Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
by endemic on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:52AM
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> Remove it in the prior version to get all of that discussion over and done with. When the next iPhone comes out, there'll no longer be outrage about it missing a headphone jack.
Seems reasonable, but if the next iPhone is the massive redesign everyone is expecting, wouldn't have been easier to remove the jack and play it off as a requirement of the new design? "This is the iPhone of the future," etc.
Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
by sbarre on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:09AM
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Those were going to be controversial design changes no matter what so, like others have rightly pointed out, do them incrementally to allow all the discussion and annoyance/outrage to pass and not dominate the conversation in the media (both social and professional).
Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
by Accacin on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:50AM
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I didn't think there was a 7S?
Re:Bringing back the iPhone headphone jack, in China
by madeofpalk on Thursday September 07, 2017 @05:38PM
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Apologies, I meant the 7.
I own the 7S without the headphone jack and while most of the time I'm fine without it, there are a few instances (mostly on planes or long car) where it really pisses me off. But switching to an alternative device that has a headphone jack would piss me off even more due to other things.
I look at it the same way about the removal of the physical home button from the iPhone 7S - 'train' users/press prior about the potential negatives so you can control more of the conversation when the 'next big phone' comes out that you want make sure makes a good, big impact.