I am personally disturbed because
1. I have never found a bluetooth headset loude enough for me as a
severely deaf person.
2. I hate with a huge amount options which try to use my hearing aids as
an alternative as the sound is also lousy
3. However I get perfect loud fidelity from a large range of cheap
headsets including my £7.99 JVC Gumy earphones which are perfectly loud
enough for me with my iPhone. They are for example far superior to the
earphones provided with my SE - which are very quiet by comparison.
I hate the fact that Apple wants to deny me the possibility of using my
wired earphones and force me into unnecessarily expensive bluetooth
options or alternatively buy another clumsy adaptor limiting the
funtionality of my device.
I have an iPhone SE for the moment but like others will probably be
forced to switch to Android to maintain choice in this area.
Apple are strangely arrogant in this respect. They obviously regard
perfectly functional technology as old hat - they have never bent on
allowing SD card storage for example. I notice that Samsung bent to
consumer demand and reinstated the SD Card into their phones after
consumer protest. I doubt whether Apple would listen in the same way
somehow.
David Griffiththe
On 28/06/2016 12:19, Saqib Hussain wrote:
Hi. Invested in a Sony Bluetooth Headset and the sound quality is great with
plenty of base. They only cost me around £60. I would never go back to a wired
headset again. I don’t like the idea of Apple implementing a an lightening
connector for their next great invention for their EarPods because you can’t
charge your phone at the same time unless they are going to bring out wireless
charging phones.
On 26 Jun 2016, at 23:55, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Cait,
Better than any of that is uhm, the time before computers!
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On 6/26/2016 3:42 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
Exactly!! things change over time.
does anybody remember 8 track tapes, or even just plain old cassettes?? How
about those huge 5 and a half inch floppy disks? How about when all the memory
you could get was something like 64 megs, and there really wasn’t any portable
storage??
yep, progress is good!
Cait
On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:24 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Some members here may not go back far enough to the days of the many choices
we had for headphones. Wired, wired, wired, wired, and wired. (smiles)
I really do not get this concern over a possible change in hardware that no
one has laid eyes on. But if it is true, its as good as carved in stone (the 7
is likely off the drawing board by now). And should I need (not want) a new
phone, why, I have faith in Apple in its ability to provide what may be needed
to satisfy connectivity concerns.
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On 6/26/2016 3:09 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
All this makes me very glad I'm an android user. Whether the demize of
the 3.5 mm jack turns out to be a good thing long term or not, I myself
am not ready to take that step. I can't even really go for bluetooth
headphones which I'd really like to do because I need wired headphones
for so many things besides my phone. The bank machine for example. I
have to have bt headphones that give me the option of plugging in when I
want to and those headsets are so bulky and so expensive that they
really aren't useful as wireless headphones.
So, I just bought a $100 android phone that does everything I would want
to do with an Iphhone, doesn't have nearly as good a screen, but has
much better battery life and sound system, figures to last me for two
years or more, and let's me keep the audio jack.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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<mailto:mk...@ucla.edu>> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Here is an interesting article that I thought you'd like to read, the
URL to
which is located at the end of the text.
NOTE: I edited out the 1 profane word that appears in the original
text so
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Enjoy,
Mark
Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid, Have some
dignity
By Nilay Patel on June 21, 2016
Another day, another rumor that Apple is going to ditch the headphone jack
on the next iPhone in favor of sending out audio over Lightning. Or
another
phone beats Apple to the punch by ditching the headphone jack in favor of
passing out audio over USB-C. What exciting times for phones! We're so out
of ideas that actively making them shittier and more user-hostile is the
only innovation left.
ditching the headphone jack on phones makes them worse
Look, I know you're going to tell me that the traditional TRS
headphone jack
is a billion years old and prone to failure and that life is about
progress
and whatever else you need to repeat deliriously into your bed of old HTC
extUSB dongles and insane magnetic Palm adapters to sleep at night.
But just
face facts: ditching the headphone jack on phones makes them worse, in
extremely obvious ways. Let's count them!
(Also, here is a list of reasons you might actually prefer Lightning
headphones, by my friend Vlad Savov, but let's be clear that my list
is the
superior one.)
1. Digital audio means DRM audio
Oh look, I won this argument in one shot. For years the entertainment
industry has decried what they call the "analog loophole" of headphone
jacks, and now we're making their dreams come true by closing it.
Winter is coming
Restricting audio output to a purely digital connection means that music
publishers and streaming companies can start to insist on digital
copyright
enforcement mechanisms. We moved our video systems to HDMI and got HDCP,
remember? Copyright enforcement technology never stops piracy and always
hurts the people who most rely on legal fair use, but you can bet the
music
industry is going to start cracking down on "unauthorized" playback and
recording devices anyway. We deal with DRM when it comes to video
because we
generally don't rewatch and take TV shows and movies with us, but you will
rue the day Apple decided to make the iPhone another 1mm thinner the
instant
you get a "playback device not supported" message. Winter is coming.
2. Wireless headphones and speakers are fine, not great
I am surrounded by wireless speaker systems. (I work at The Verge, after
all.) And while they mostly work fine, sometimes they crackle out and
fail.
It sucks to share a wireless speaker among multiple devices. Bluetooth
headphones require me to charge yet another battery. You haven't known
pain
until you've chosen to use Bluetooth audio in a car instead of an aux
jack.
Bluetooth: next year it'll work great.
3. Dongles are stupid, especially when they require other dongles
Shut up, you say. All of your complaints will be handled by this charming
$29 dongle that converts digital audio to a standard headphone jack!
Have some dignity
To which I will respond: here is a photo of Dieter Bohn and his beloved
single-port MacBook, living his fullest #donglelife during our WWDC
liveblog:
Photo of macbook with a bunch of dongles
Everything is going to be great when you want to use your expensive
headphones and charge your phone at the same time. You are going to love
everything about that situation. You are going to hold your 1mm thinner
phone and sincerely believe that the small reduction in thickness is
definitely worth carrying multiple additional dongles.
Also, they're called [redacted] dongles. Let's not do this to ourselves.
Have some dignity.
4. Ditching a deeply established standard will disproportionately impact
accessibility
The traditional headphone jack is a standard for a reason - it works. It
works so well that an entire ecosystem of other kinds of devices has built
up around it, and millions of people have access to compatible devices at
every conceivable price point. The headphone jack might be less good
on some
metrics than Lightning or USB-C audio, but it is spectacularly better than
anything else in the world at being accessible, enabling, open, and
democratizing. A change that will cost every iPhone user at least $29
extra
for a dongle (or more for new headphones) is not a change designed to
benefit everyone. And you don't need to get rid of the headphone jack to
make a phone waterproof; plenty of waterproof phones have shipped with
headphone jacks already.
5. Making Android and iPhone headphones incompatible is so incredibly
arrogant and stupid there's not even explanatory text under this one
6. No one is asking for this
Raise your hand if the thing you wanted most from your next phone was
either
fewer ports or more dongles.
I didn't think so. You wanted better battery life, didn't you?
Everyone just
wants better battery life.
Original article at:
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/6/21/11991302/iphone-no-headphon
e-jack-user-hostile-stupid
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