People were using the 3.5mm socket long before Apple. They will continue to use it after Apple. Many of us have never owned anything made by Apple, and find it difficult to understand why so many other people seem so keen to spend lots of money in locking themselves in to one commercial system.
So.....
Who's going to patent a 3.5mm to lightning adapter ???
Loads of money to be made !!!
Andy
Who's going to patent a 3.5mm to lightning adapter ???
Loads of money to be made !!!
Andy
DF96- maybe because they make some pretty cool toys - oops - products that we never knew we needed until we saw them, as well as having developed a great business model for extracting money from your wallet by both regular installments and on the occasional upgrade 😀
Disclosure - within my family (two married couples and a bachelor son), we have of over 20 individual Apple devices, and I've had far fewer complaints / technical issues with the total of 10 that have accumulated in my own home over the past half dozen or so years than the succession of 2 or 3 MS/PCs and D-link router prior.
Oh, and for the non computer geek who wants something that just sorta works well and plays nice with other devices in the home system, the cost is probably well worth it.
My wife had a MBPro for several years, but has taken to her iPAD like a duck to water, and no longer uses the laptop on a daily basis.
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PS, and as for folks wanting to listen to "buds" on their iPhones, don't they still come with standard Earpods, and would likely do so if the rumors abounding over features on the 7 come to fruition?
Disclosure - within my family (two married couples and a bachelor son), we have of over 20 individual Apple devices, and I've had far fewer complaints / technical issues with the total of 10 that have accumulated in my own home over the past half dozen or so years than the succession of 2 or 3 MS/PCs and D-link router prior.
Oh, and for the non computer geek who wants something that just sorta works well and plays nice with other devices in the home system, the cost is probably well worth it.
My wife had a MBPro for several years, but has taken to her iPAD like a duck to water, and no longer uses the laptop on a daily basis.
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PS, and as for folks wanting to listen to "buds" on their iPhones, don't they still come with standard Earpods, and would likely do so if the rumors abounding over features on the 7 come to fruition?
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If you look at the bottom of the iPhone, it's pretty clear that the audio plug is diameter isn't going to work for an even slimmer phone.
There'll be an adapter. Apple will offer one. It'll cost $30 and be all pretty white and come in a nicely designed package. Then the 3rd party vendors will pop up and offer an adapter for $0.99 shipped from China. It'll come in a ziplock bag that shreds when you try to open it and the QC sticker will be impossible to remove.
In other words, I wouldn't panic just yet.
Tom
In other words, I wouldn't panic just yet.
Tom
My nephew is into the latest gadgets.
He paid about £650 for his phone.
I paid £35 for mine ! it does what I want and the battery lasts over a week.
He paid about £650 for his phone.
I paid £35 for mine ! it does what I want and the battery lasts over a week.
Did Lightning make micro USB go away???? I don't think so.
Note, I have exactly ONE Apple device, an iPAD Air I got at SAMS club when the newer iPAD Air 2 came out rendering the older model useless to the faithful followers. I got the iPAD because it is the only real choice for serious music making. It works good for those apps.
Google has never addressed the loose timing in Android, so the few music creation apps on Android have timing issues, but the errors have become reasonable given a fast enough processor. Windows based phones and tablets, aren't even a choice yet.
Note, IOS was on version 7 when I bought the iPAD. It was immediately upgraded to 8 when I turned it on. 8 had issues, so 8.1 came out rather quickly.....sound familiar? I think it has 9. something now. Windows had to skip 9, because there are a few legacy programs that would see the "9" as W95 or W98.
They just want something well designed in their messy lives (Apple's success). This may sound harsh, truth always is.
before this turns into a love to hate contest, let's remind ourselves that not all of the Apple rumors reach fruition - such as Apple and Tesla working on a new model of electric car that will include wireless charging, and a "find my friends auto driving app"
see - you read it on the internets, so it must be true
see - you read it on the internets, so it must be true
Sony killed the 1/4" jack with the walkman, so Apple could do the same for the 1/8". Of course both will live on, just won't be nearly as common.
Hi,
The 1/4" jack is alive and well and used as much as ever in music equipment.
Its just no longer the standard choice for headphone outputs on most stuff.
Its been going for over a century. The demise of the 1/8" is a long way off.
rgds, sreten.
The 1/4" jack is alive and well and used as much as ever in music equipment.
Its just no longer the standard choice for headphone outputs on most stuff.
Its been going for over a century. The demise of the 1/8" is a long way off.
rgds, sreten.
I don't think you can say Sony killed that, Apple killed this. It's just life; things get smaller, more compact and then disappear (just like us).
yes, I - or at least certain parts - have definitely been getting smaller in the past couple of decades, while still retaining a semblance of functionality
the TRRS plug can also be used for digital plus power. soon a dynamic pin functon allocation a la lightning will be done for TRRS. usb on the go, phone + mic, etc.
whoever designed it, the Lightning connector makes a lot of sense, and I find it a lot easier to use on my phone and iPad than the previous multi-pin
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