And most other high end phones followed suit. I can’t understand why people are so attached to cords. They tangle, get caught into stuff and are plain inconvenient.
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.
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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 The port is far from outdated.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.
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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.