Besides, for all of Apples space/thin-saving attempts, requiring me to use an adapter negates all of these completely.
Yeah, your smartphone has only replaced a camera, a portable movie player, a portable music player, a PDA, a phone, a GPS receiver and/or maps, a watch, a gameboy, and 5-6 other devices we had to carry (or couldn't afford to even have) before.
Now it's adding a dongle for headphones we have to remember to carry? Oh, the humanity!
(Plus the fact that there are also lightning equiped headphones).
It's like 3 dongles if you want to be able to charge and listen at the same time. Like, for example, on a long-distance flight. And it's a completely self-imposed limitation on Apple's part!
Not willing to go wireless as I use both for music making and wireless latency and compression is unacceptable. On phones I kind of understand it but IMO the iPad Pro not having a headphone socket is not excusable, there must be a way to fit it in.
I can’t charge and listen to music. Phone low on battery? Hey guess what! Don’t you wish you has just bought our expensive blue tooth speakers?
NO. If I want actual sound I’ll get it from people who love for sound.
Not good for people who enjoy the higher audio quality or just don't want to mess about with charging yet more batteries
Since when proposing a sold separately wirelesses alternative is "forcing you to go wireless"?
It is very noticeable in games and movies. Until they solve that problem first, wired solutions will always be needed.
That's a problem with bluetooth protocol in general.
https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tests/active-features/late...
And hopefully someday the cost and prices of AirPod will be much lower or even included with iPhone.
I used to carry a couple of iPod Nano's paired with Shure SE215 to the gym until a few months ago. Despite my intial hesitation against wireless earphones and self-imposed rule of never taking a phone to the gym, Jabra Elite Sport + an iPhone 7 has replaced that setup for now. The sound on the Jabra is far superior, the heart-rate monitor is fairly accurate and there is also basic Strava integration, but more importantly - I am cable-free!
On the other hand, I continue to use ATH-M50x with the iPad Pro 10.5 (which has the 3.5mm jack) due to the comfort and no lag with video content.
It is not about relinquishing or discarding your trusty old gear, but making it work with new tech, wherever and whenever you can, regardless of the ecosystem.
I’m using an iPhone 6s right now and this phone does everything I want and then some. The only reason I would upgrade is for bettter battery life or maybe a faster processor. Everything else it does perfectly well for me. So why would I want to replace it with a phone that forces me to use a dongle just to continue using it the way I’ve been doing for years? Especially if that dongle negates every size advantage that not having a jack might add.
As for me not wanting to stay current with tech (as someone above said), it’s because, for me, wireless earphones and dongles are a major step backwards. For you, not having a cable and having batteries might be a feature. For me, having a cable and not having batteries is a feature. I don’t want bulky or expensive dongles.
Anyway, unless Apple decides to cater for people like me again, I’m not going to buy any nore of their devices (and I’m not someone who doesn’t buy Apple anyway, I own multiple Apple devices)