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| ogden:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 08, 2021, 11:55:36 pm ---I hope the EU eventually investigates the "coincidence" that all the manufacturers drop replaceable batteries, ports, and SD cards from flagship models all at the same time. --- End quote --- Right. Add to your list disappeared features and peripherals all over the place. Why there is no built-in CD-RW drives anymore in the laptops, casette players in the cars? Big tech is robbing consumers! :-DD |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: ogden on December 08, 2021, 08:39:46 pm ---Phones with audio jacks are still manufactured. Just get one. Stating things like "I like mechanical buttons" so every phone on the market shall have such, sounds laughable to say it politely. --- End quote --- I have one, but what iPhone can I get to replace it if I ever need to do that? The only alternative is Android and it doesn't support iMessage so it doesn't meet my needs. I don't expect every phone to have mechanical buttons, but I won't buy one that doesn't have a physical home button unless there is absolutely no other option, and in that case I'll keep my existing phone for as long as possible. I don't expect EVERY phone to have anything, but it would certainly be nice if virtually EVERY phone didn't copy the same stupid design decisions Apple makes. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: cortex_m0 on December 09, 2021, 03:11:22 am ---At the time the iPhone eliminated the headphone jack, more than two-thirds of respondents to a web survey said they thought Apple removing the headphone jack was a mistake. I think it is clear now that their move was not a loser in the market place. So it's not a coincidence. The 3.5mm jack-free iPhone has been a success, since it was launched 6 years ago so everyone else followed. The iPhone has never had a user-serviceable battery or an SD card. --- End quote --- That's a false comparison, how can you say it was a success when they removed it from all of their flagship models and people still kept buying the phones? If you're invested in the iOS ecosystem you can buy any phone you want, as long as it's an iPhone. The fact that a feature is removed and people keep on buying them doesn't mean it was a good decision or that the phone would be any less successful without the headphone jack, it just means there is so little competition and most of the competition copies whatever Apple does anyway that the only real option is to bend over and take it. Seriously, how can it be argued that removing a feature that is useful to a significant number of people an improvement? If you don't need it you don't have to use it, but if it isn't there you can't use it whether you want to or not. The battery is user serviceable, I've replaced several iPhone batteries, it was easy. The lack of SD card support is something that has always annoyed me, but what choice do I have? I could get an Android phone and that would bring a different set of problems. There is no really good mobile phone platform on the market, it is not a matter of choosing the one I like best, I had to choose the one I hate least, and I have every right to complain about it, and I find corporate apologists and fanbois with their smug and dismissive attitudes to be some of the most irritating people on the planet. |
| tooki:
One feature, one I consider genuinely useful, that digitally connected headphones (be it Bluetooth, Lightning, or USB-C), in a tightly controlled ecosystem like apple’s, is headphone volume safety. When using digitally-connected Apple-made headphones, iOS can carefully monitor the actual headphone output, optionally limiting to an actual volume output, and not just a “dumb” maximum setting that’s unaware of the sensitive of the headphones in use. With compatible headphones, you can view real-time output (see attached screenshot from my iPhone). You can optionally configure it to limit to a particular dB level, and again it’s based on actual content volume. So if you need to turn the volume way up for a quiet recording, you still can, and if you forget to turn it back down for a “hot” recording, it will protect your ears. (Way better than the old EU volume limit, which has no way of knowing what headphones were in use, and so by law the limit was based on the included headphones, often leaving you with insufficient volume with headphones.) What I don’t know is whether Apple has a mechanism to allow third-party Made for iPhone headphones with digital connections to work with this system. If they don’t, I hope they enable it eventually. |
| Miyuki:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 08, 2021, 04:38:24 pm ---FWIW, I know that some Android phones do that, but on Apple devices the ports are purely digital, and the headphone adapters contain full DACs and ADCs. (Lightning doesn’t even have the option of analog audio out. It’s a strictly all-digital interface. Video output on Lightning is actually implemented as an h.264 stream, decoded in the HDMI “adapter” which actually contains an entire ARM SoC running a super-lightweight version of iOS just to decode the h.264 stream and run the HDMI port!) --- End quote --- I was not aware of that. Yet they are still available almost for no cost, so why not. I use USB headphones even for a computer. They can regulate volume and mute/pause. Have mic. They have only benefits for me as I do not have any analog audio setup and if I will have one, it will have dedicated headphones anyway. And USB one I can connect to hub conveniently placed on the table. |
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