Yes me too! Don't take away the headphone jack! Here in Mexico, where
Apple-specific adapters and the like are expensive, and sometimes hard
to come by since there's no Apple Store as of yet, there's nothing
better to grab any earphones and away connect them to my phone!
El 01/12/2015 10:59 a.m., 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone escribió:
Hi Jonathan,
I agree totally with what you're saying and will certainly be watching
this space with interest. If anyone hears anything else which they
consider to be credible, One way or the other, I am sure we will all
want to know. Obviously, if they are going to take it away then we
want the opportunity to shout loud and long! :) Carol P
Sent from my iPhone using MBraille
On 1 Dec 2015, at 4:10 p.m., Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org
<mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote:
Hi Mary, yes, when it comes to mobile phones at least, I must confess
to feeling increasingly trapped.
There are excellent alternative tablets and computers, but it's the
phone that it's tricky to find an alternative for.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org>
On 2/12/2015, at 5:02 AM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com
<mailto:motte...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
I saw the same article you did in mac rumors. I admit that I have not
been trolling the Apple forums or the MacRumors comment sections, so
I do not know what the public reaction to that story has been. But,
while I am not hearing impaired, I absolutely join you in your
condemnation of this possibility. We don't need thinner iPhones. We
just don't. And 1 mm? Who is going to notice one stinking millimeter?
For that, Apple will make me buy some stupid little connector to use
my headphones with? And they will probably charge $30 for it even
though the parts cost them five. And then when I lose said connector,
which is almost inevitable, I will get to buy another one. This just
looks like a cheap crappy trick for Apple to make more money off of
people who are willing to keep paying top dollar for increasingly
shoddy products. If they did this, and android weren't such a mess in
some fairly fundamental ways for blind screen reader users, I would
really consider switching to android. But, web browsing and
continuous reading and some other things are still so bad on that
platform that such a switch is untenable if you want to use your
device efficiently. My opinion only of course.
Mary
Mary
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On Dec 1, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org
<mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote:
Hi everyone, I waited a few days to see if this issue might be
raised by someone else. But I'll raise it here myself, because I'm
not sure whether Apple may be flying a kite here and seeing what
reaction this idea gets.
There's an unconfirmed rumour from a source that has in the past
been credible, that the next generation iPhone will not include a
headphone jack, so Apple can make the phone thinner.
I'm pasting a blog post that I wrote and published on this subject
72 hours ago. Here goes.
I like thin, lightweight technology, but it isn’t the only criterion
that determines what I use. If thin and light doesn’t give me the
performance I need, I’m happy to choose something heavier or bigger.
When the iPhone 6 Plus came out, I bought one. Initially, it seemed
absolutely enormous, and I thought I’d never get used to it. Now I’m
on the 6s Plus and would never go back to a smaller iPhone. The
battery life and the bigger screen for Braille screen input make it
the right choice for me.
After being a MacBook Air user for three years, I recently bought a
15-inch MacBook Pro with all the specs maxed out. It includes 16GB
of RAM and 1TB solid state storage.
Compared to my MacBook Air, the Pro feels heavy and thick, and I’ve
therefore given it the nickname “The Big Kahuna”. But it fits in my
backpack just fine when I travel, it isn’t really that arduous to
take places, and the thing is, it goes like a rocket. I enjoy having
OS X for a few apps and functions, but Windows is still my primary
operating system. With a laptop this fast and powerful, I can run
JAWS in a virtual machine with superb results, and still tend to
iMessages and FaceTime calls.
Sometimes I pick up my old MacBook Air and think, “oy, what have I
done? This thing is so cute!” But the performance factor soon
reminds me that I made the right decision for my particular needs.
There’s plenty of choice of form factor in the MacBook line now. If
you want to go ultra-portable, there’s the new 12-inch retina
MacBook, which is just adorably thin and light, with compromises to
match. It sports a single USB type C port, which is the only way
both to connect peripherals to it and charge it. And the keyboard
is, to put it charitably, an acquired taste.
So when it comes to Mac, Apple now has a line-up that can meet the
needs of the road warrior who wants something really light for a bit
of word processing, email and web surfing, all the way to someone
who needs plenty of grunt and is willing to lug it around.
There is not so much flexibility in the iPhone stable, where there
are usually now two current models with similar specs but different
screen sizes. So when I read a rumour that Apple may dispense with
the 3.5mm headphone jack in iPhone 7 models, it had me concerned.
