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They're never coming back, and they don't care about it or your opinion; you aren't the customer they are interested in and sales are even better than before.

They're never coming back, and they don't care about it or your opinion; you aren't the customer they are interested in and sales are even better than before. >High-quality wired headphones can create a business incentive for headphone jacks. Why do you think they removed it? They made it to sell more expensive BT headphones; they made a lot more money after removing the headphone jack. You can't even disable wireless in the control center so why would they want to make a physical switch?

walterbell 5y ago
> They made it to sell more expensive BT headphones There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create a new proprietary wired port. > why would they want to make a physical switch? Charge a premium for a new tier of phone? Reclaim some credibility lost from the push for on-device content scanning? Apple Touch Bars were once inevitable, but are now gone. Touch ID, functional keyboards and Mag Safe have returned. Framework is shipping a well-received laptop with modular ports. GPD Pocket 3 has an HDMI input port which would be welcome on an iPad Pro. Former leaders of the Apple Silicon team are now at Qualcomm-ex-Nuvia and will influence future PC OEM Arm laptop designs. Never say never.
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  >There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create a new proprietary wired port. Because they needed BT to work on the new phones. By that logic, the lightning connector are wired headphones you want that already exist. >Charge a premium for a new tier of phone? Reclaim some credibility lost from the push for on-device content scanning? Who decides its premium? If people cared, they'd make a bigger deal about the control center not disabling the radios, nobody they are selling to cares. Where is the evidence it will be a selling point or give any credibility against on device scanning? I have never heard anyone who wants a new iPhone care about that, and they have never retracted their iPhone changes. The average person buying an iPhone will care more about the camera megapixels than any of these features.
  - walterbell 5y ago
    As phones move from entertainment devices to digital identity and currency wallets, on-device signals can (e.g. physical proximity/presence data is purchased from adtech companies by U.S. IRS/Treasury) have real-life consequences. Add unpredictable governments to interoperable phone finance/health/travel credentials and there's a lot of potential for sudden education on previously-invisible phone behaviors.

walterbell 5y ago

> They made it to sell more expensive BT headphones There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create a new proprietary wired port. > why would they want to make a physical switch? Charge a premium for a new tier of phone? Reclaim some credibility lost from the push for on-device content scanning? Apple Touch Bars were once inevitable, but are now gone. Touch ID, functional keyboards and Mag Safe have returned. Framework is shipping a well-received laptop with modular ports. GPD Pocket 3 has an HDMI input port which would be welcome on an iPad Pro. Former leaders of the Apple Silicon team are now at Qualcomm-ex-Nuvia and will influence future PC OEM Arm laptop designs. Never say never.

GhettoComputers 5y ago
>There's some crazy-expensive wired headphones out there, which don't stop anyone from buying pricy BT headphones. If they want to maximize rent-seeking, create a new proprietary wired port. Because they needed BT to work on the new phones. By that logic, the lightning connector are wired headphones you want that already exist. >Charge a premium for a new tier of phone? Reclaim some credibility lost from the push for on-device content scanning? Who decides its premium? If people cared, they'd make a bigger deal about the control center not disabling the radios, nobody they are selling to cares. Where is the evidence it will be a selling point or give any credibility against on device scanning? I have never heard anyone who wants a new iPhone care about that, and they have never retracted their iPhone changes. The average person buying an iPhone will care more about the camera megapixels than any of these features.
- walterbell 5y ago
  As phones move from entertainment devices to digital identity and currency wallets, on-device signals can (e.g. physical proximity/presence data is purchased from adtech companies by U.S. IRS/Treasury) have real-life consequences. Add unpredictable governments to interoperable phone finance/health/travel credentials and there's a lot of potential for sudden education on previously-invisible phone behaviors.