Editor in Chief Michael Gorman, executive editor Christopher Trout and managing editor Dana Wollman join host Terrence O’Brien for a special all Apple edition of the podcast from San Francisco. On the show they’ll search for the definition of courage, tell you what it’s really like on the floor of a major press event and give a state of the Apple union.
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- Two years later, Apple has figured out what its watch is good for
- Apple announces the water-resistant iPhone 7 and 7 Plus
- The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are all about subtle, powerful changes
- Apple’s AirPods are smart wireless earbuds with a new W1 chip
- Apple’s AirPods toe the line between usefulness and gimmickry
- Apple adds real-time collaboration to iWork
- What happened at the iPhone event
- Courage is not how you sell iPhones
- Nintendo loses a little piece of its identity with ‘Super Mario Run’
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courageous would have been replacing the proprietary lightening port with USB 3.0
Then the world could move from 3.5mm headphones to USB3.0 headphones.
Now we have to have at least 2 models for every headphone, that is lightening and 3.5 or lightening and USB 3.0.
And also all peripherals fitting USB 3.0 could potentially be made compatible with iPhone and probably more important iPad.
An opportunity missed that will never come back.
“We’re trying to make great products for people, and we have at least the courage of our convictions to say we don’t think this is part of what makes a great product, we’re going to leave it out. Some people are going to not like that, they’re going to call us names […] but we’re going to take the heat [and] instead focus our energy on these technologies which we think are in their ascendancy and we think are going to be the right technologies for customers. And you know what? They’re paying us to make those choices […] If we succeed, they’ll buy them, and if we don’t, they won’t, and it’ll all work itself out.”
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Lame.
Troops are courageous, the take real risks!!! So please Apple, stop insulting the world just because you have run out ideas. Real people use real words, what are you? For sure not a soldier…!
As a hard-core Apple user, I do find the use of the word courage to be a bit cringe-worthy. But it pretty much indicates that even they were worried about the move. That’s pretty significant coming from the company that’s not afraid to cannibalize their own products, force the industry to adopt USB, drop the floppy drive, and the optical drive as well!
There is absolutely no benefit from removing the 3.5 port for consumers, none. Digital sound has to be converted into analog before it is transmitted to speakers and from mics, it makes no sense to move that conversion to a cheap dongle or create more complexity in the headphones. The phone has to have the converters for its own internal speakers and mics anyway, why double that?
Yes, Apple is huge.. if anybody is going to push people to move towards the future, it will be them, others will follow. People have said the same thing about previous things, and always end up moving forward. Just like Flash to HTML5. People complained so much that if a phone didn’t have Flash they wouldn’t buy it, yeah. The headphone jack is old. I think it’s about that time. The same was said with FAX machines, phones with no keyboards, cassette tapes, floppy disks, ect… People were just as annoying as today talking about how they’ve messed up for removing this and that. Even directors argued with film vs digital, now you see all the big name directors using Red. Millions of people already don’t use the headphone jacks and prefer wireless. They’re not trying to make you buy the lightning jack with headphone jacks, it’s just an option for you to have that way you can still use your older devices. They’re really pushing for the wireless tech they have. This is not bluetooth, you’re getting more bandwidth (12x), more bit-rate (300x), more range (4x) if the wireless is anything like wifi.