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They don't work for either of us and yet Apple wants to force us into using them
by brian-armstrong 10y ago
They don't work for either of us and yet Apple wants to force us into using them
- pwinnski 10y agoI'm sorry, what? They want to... force you to spend $160? Huh?
- peteretep 10y agoThey'd love to! They just can't, yet
- neotek 10y agoHow are they forcing you to do anything?
- brian-armstrong 10y agoThey've also removed the headphone jack from the newest model iPhone. You can get an adapter that adds it back, but obviously this is fairly inconvenient. Apple's counting on this to get people to toss their old earbuds/headphones. Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated
- peteretep 10y agoLuckily Apple don't have a monopoly on wireless headphones?
- hobarrera 10y agoYou can use some plain old bluetooth headsets like most people have been for years. If you really dislike wireless for some reason, you can also get lighting earbuds (I think the iPhone 7 actually includes some). Finally, if you like all these ideas so much, you can avoid purchasing the product you dislike. It's not like they're forcing this onto existing clients by disabling the existing 3.5mm jack.
- spost 10y agoOr use the included lightning -> 3.5 mm adapter.
- neotek 10y ago>Maybe force is too strong, but it certainly seems physically connected audio devices are now deprecated Well yeah, they sort of are. The future is wireless, there's really no denying that at this point.
- kevinstubbs 10y agoApple sells wired headphones for the lightning port. I'm personally not interested in upgrading because I don't want to use their headphones or get a lightning port adapter just for the phone. You're not forced to use the AirPods, but you are forced to use the lightning port (bleh) or bluetooth (meh).
- arcdigital 10y agoThe lightning port adapter comes with the phone.