Re:The void left by Apple
by gumby on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:24PM
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> Removing the iPhone headphone jack was dumb and pointless.
I suspect there was a point. This is part of Apple's standard MO.
It's a way to wean people onto wireless (BT). Apple's expensive BT headphones point the way to cheap third party BT headphones that aren't painful to connect (right now bluetooth infrastructure is pretty sucky).
Once people are comfortable without the headphone wires they will have inductive charging like the watch and have a water resistant device like the new watch.
I suspect there was a point. This is part of Apple's standard MO.
It's a way to wean people onto wireless (BT). Apple's expensive BT headphones point the way to cheap third party BT headphones that aren't painful to connect (right now bluetooth infrastructure is pretty sucky).
Once people are comfortable without the headphone wires they will have inductive charging like the watch and have a water resistant device like the new watch.