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Sounds like a bit of a dick...
by ifh-hn 4mo ago
Sounds like a bit of a dick...
- yonatan8070 4mo agoOne word: "Courage"
- ifh-hn 4mo agoNot sure I understand? Sounds like a temper tantrum to me.
- kenferry 4mo agoInside joke. Apple's marketing guy used the word "courage" as an explanation when removing the headphone jack.
- LPisGood 4mo agoThat decision had a lot of detractors at the time, but it ultimately seems to have been correct.
- _carbyau_ 4mo agoIt still has a lot of detractors but it is hard to beat such a sheer market flex.
- m463 4mo agoI don't know if I agree. People who moved to bluetooth got arguably worse sound quality. For wired headphones, there were very few lightning headphones and they mostly sucked. Now with usb-c you can get a broader range of headphones (because other phones have gone with usb-c). either kind needs a dac inside the dongle, or the shell of the headphone, or have a bulky external dac. 3.5mm is still king for decent wired headphones/earbuds.
- jianfenglin 4mo agoMost people don't like wire and don't care about genuinely good sound through wire vs. artificially sweetened (DSP-ed) sound through Bluetooth. That's what Apple is targeting at, the mass consumer.
- d3Xt3r 4mo agoWired headphones are making a comeback though. They're even considered trendy/fashionable now. https://www.cnn.com/world/wired-headphones-comeback-spc https://www.cnn.com/world/wired-headphones-comeback-spc https://mashable.com/article/wired-headphones-instagram-account-tiktok https://mashable.com/article/wired-headphones-instagram-acco...
- Shorel 4mo agoHonestly that "most people" seems to be more marketing driven than real opinion. When you simply can't purchase one thing, then you move to the next thing. I have several wired and wireless headphones, all for different uses, and the existence of wireless headphones don't make the wired ones less useful for their particular strenghts.
- Shorel 4mo agoIt was wrong then, it is still wrong now. All my three phones have a headphone jack. I don't have or plan to have an iPhone.
- RajX-dev 4mo agolol
- MoonWalk 4mo agoFour words: You're holding it wrong.
- paulddraper 4mo agoThey unilaterally issued a press release about Apple's upcoming release. That's kinda a no-no for partnerships.
- rib3ye 4mo agoGoing scorched earth was kind of Steve’s thing.
- MoonWalk 4mo agoHe was, but this incident wasn't an example. That's a righteous punishment for an infraction like that.
- therealpygon 4mo agoFor violating an embargo and publishing a press release announcing products of another company that hadn’t been debuted? What “non-dick” response do you think is appropriate against a prospective partner that violated clear guidelines that defined their partnership which basically included “#1: Keep your mouth shut”, exactly?
- kazinator 4mo agoI believe that the action does reflect Jobs' ego in the following way. Namely, his belief that CEO == company. Jobs would never take the view that the action of the CEO of ATI is actually one bad actor acting alone which doesn't represent what ATI wants as an organization, and is unfair and damaging to that organization and all of its employees. The reason he would not take that view is because then he would not be able to believe that he is the single most important thing at Apple, overshadowing everything else. If the leak had been the responsibility of some rank and file employee at ATI, with appropriate action taken against that employee by the ATI CEO, it is likely that Jobs would likely have reacted differently, because it then would not longer be seen as a personal matter between him and the CEO, where the corporations are just pawns in a game of teach-you-a-lesson.
- Hendrikto 4mo agoUltimately, it is the CEO who has to take responsibility. They are the chief executive officer, after all. And they are well compensated for it.
- kazinator 4mo agoBut did you notice how this was backwards: the company taking responsibility for the CEO's actions, in the court presided by Jobs.