Point taken and well made. For what it's worth, I rather doubt it will actually heppen that the headphone jack will go. !
Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! > On Jan 18, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Ray, > > You! are also failing to see something though. You're point is valid and > well taken, don't get me wrong here, but what about those who don't have > headphones with a lightning connecter. Or what about those like myself who > use both Apple, and! Android products? Are we gonna be left in the cold > having to buy two different pares of headphones, and lug both them around > with us? Surely that seems absurd. > > Before you say, there are adapters probably being made, take it from a guy > who's a certified engineer. If you take an 8th inch plug, and pop a > lightning adapter on it, the bottom line is the signal is traveling down the > line from the lightning, to the 3.5M plug, down the headphone cord, and to > your earpieces. The point being, that signal might have started as digital, > giving you the new to come high resolution, but ultimately by the time it > hits your ears, it will have been carried down the line to your stereo 3.5M > jack in the adapter, and at that point, your headphones won't know what to do > with that signal. It would most likely be converted to an annalog signal. > Therefore, the only way you'd truly get that benefit is no adapter. Plug > directly in, which means new headphones for us, which means more marketting > by Apple, and more money for Apple. > > I'm just sayin'. > > Chris. > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Ray Foret Jr <mailto:rforet7...@comcast.net> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 6:17 AM >> Subject: Re: Apple's headphone scam >> >> I would advise having nothing to do with this. You are overlooking an >> obvious benefit; and it's not just more money for Apple: rather it's this. >> The plain fact is that it's better to lose the headphone jack because you >> can get much better audio out of the lightning connecter than you can out of >> the 3.5MM jack. With the use of the lightning connecter, you can take >> advantage of the high resolution audio format which Apple is said to be >> roling out soon. Also, there are other advantages besides. 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