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One of Apple's core tenents is 'to hell with legacy' Lightning headphones are a stop gap. The future is wireless.

by kirykl 10y ago

jonknee 10y ago
My issue with this is there are wireless headphones today, you don't need to remove the headphone jack to support them. It's a step back for no compelling reason.
jjawssd 10y ago
That would make sense if wired wasn't far superior to wireless from a reliability and throughput standpoint
- ceejayoz 10y ago
  The iPhone's Bluetooth 4 is capable of 24 Mbps. If that's not enough throughput for your music listening, I'm not sure what to tell you.
  - falcolas 10y ago
    I work in an office with a lot of 2.4 GHZ wifi going on - bluetooth anything (including keyboard and mouse) doesn't work worth a damned in that environment. Wireless is a poor substitute for wired in most real-world usecases. Wireless gives you: unpredictable performance, latency, contention for available frequencies, and having to deal with batteries. I think it's OK for wifi, only because most of the time the bandwidth of wifi is greater than the bandwidth of your ISP. But I think that's a problem with the state of ISPs, not a blessing of wifi.
- heartbreak 10y ago
  Were you given early access to Apple's "wireless" AirBuds?
  - ForFreedom 10y ago
    Yes, apparently he saw the keynote before anyone
    - jjawssd 10y ago
      Explain plz
thebaer 10y ago
I might be convinced of that when they improve the battery technology. No company on the planet except for Apple can say "wireless is the future" and charge $159 for buds that last 5 hours.
- petra 10y ago
  The battery in my jaws neckband earphones should last 13 hours. Btw a neckband should have been the ideal form factor for this - comfortable, great battery life, doesn't require expensive tech like earpods , hard to lose, buttons.
  - vxNsr 10y ago
    Neckbands look ugly and unwieldy, not saying people don't like them just that Apple would never make them.
fnj 10y ago
Another of Apple's core tenets is "milk those cows [customers] for all they've got". They couldn't care less about any other market segment than the pure luxury status-seeker segment.
- eyelidlessness 10y ago
  If that were the case, they would discontinue OS X, but they've spent the last several versions adding features nerds use.

One of Apple's core tenents is 'to hell with legacy' Lightning headphones are a stop gap. The future is wireless.

by kirykl 10y ago

One of Apple's core tenents is 'to hell with legacy' Lightning headphones are a stop gap. The future is wireless.

My issue with this is there are wireless headphones today, you don't need to remove the headphone jack to support them. It's a step back for no compelling reason.

jjawssd 10y ago

That would make sense if wired wasn't far superior to wireless from a reliability and throughput standpoint

ceejayoz 10y ago
The iPhone's Bluetooth 4 is capable of 24 Mbps. If that's not enough throughput for your music listening, I'm not sure what to tell you.
- falcolas 10y ago
  I work in an office with a lot of 2.4 GHZ wifi going on - bluetooth anything (including keyboard and mouse) doesn't work worth a damned in that environment. Wireless is a poor substitute for wired in most real-world usecases. Wireless gives you: unpredictable performance, latency, contention for available frequencies, and having to deal with batteries. I think it's OK for wifi, only because most of the time the bandwidth of wifi is greater than the bandwidth of your ISP. But I think that's a problem with the state of ISPs, not a blessing of wifi.
heartbreak 10y ago
Were you given early access to Apple's "wireless" AirBuds?
- ForFreedom 10y ago
  Yes, apparently he saw the keynote before anyone
  - jjawssd 10y ago
    Explain plz

thebaer 10y ago

I might be convinced of that when they improve the battery technology. No company on the planet except for Apple can say "wireless is the future" and charge $159 for buds that last 5 hours.

petra 10y ago
The battery in my jaws neckband earphones should last 13 hours. Btw a neckband should have been the ideal form factor for this - comfortable, great battery life, doesn't require expensive tech like earpods , hard to lose, buttons.
- vxNsr 10y ago
  Neckbands look ugly and unwieldy, not saying people don't like them just that Apple would never make them.

fnj 10y ago

Another of Apple's core tenets is "milk those cows [customers] for all they've got". They couldn't care less about any other market segment than the pure luxury status-seeker segment.

eyelidlessness 10y ago
If that were the case, they would discontinue OS X, but they've spent the last several versions adding features nerds use.