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Yeah! And why can't don't they have ports for SD cards, USB sticks, and floppy disks! At some point, things change. We're at that point with wired headphones.

by D13Fd 4y ago

Yeah! And why can't don't they have ports for SD cards, USB sticks, and floppy disks! At some point, things change. We're at that point with wired headphones. You can already share Bluetooth headphones across a Mac/iPhone/Tablet with extreme ease. And if you really want, you can adapt regular wired headphones to bluetooth. And on iPads specifically, it's not like people are carrying them around in their pocket to listen to music.

dont__panic 4y ago
Hilarious. SD card support in phones and tablets is another requirement for me, and yet another reason why I won't buy Apple products in those categories. Built-in storage is expensive and anemic. SD cards are especially appropriate for photo and music storage, since they're read-heavy workloads and convenient to transfer between devices when you want to move the data around. I don't care what anybody says: bluetooth is still trash: - I routinely block bluetooth signals with just my body, for instance when I exercise with my phone in my pocket. - Bluetooth headphones live on borrowed time since batteries are not repairable in most over-ear models, much less buds. - I don't want to manage another set of batteries. - Bluetooth audio suffers from an order of magnitude greater latency than wired audio. - Bluetooth audio is noticeably worse quality, and codec compatibility is a mess between devices. - Using bluetooth for audio input and output simultaneously inevitably results in garbage quality for both. Just ask any of my coworkers in an audio call where they use AirPods. Obviously floppy discs are not needed anymore, especially in mobile form factors. By "USB sticks," I assume you're referring to USB-A ports, and guess what: I still have a ton of USB-A devices, and I'm not about to generate pounds of ewaste by throwing out the devices and/or cables. That port is going to be useful for years still. But you bring up a good point: why can't we at least have two USB-C ports on the iPad Pro? Wouldn't it be useful to charge and use a peripheral sometimes? People play games and watch videos all the time on iPads. The aux jack is useful. There's almost certainly enough free space in the chassis to fit the port. It's great that you're utterly in love with bluetooth and you can't imagine using anything else, but it really sucks for everyone else that we don't even have an option any more.
gkbrk 4y ago
Huh? Android phones support SD cards and USB sticks.

by D13Fd 4y ago

dont__panic 4y ago

Hilarious. SD card support in phones and tablets is another requirement for me, and yet another reason why I won't buy Apple products in those categories. Built-in storage is expensive and anemic. SD cards are especially appropriate for photo and music storage, since they're read-heavy workloads and convenient to transfer between devices when you want to move the data around. I don't care what anybody says: bluetooth is still trash: - I routinely block bluetooth signals with just my body, for instance when I exercise with my phone in my pocket. - Bluetooth headphones live on borrowed time since batteries are not repairable in most over-ear models, much less buds. - I don't want to manage another set of batteries. - Bluetooth audio suffers from an order of magnitude greater latency than wired audio. - Bluetooth audio is noticeably worse quality, and codec compatibility is a mess between devices. - Using bluetooth for audio input and output simultaneously inevitably results in garbage quality for both. Just ask any of my coworkers in an audio call where they use AirPods. Obviously floppy discs are not needed anymore, especially in mobile form factors. By "USB sticks," I assume you're referring to USB-A ports, and guess what: I still have a ton of USB-A devices, and I'm not about to generate pounds of ewaste by throwing out the devices and/or cables. That port is going to be useful for years still. But you bring up a good point: why can't we at least have two USB-C ports on the iPad Pro? Wouldn't it be useful to charge and use a peripheral sometimes? People play games and watch videos all the time on iPads. The aux jack is useful. There's almost certainly enough free space in the chassis to fit the port. It's great that you're utterly in love with bluetooth and you can't imagine using anything else, but it really sucks for everyone else that we don't even have an option any more.

gkbrk 4y ago

Huh? Android phones support SD cards and USB sticks.