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That seems extremely unlikely at best, verging on a conspiracy theory.
by gamble 18y ago
That seems extremely unlikely at best, verging on a conspiracy theory.
- andreyf 18y agoIt seems plausible to me - they're talking about the buttons on the wire going up to the buds communicating back to the device... I'm certainly no expert, but I can't think of any other devices that do that via a standard 3.5mm socket.
- windsurfer 18y agoI had a CD player made by Panasonic around 1997 that used buttons on the wire to pause/play and skip songs.
- briansmith 18y agoI doubt they have a patent on the headphone thing. My Nokia N-series phone has a 3.5" headphone jack and it ships with an inline remote that is similar in functionality to the controls on an iPod shuffle. My Sony and Panasonic portable CD players from 10 years ago also had a similar thing.
- psadauskas 18y agoI have an old MP3 player that has a volume control, play/pause and skip in the earbud wires that go to a 3.5mm jack (but the earbuds have a 4-conductor plug). Also, the 4-conductor 3.5mm doubles as the USB port for uploading songs to it. You can also use normal 3.5mm headphones with it, you just loose the volume control functions.
- survivalkit 18y agoNokia phones do it, at least the N95.
- jcl 18y agoApparently a lot of the HTC smartphones (of which the G1 is one) use the same USB audio connector scheme. If Apple made any demands, it was to HTC, not Google... which strikes me as unlikely, too.