Before I explain why, let me be clear that Apple itself has made no
official statement about the future of the headphone jack. It’s only
a rumour. But I read a lot of technology sources, and have come to
know which sources tend to be more reliable. The source of this
story, the Japanese technology site Mac Otakara, has a good track
record. No news site that reports things like this gets it right
100% of the time though. It’s also possible that Apple wants to
monitor customer reaction to the idea, by letting it leak. But
there’s no doubt that decisions as fundamental as this are being
taken now, or probably have already been taken.
You can read an English summary of the story at Mac Rumours
<http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/27/iphone-7-no-3-5mm-headphone-jack-lightning/>.
Even if the story is wrong, and I hope it is, I want to write a
defence of the headphone jack for those who think its loss wouldn’t
be a big deal. Some of us really, genuinely need it.
The story suggests that the 3.5mm headphone jack will be dispensed
with, because it’s preventing Apple from making the iPhone thinner.
If they removed the jack, they could shave more than 1mm off the
thickness of the phone.
If this rumour is correct, Apple would probably include Earpods with
a Lightning connector, since specs for headphones that use the
Lightning port have been available since 2014.
According to the story, the Lightning port would include a digital
to analogue converter, so you’d still be able to connect 3.5mm
headphones. There is no word in the story that this Lightning port
would be in addition to the one already on iPhones, implying that
you’ll have one port for both charging your device and listening to
wired headphones or connecting the device to a mixer.
My first objection to this rumour is a philosophical one. 3.5mm
headphone jacks are ubiquitous. The standard is supported by a
massive number of manufacturers. It would be sad if Apple required
its users to carry a proprietary adapter, probably sold separately,
to connect standard equipment to their single proprietary port. But
they’ve done this before. Even on my maxed out MacBook Pro, I have
to buy a special adapter just to connect to wired Ethernet.
My remaining concerns relate to functionality. As a hearing-aid
wearer, I use my iPhone with a cable between the headphone jack and
my hearing aids about 95% of the time. There’s no latency because
it’s analogue all the way, and since no Bluetooth is involved, it’s
energy efficient in terms of hearing aid battery usage. The
Lightning to analogue adapter would be one additional device to
carry, use and potentially lose, and it would mean that I couldn’t
use my iPhone in the way that is optimal for me while I’m charging
it. There’s also the possibility that the digital to analogue
converter may introduce latency. That wouldn’t be important for most
tasks, but it would be detrimental to all VoiceOver users who use
3.5mm devices, not just hearing aid wearers.
But there’s always Bluetooth, and that’s the way the world is going,
right? There may be a few exceptions, but the majority of Bluetooth
audio I’ve used on iOS is laggy with VoiceOver, Apple’s built-in
screen reader for blind people like me, that I find it a
frustrating, sub-optimal experience. Streamers for hearing aid
wearers often power down very quickly after VoiceOver has stopped
speaking, to save energy. This means that hearing aid wearers who
use VoiceOver with Bluetooth streamers often must cope with missing
the first second or two of what VoiceOver is saying, as the
Bluetooth streamer powers up after detecting audio. If you’re taking
a phone call or listening to music, that’s no big deal, but for a
VoiceOver user, it’s not a good experience. And Bluetooth streamers
chew through hearing aid batteries faster than an analogue
connection, imposing additional costs on hearing aid wearers.
Taking hearing impairment out of the mix, there are many people who
use the 3.5mm jack, and want to do so while charging their device.
Bonnie, for example, has a pillow speaker, because she likes the
radio on at night. It plugs into her iPhone while it’s charging.
We may be about to see a similar controversy with iPhone to the one
that greeted the new MacBook’s single USB C port and all the
inconveniences that go with that. When that controversy was at its
peak, proponents said that Apple often likes to move the tech agenda
forward, and that they’re uniquely positioned to do that by making
“bold” decisions like this. Sorry, I don’t consider a single port
for peripherals and charging a bold decision. It’s just a pain. If
you want to use multiple devices, you have to buy some sort of hub,
which detracts from the convenience of having an all-in-one device.
I realise that as a VoiceOver user with a hearing impairment
passionate about getting the most optimal audio experience, I’m a
minority within a minority. But if this rumour proves to be true, it
will be my queue to seriously examine other mobile options. I really
don’t want a phone one more millimetre thinner, when it’s going to
create an experience for me that would be poorer.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/>
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