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Apple is a sacred cow on HN. You'll probably get modded down. By definition, fashion electronics must require you to spend more.
by ctstover 11y ago
Apple is a sacred cow on HN. You'll probably get modded down. By definition, fashion electronics must require you to spend more.
- orionblastar 11y agoOddly enough I was modded up because I made some good points. Apple may be a sacred cow on HN, but if one makes good points about them one might not get modded down. I chose an Android phone because it allows emulators and development tools on it. I was considering an iPhone in the future, but maybe not if they get rid of the headphone jack. Apple already got rid of the floppy and DVD drive on their Macs, got rid of serial ports and used USB ports, and now change what USB ports they have. There is always still a use for legacy devices and that is how IBM's Microchannel failed and PCs with ISA slots beat it. For example the Square device that accepts debt and credit cards uses the headphone jack, if Apple does away with it, people can no longer use to to accept credit and debit cards. There are a lot of devices for the iPhone that use the headphone jack for various things. They would all have to be redesigned to use the lighting port instead and that will cost more money to license it from Apple.