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Hmm this could lose them a large chunk of the audiophile/music lovers market (though they may be losing that anyway). A lot of top quality headphones don't have
by ck425 10y ago
Hmm this could lose them a large chunk of the audiophile/music lovers market (though they may be losing that anyway). A lot of top quality headphones don't have removable wires and carrying an adapter is a pain. Why choose Apple anymore when you've brilliant music phones like the HTC 10, LG V10 and vivo xplay 5 kicking around.
- throwanem 10y agoThat is a tiny market. I doubt they much care.
- ck425 10y agoIt's certainly not huge but I don't think it's tiny either. There's a growing market of people who care deeply about audio quality. Perhaps not to 'proper audiophile' level but enough to choose a phone largely on music. Would explain why HTC, LG and several Chinese brands are specifically targeting that area.
- song 10y agoBy buying Beats, they've already shown that they don't care about the audiophile market... There's not many worse sounding headphones in their price ranges. The serious audiophile market though already has headphone amps and will just buy one that connects directly to the lightning connector.
- ck425 10y agoHmm with phones like the HTC 10 and LG V10 coming with built in amps there's a number of folk saving external amp/dac for home builds and using top music phones for on the go.
- JetSetWilly 10y agoThey'll just love the excuse to buy an external DAC/amp that connects via lightning.