I think part of what makes some people resistant to the idea isn’t so much the DRM issue but that they already have a favorite model of headphones whose manufacturer may not be interested in adopting the Lighting standard anytime soon. I’m a Grados fan myself and given their conservative approach to headphone construction, I’m not sure they’ll ever adopt this standard.
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I love my Grado SR-60s and I’m really not worried about using them with future iPhone models, as long as Apple provides the 3.5 adaptors that’d make the Lightning port backwards compatible.
Nilay is a bafoon. He laments the restrictions of moving from analog to digital, but cries like a baby when things like ad blockers affect his bosses bottom line.
More people than ever in the history of ever listen to recorded music, yet artists and laws make less than ever. There is something majorly wrong here.
So when a bafoon like Nilay cries about something that affects his pocketbook it’s gloom and doom. But when a technology allows for a better experience to the consumer he is a little bitch.
The average consumer could give a rats ass about the elimination of the 3.5 jack. They break and we buy a new one. Big deal.
This is just indicative of the moronic echo-chamber of a young nepotism among these tech bloggers . People who have no business being in the medium in the first place.
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Apple released these “new” guidelines for digital audio over Lightning two years ago, so if that’s what NPR is using to connect the dots, they sure took their time to do so.
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Sorry, I didn’t realize you were citing a two year-old article that lead with “Apple may be set to end its use of the standard 3.5mm headphone connector”.
###First: Sorry is a condition, not an excuse.
Second: The NPR article I linked featured this little ditty about where the author received their information. I’ll quote it here since you don’t seem interested in reading linked articles.
To make sense of the issue, All Things Considered contacted a couple of writers in the field. Host Audie Cornish spoke with Gordon Kelly, a contributor to Forbes, about the technological and business implications of Apple's switch...Cornish also recently sat down with 9to5Mac writer Jordan Kahn to discuss…
But yeah, I’m sure NPR pulled that article out of their collective asses.
Third: I quoted a number of articles speaking to the likelihood of Apple’s getting rid of the headphone jack. Do you have evidence to the contrary, or would you prefer to continue objecting to my information sources?
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I’d say that it’s very likely that Apple will remove the headphone jack from the iPhone at some point. It’s been a rumor for the past two product refreshes (ever since those MFi Lightning audio specs were released) and now it’s a rumor for the next refresh. If not this time, it’ll be an even stronger rumor next year.
The two year-old NPR article was all “may, might, rumor, business-repercussions-if” speaking to people speaking on rumor birthed from those Lightning audio specs. So… solid proof the iPhone 7 will remove the headphone jack I guess?
Well that’s helpful.
So you’re feeling safe about the jack being removed “at some point”, but you’re not okay with hearing from people who work in that business, who have ties to people and corporations that make the products under consideration to such a degree that large news organizations ask for their opinion on these things…
Nah. Never mind. You’re right. I’ll be sure to post news articles that feature only the objective truth from now on.
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But wait! I’m in the tech industry and have been closely following Apple for 30 years… must I be an Apple blogger to speculate on rumors? Give me a minute and I’ll post on Medium instead for maximum legitimacy.
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When I first got a cell phone, it was a Nokia with a proprietary charge/data cable. Now I have a cell phone that has a standard USB port for such things (some wrinkles in which cables support which activities, but it is better.). Did voting with our wallets get us that change? Not a rhetorical question. I really don’t know.
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That’s an assumption, not a guarantee.
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Hrm
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See the comparisons I posted above. Early tests of Lightning headphones show better sound quality than 3.5 jacks.
Motorola has already removed the headphone jack from the Moto Z. And over the last 18 years, the rest of the tech world tends to follow Apple’s lead, for better or for worse.
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