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Lightning might be great mechanically, but from a practical usage point of view it's a pain. Wired headphone solutions are just nasty. It's gone from a positi

Lightning might be great mechanically, but from a practical usage point of view it's a pain. Wired headphone solutions are just nasty. It's gone from a position where I could use the same 3.5mm jack on basically any phone, laptop or PC, to a situation where I either go for lots of dongles, which is an extra expense and also tends not work perfectly or I buy multiple sets of headphones for different devices, which isn't great if you want moderately expensive ANC kit. The idea that I can buy an Apple laptop, and Apple phone and then have to buy multiple additional dongles and cables to effectively connect the two is just bizarre. Realistically it would be better if Apple standardised on USB-C for phone and had a mix of USB-A/USB-C on laptops for a period of time whilst peripherals catch up.

imtringued 8y ago
Even wireless headphones don't solve this problem. You still need to buy a seperate aptX low latency dongle. Obviously you can't expect every cheapass bluetooth headphone to come with aptX LL but on a $1000+ laptop or $800+ phone? Adding an aptX LL transceiver is the bare minimum you should do if you care even the tiniest bit about pushing wireless. Regular bluetooth is terrible. It's a tradeoff between convenience and quality, not an obvious incremental upgrade that you should always choose. It's strange that even in 2018 wireless still isn't better or equal than wired in every situation yet it's being forced down our throats through removal of universally compatible ports.