This week I had a small debate, almost non-existent because we agreed almost 100%, with a reader of this blog. Is it okay for Apple to remove the 3.5mm port from its next iPhone? I think so, but with nuances. The 3.5mm port It is already many, many years old and there are already better ones, such as the Lightning. It is time to evolve. That is why I see it well that Apple, as an important company that it is, takes the step. But on the other hand, it is best for all users to use a standard port, which would allow us to use any headset or buy really cheap accessories.
But my opinion is solely and exclusively my own and I may be wrong. Sure there are users who prefer the lightning and not him USB-C to replace the 3.5m jack and others you will think that you do not have to change the port in any case. If you are from the last group, you have to know that you are not the only ones and there is even a group of more than 200.000 people who have started an online petition so that Apple does not take a step that, they assure, will be taken «to annoy customers and the planet«.
According to the petition, which at the time of writing this article has already managed to exceed the target of 210.000 signatures, «Apple is going to rip off each of its customers. Again«. In addition to the extra expense that we would have to make users, they also say that we would create piles of junk on electronic devices, a waste that could never be recycled.
On the one hand, I think they are right, and a lot. First the extra expense that we will have to do. And then, but not least, the environment. But, on the other hand, to respect the environment we would have to do much more than maintain a port on electronic devices. USB-C will soon be the standard used by almost all electronic devices and no one has started a petition for USB-A to continue to be used. The same thing happened with the televisions that could not use a DTT, no matter how "well" they worked. Where I want to go is the question: Do we have to stop evolving? If so, let's all (myself included) from buying electronic devices.
If you agree with everything that is said in the petition and you want to sign it, you just have to click on THIS LINK and leave your data.
The 3,5mm port is not a thing of another world, the safest and most probable thing is that it disappears; soon other manufacturers will follow suit, let's give time to time. That port, as well as the connection for charging, are an anachronism, an incoherence with technological advances, they also add the aesthetic inconvenience and for the watertightness of the phone if it is to be waterproof. Bluetooth for headphones and induction for recharging; no cables, and if you hurry me no buttons.
If you want to lay the foundations, and not be one of the bunch, you have to get out of the trite and innovate.
At this point, it is no longer worth more of the same, or the same dog with a different collar.
Induction for recharging is nothing more than, as I have said in another blog post, a technological "posture" that has more drawbacks than advantages over current cable charging. Another thing would be a really wireless charging, that is, as if it were a Wifi / Bluetooth signal. I also know that it is already being tested on this.
Two usb-c ports one up and one down. And if not in time, whether they want to or not will have to.
Someone go to the trouble of taking 200.000 percent out of let's say 100 million, thank you. Applicants, buyers.
The future is wireless, without wires. And if there are no cables, you do not need the plugs to connect those cables.
I'm not saying no, but today you can't eradicate at a stroke the millions and millions of accessories that use that jack because people are not going to swallow but it is not a joke. This has to be done little by little and for people to start buying those wireless headphones but by their own decision and of course with prices similar to those of headphones with a 3.5mm jack and I'm not even talking about the price of a Bose but not even that of a Chinese.
On the other hand, a USB-C to 3,5mm Jack adapter would cost four bitches because the USB-C connector would have to be released by Apple so that ALL manufacturers could use it, that is, leaving the iPhone 7 only with USB-C connector (I repeat, with the connector released), it would not be a problem, but spending the € 30 on average that a Lightning to 3,5mm Jack adapter will surely cost is a full-fledged scam and all because Apple gets out of there. I certainly do not drink.
A note that you will like: USB-C is not owned by Apple. He collaborated in its development, but it is not his 😉
I edit my comment: some say it was invented by Apple when researching for the Lightning. He donated it and it's standard. But Apple does not give anything for nothing, so it must be a connector that they perfectly control that they have as a wildcard if they are forced to use a standard, which they will do. In the end, they will use a connector that they created.
Well, look, I was completely sure that it was owned by Apple, being as you say I reaffirm even more in my positions. If Apple removes the iPhone 7 without a jack but with a USB-C connector, I will continue with Apple, if they remove it with Lightning (a connector that will not disappear for too long, at least in Europe), I'm going.
I join the 200 thousand
This is Moses
Signed. That is, as I was debating with Pablo the other day, if the rumor was the USB-C connector, I would not have signed.
Being the Lightning, it is more than obvious that it would be nothing more than a move by Apple to fill our pockets at our expense, especially knowing how we know that at least in Europe manufacturers could not sell their products if they do not have a charging / data port. common, and it is assumed that the chosen one will be the USB-C created paradoxically also by Apple.
I already said that everyone with their money can do whatever they want, which is theirs for that, but since the iPhone 7 comes out without a jack and only with a Lightning port, I change platforms, and apparently I will not be the only one.
THAT STUPID SERIOUSLY ASK APPLE Q NOT TO REMOVE IT BUT OF COURSE SAMSUNG AND HTC REMOVE IT AND THEN THEY SAY TO APPLE COPION -_- I DO WANT TO REMOVE ITEEEE WE HAVE TO EVOLVE AND APPLE ALWAYS MARK THE DIFFERENCE
Apple will be a pioneer in removing the 3,5 jack, they are not the first to raise it, if someone has to take the step that they are.
Well, I honestly think it is an abuse, you can make a thinner mobile while keeping the connector, what Apple does is remove the brown of having to manage the audio converter, for high definition audio, and that we have to pay a pasture in headphones with lightning connector, which have it integrated. I think that people who have spent money on good headphones have the right to amortize them. And that's my humble opinion. It's like 16 gig iPhones.
I love my iphone, but I don't like being teased either, and I know there are people who will say to change brands, etc ...
But I think that users also have the right to give our opinion. I have signed the petition.
I think it is a logical step to remove the 3,5 connector. Any appliance with an adapter can always be recycled. And the adapter doesn't have to be expensive. You go to any website, and you find cheap quality adapters, and others that fulfill their function even cheaper without any risk.
I have been using a USB to 40-pin adapter for my iPod for many years, and USB - LUGHTING for my iphone, and the cost… € 2. So it is not so much the unfolding.
And what is the problem with Apple eliminating the 3,5 Jack if everyone who buys a new Apple device in its box is an iphone, ipod or ipad has their original headphones that are included as accessories in the box along with the charger and its respective usb cable. If they have to eliminate it in order to evolve and make them thinner than do it. Just as there are many iPhone users who use the 3,5 headphone jack, there are others who do not.
I sweat it if they take it off or not, I'll keep buying iPhones my whole life.
Remove the jack It is not progress, it is a sovereign g…. and a way to get more money from all of us. Explain to me, oh great enlightened one, what do I do then with my 300 euro senheiser?
Are you going to give me 300 bucks or more to buy me other senheiser lightning? Do not ?
It is very easy to spout nonsense like that, what if progress, what if the future, etc.
Has someone asked that the jack be removed and / or that it should evolve? And then usb-c, the new standard…. Standard of what? Putting a single port is a standard? What births are you telling me? Neither standard nor stories, it's just another way to get the rooms. We will see the 4 cats that are going to buy that iPhone without a jack ... They will run to buy a 30 euro adapter to continue using their helmets that ohhh surprise, they have a jack connector !!!