You're talking about the company that publicly extolled their own "courage" when they removed the headphone jack from their phones.
That said, the real reason is they decided bluetooth headphones were finally reliable enough
Also to hell with cordless peripherals, my so called keyboards and pointers are all catching dust because there's an inexorable demand for these little toxic disgusting things called batteries, and don't you dare go a year or two without using your computers and thus managing their little chernobyls! technology from Apple and the modern crowd can be trusted alone as much as a newborn and a rattlesnake.
I've literally countless bluetooth audio and non audio devices and I don't have issues with any of them.
Again a very specific anecdotal point.
Reliable enough for what? Uninterrupted playback (barring from drained batteries)? Nope.
My Samsung is supposedly waterproof, but moans if I do much as breathe in the charge hole.
There's stuff like the Ulefone Armor 9 FLIP rugged smartphone which has the headphone jack and has even better ingress protection than the iPhone:
> the extra padding and protection that comes with an IP68/IP69K-rated, MIL-STD-810G certified outdoor smartphone
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/ulefone-armor-9-flir-rugge...
Apple removed the headphone jack for Airbuds and to get extra money. Their accessory division would be a Fortune 500 company, on its own.
You don't get to be a billionaire by giving money away (or not picking it up when users throw it at you).
I’m not saying your argument is invalid but…sure the iPhone could also have a waterproof headphone jack if we wanted port covers on it too. The phone you linked looks nothing like something I want in my pocket all day
I rather doubt most people would really be able to tell the difference.
It can be done, Apple didn't do it because they didn't want to.
I personally choose to not buy any Apple product, but that's not going to bring the demise of Apple.
Did Apple get to be 3 trillion by forcing people to buy stuff or buying selling things that people were willing to give it money for?
But by you choosing to not buy Apple Bluetooth headphones you have a worse experience.
A combination of the two. Sure, they had some legitimately good products to start with. So did Standard Oil.
Nothing makes this read stronger than the fact that Apple still does, in fact, offer a portable device with a headphone jack, the iPod Touch.
You can buy an iDevice that makes calls and texts, or one with a headphone jack. You can not have both in the same machine.
I'm debating switching to non-cabled headphones to fix that and save money on replacement screens
I'm not sure whether I'm more shocked you have multiple reasons/causes for breaking your phone or that you have enough data points available that you can reliably identify a "main reason" amongst those multiple reasons.
Seriously, have you considered taking better care of your possessions?
How the hell do cabled headphones lead to a broken screen? I've owned quite a variety of mobile phones over the last 23 years, have never used a case to protect any of them, have used cabled headphones with a bunch of them, and the only one I've broken is one that I deliberately dropped into a glass of vodka and coke back in the year 2000 because I was smashed off my tits and it seemed like a good idea at the time (it wasn't, even though I'd been planning to replace it anyway - in the interim the lack of a phone was a major PITA for several days).
I love my iPhone but, I really think it's no coincidence the headphone jack removal coincided with the release of airpods, just over a year and a half after the purchase of beats by Dre.
Yep, an S7 went swimming with me for about half on hour one day and after a quick pat down it worked just fine. I wouldn't mind the switch away from jacks so much if most phones & bluetooth earbuds supported higher quality codecs, but it seems relatively rare.
In my case:
- one less battery to charge (on work trips in particular, I have a lot of devices/equipment that need daily charging)
- no worries about bluetooth synching or wireless interference
- less likely to lose
- better sound quality
To each their own.
If my wife wants to listen to the same thing I’m listening to, we can share the audio.
There is a reason I use Bluetooth headphones with Apple chips…
But that begs the question. Has the entire industry not figured out BT headphones aside from Apple?
Lastly, I enjoyed both wired headphones AND my Airpods when I still had my iPhone 6S. The choice between wired or wireless is a false dichotomy.
The $10 adapter apple sells doesn't sound as good as the one they used to build into their phones, and removes inline volume/play/pause controls. Not only that, but now I lose access to my phone's charging port in order to use a wired connection (Charging needed during GPS usage), unless I buy an even more expensive adapter — most of which are unreliable and have universally terrible reviews.
Macs still enjoy the best of both worlds with wired + wireless support — including the upcoming 2022 models — and it's hard to deny the phone (And tablet!) experience hasn't gotten worse without the 3.5mm jack.
https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Lightning-Braided-Compatibl...
Time moves on, should they also have not gotten rid of the 30 pin adapter?
The play and pause control still works on the headphones
>Time moves on, should they also have not gotten rid of the 30 pin adapter?
Apple is still releasing new hardware with a 3.5mm port! The port is far from outdated. Again, both wireless and wired audio coexisted nicely on the iPhone, this is a problem of their own doing, and they've made the experience objectively worse.
We're just going to have to agree to disagree.
They did have 5 generations of phones with 30 pin adapters.
? It is just as good and it supports those controls and the microphone. There's multiple standards for the inline controls on TRRS though.
It also tests better than most audiophile DACs.
Actually having to bring multiple connectors everywhere and swap them out more frequently than cables fail is a negative.
Both can be true at once.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LCXLR--saramonic-lc-...
The headphone has a mini-XLR to 3.5mm connector built in. If it fails it's easy to replace. If the client device supports the standard 3.5mm connector it doesn't have to give a shit that the other end is XLR on IntelMiner's headphone (or in the case of my own headphones, 2.5mm for one set and 3.5mm for the other).
It’s just like these financial gurus telling people who are deep in debt to cut coupons to save $4 a week.
I can't say I've ever had a problem with cords tangling or being inconvenient.
Even with my $59 Beats Flex, I just press a button and turn them on and they automatically pair. When they are taken out my ear and stuck together via the magnets, audio returns to my phone.
Not to mention how they seamlessly switch from my iPhone, iPad and Mac as I change what I’m doing.
Corded peripherals may be inconvenient. In my experience though, they are usually less inconvenient than bluetooth ones. This probably varies by application.
Another major problem is latency. If I want to use headphones to play a keyboard, very little latency is tolerable. Bluetooth doesn't even come close.
>And most other high end phones followed suit. I can’t understand why people are so attached to cords
Not apple specific.
> I can’t understand why people are so attached to cords.
On the assumption that you wanted to understand some reasons people like corded headphones, I provided some real reasons. I use my headphones for things other than my phone. But it would be nice to use them with the phone also.