Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ...
by gambiting on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:46AM
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I feel like it's very prophetic that we already had 2.5mm jacks on phones and everyone I spoke to(me included) hated them because you had to use an adapter for your normal headphones. It doesn't matter if your phone has a 2.5mm jack, usb-c, lightning or any other connector - as long as it's not the most common standard on the market it's going to be disliked.
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Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ...
by trowawee on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @10:03AM
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> as long as it's not the most common standard on the market it's going to be disliked.
Eh. Apple's done this before, as Gruber points out, and they basically won. Nobody at this point (at least, that I hear) complains about Lightning cables. Ditching the 3.5mm jack might be a bad idea, but Apple does have a track record of doing this, which is probably why they think they can get away with it now.
Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:24AM
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> Nobody at this point (at least, that I hear) complains about Lightning cables.
Lightning was a proprietary Apple connector that replaced the older proprietary 30-pin Apple connector. Not at all comparable to removing the 3.5mm jack.