselessness in 1998. Capacities hadn't increased in a decade, while code and data sizes were growing exponentially. Floppies could barely fit anything useful anymore. A wide variety of replacements were available, with Zip, Jazz, Bernoulli, CD-RW, and others all competing. There was no standardization, so the replacements kind of sucked. Removab…

Wireless headphones that just work are seriously really nice. Once you use them, you wonder why all headphones aren't wireless.

Removing the headphone jack forces people to solve the wireless headphone problems: pairing, latency, and charging.

I'm not convinced apple isn't timing this well, but I see what they're getting at and I think it may be more like these past example than people are saying.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by cstejerean »

randomsearch wrote: post #749

I have two thoughts on the headphone jack: 1. Most of the use cases being discussed here are irrelevant for the average iPhone user. Charging and listening at the same time is not a thing for most users. I know there are perfectly reasonable scenarios where it is useful, but most people don't care. Regarding battery life: personally, I use my iPhone quite a lot, often with bluetooth headphones, and I have had to char…

All the cool kids already have Bluetooth headphones, and the ones that don't soon will. There is nothing cool about having a wire dangling around. I don't think they misread the market at all. It is time to move to Bluetooth.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by flukus »

r00fus wrote: post #899
harryh wrote: post #532

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Totally agree. I've purchased a new phone in even numbered years going back quite a while but I'll be passing this year especially with a bigger redesign rumored to be coming next year for the 10th anniversary.

If you're on an upgrade plan, it makes no sense to wait - just upgrade each year.

> it makes no sense to wait

Well they did remove a certain feature... If you use that often then it makes perfect sense to wait.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by fjarlq »

ino wrote: post #796
koolba wrote: post #356

OT / @dang: This thread really makes one appreciate the new collapsible comments!

collapsing is really slow, it takes 3-5 seconds on safari + mba.

Noticeably slow on my OSX Chrome (mid-2014 MBP) as well. Is there an issue tracker where we can submit CPU profiles and whatnot?

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by gchokov »

devrelm wrote: post #384
Ologn wrote: post #221

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> already well implemented in Android Yup. I remember the original iPhone/iPad announcements where many features were fairly innovative. Now applauded feature announcements are for features already out on Android phones.

Right? > New stereo speaker system Oh cool, you mean like the forward-facing stereo speakers on my 2-year-old Nexus 6?

Nobody cares about your Nexus 6.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by nomercy400 »

nfriedly wrote: post #262
tebruno99 wrote: post #183

I'm not even upset about the headphone jack. Whatever. I'm really upset because you won't be able to do the following: 1.) Audio+GPS+Charging in non-Bluetooth Car. 2.) Listening to music at desk and still have enough charge for the Audio+GPS for the drive home. 3.) No more listening to music/audiobooks as I fall asleep because in the morning the iPhone won't be charged for my desk usage the next day unless I wake up…

I'm sure someone will make a slitter to enable analog audio + charging. There will probably be an "official" one for $60 and Chinese knockoffs for $5.

I wonder how they will do that. Charging gives noise. Analog audio is very susceptible to noise.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by gchokov »

metafunctor wrote: post #727

The keynote was trying to boast the gaming capabilities with a demo of… 400 monkeys. Weak. Give me 400 monkeys, then 4000 monkeys, then 400 000 monkeys, and now the monkeys are forming a fractal, but the fractal is just the surface of a sphere, and zooming out there are a million spheres, and the spheres form… a monkey. Now THAT's a demo.

haha very cool :) Gaming push was very lame indeed. All these pokemons, monkeys and even F1.. who cares.

Re: iPhone 7

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Post by greendesk »

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 personally have the opposite opinion - I did not like the headphone jack and I am considering iPhone 7 because it does not have it.

I was never sure if the jack is all the way in or it is halfway in. Sometimes the audio would disappear, and I would find out the headphones have slowly came off; but not all the way out, just enough to distort the sound.

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