Jack removal makes sense, if going for a dust and waterproof soap bar.
My Samsung is supposedly waterproof, but moans if I do much as breathe in the charge hole.
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).
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 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
It can be done, Apple didn't do it because they didn't want to.
I rather doubt most people would really be able to tell the difference.
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 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.
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.