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Still bitter about killing off the 3.5" floppy, huh? I for one would like a thinner iPhone eventually. It's ridiculous to think that the thickness of the legacy
by panglott 11y ago
Still bitter about killing off the 3.5" floppy, huh? I for one would like a thinner iPhone eventually. It's ridiculous to think that the thickness of the legacy headphone jack is such a sacred cow that it should limit all future hardware designs.
- scott_karana 11y agoPretty sure that "universal interoperability of a still-useful interface with a 100+ year legacy" was the sacred cow, balanced against the "usefulness" of paper-thin, flimsy, low-mAh-speculated phones. Not its size.
- panglott 11y agoI love the stereo minijack, too. But as the author concludes "The truth is we need a new standard for headphones, and we haven’t figured out what that is yet. The shift from 3.5mm to whatever the next standard may be will be painful..." And yet, the first step will require a first step. Apple could take it, and catch hell for it, but hopefully a better future standard would be the result.
- scott_karana 11y agoI don't hold out any hope that Apple will be the harbinger of an open, interoperable format. I think other comments here have the right idea: they want to remove the last uncontrolled, competitive port on their device.