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I should start measuring the time I spend fishing around my cluttered desk looking for that stupid dongle because I'm now done with a Hangouts call on my laptop
by kjsthree 10y ago
I should start measuring the time I spend fishing around my cluttered desk looking for that stupid dongle because I'm now done with a Hangouts call on my laptop and would like to switch back to my phone to play a podcast. iPhone 7 will crush that metric! Oh wait, lower is better? Eph!
There's also that time that it was 2pm and I still hadn't had lunch. I ended a Hangouts call, yanked my headphones out of my mbp, cruised over to the elevator, and excitedly made my way to Eataly for a prime rib sandwich. Sat down with my sandy, pulled 1/8" jack toward base of phone… Eph again!
The experiences that end in me loathing Apple are building slowly and steadily.
- CodeWriter23 10y agoSee, your problem is you need a 1/8" (male) to lightning (female) dongle that you leave on your laptop. Then switch to lightning headphones and you're all set. Because dongles magically fix everything.
- adrinavarro 10y agoIt does suck. I've remedied it by using bluetooth earphones & also bringing an adapter (which is pretty small) in my wallet, along with a microusb-to-lightning adapter. And now I'm pretty happy with my phone.
- andrei_says_ 10y agoAll of this is extra effort to fix broken usability. Not much but frequent and unavoidable. All this subsidizes apple's decision to not offer an effortless solution for very common use cases. Bringing a dongle is an effort. Replacing existing headphones is an effort. Paying extra ateention to which Apple-made earbuds I bring is an effort. Buying bt headphones and charging them is an effort. What am I buying with the extra efforts I need to invest in activities which required no such efforts before? The sound is not better. I am not going to swim with my phone. My only conclusion is that I do this for Apple, not for me.