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Re:iPhone 7 by jjawssd on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:22PM (#12446395)
That would make sense if wired wasn't far superior to wireless from a reliability and throughput standpoint
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Re:iPhone 7 by ceejayoz on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:40PM (#12446704)
The iPhone's Bluetooth 4 is capable of 24 Mbps. If that's not enough throughput for your music listening, I'm not sure what to tell you.
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Re:iPhone 7 by falcolas on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:45PM (#12447499)
I work in an office with a lot of 2.4 GHZ wifi going on - bluetooth anything (including keyboard and mouse) doesn't work worth a damned in that environment.

Wireless is a poor substitute for wired in most real-world usecases. Wireless gives you: unpredictable performance, latency, contention for available frequencies, and having to deal with batteries.

I think it's OK for wifi, only because most of the time the bandwidth of wifi is greater than the bandwidth of your ISP. But I think that's a problem with the state of ISPs, not a blessing of wifi.

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Re:iPhone 7 by heartbreak on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:44PM (#12446745)
Were you given early access to Apple's "wireless" AirBuds?
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Re:iPhone 7 by ForFreedom on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:51AM (#12450580)
Yes, apparently he saw the keynote before anyone
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Re:iPhone 7 by jjawssd on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:23PM (#12470324)
Explain plz
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