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People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' (craveonline.com)
TechRax -- a popular YouTuber who destroys technology for fame and riches -- has uploaded a video where he drills a hole into an iPhone 7, claiming it to be a "secret hack" to reinstall a headphone jack in the device. The only problem is that he didn't tell people it was a joke, and of course, some people fell for it. Crave Online reports: The YouTube video has amassed over 7.5 million views since being posted online last week, with it attracting 81,000 dislikes in the process. The comments section is currently torn between people who are in on the joke, people who criticize TechRax for damaging his iPhone 7, and most unfortunately, people who have tried the "hack" out for themselves. Although this is YouTube so you can never be quite sure of whether or not these folks are trolling, parsing the comments section reveals some pretty convincing complaints lobbed in TechRax's direction. It's also firmly believable that there are people dumb enough to attempt drilling a hole into their iPhone 7, which is unfortunate but that's the way the world is in 2016. You can read the comments under the YouTube video for more "convincing complaints." But as if the report didn't make it clear enough already, the video is a joke. Apple removed the headphone jack and there's no way to get it back, unless you use an adapter.
You have to be stupid to buy an iPhone in the first place, so how can you expect them not to be stupid enough to fall for this?
There's absolutely zero proof anyone has done it bar the video. Yet it's being reported as fact?
Between this sort of "news" and the click bait SJW stuff (no not all the discrimination is SJW) I'm wondering why I bother anymore.
Shell of what it once was.
If you're ignorant enough to buy a $700 cellphone that comes with no headphone jack, then chances are you're ignorant enough to take a power drill to it. You'll find my sympathy somewhat lacking here.
Good people go to bed earlier.
You'd think that, that many views would tell apple that people would like the headphone jack to remain. But I know they don't care. Hopefully other manufacturers will realize this and not remove it too. Regardless, I have no plans to get a new phone until my currently 2 generation old phone dies.
Yep just like how the non-removable battery didn't catch on. I mean how could a non-removable battery be a safety issue or cost a company billions in lost stock value?
No chance in hell. Apple is going to make a fortune selling replacement AirPods.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
I was surprised that It still worked (the phone not the jack) but considering it did they apparently didn't do anything with the space they saved.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
We get it! So you don't like Apple, fine. Can't see why anyone would buy an iPhone, fine, we all get it! Now, try really, really hard to imagine why someone might want one beyond what you already believe. Perhaps the fact that an update doesn't have to filter through twenty layers of business major who can't understand either the code or the implications or the full impact of the hole in the code. Perhaps it is the FBI's inability to overreach past an iPhone 5c (and remember, Steve did NOT want to make it in the first place) or the fact that even the slightest security flaw --and they almost always turn out to be all about the 5c-- is big news whereas Android is such a sieve that no security flaw, regardless of how big a flaw it is, is news anymore. Sure, there are some who just want to show you the Apple in the back but if you can get off your high horse long enough to notice that only tech inclined people ever root their Android phones and most people never change anything other than the screen an icon appears in, maybe you could see why someone might buy an iPhone.
That being said, anyone that thinks that by drilling a hole (not even using a drill press) in the case they are going to find a hidden jack has also already bought into the "secret 90 mpg carburetor" or the car that runs on a 9 volt battery. People do not like the things they do not understand and many people (trump supporters are, for the most part, found among these) feel that the world is not merely passing them by, it left them behind! Sadly, what they do not understand includes history, they forget the rough times and the horrid things people did to one another, they forget why they had not bought a Chevy or a Ford in decades, they forget that someone helped them when they needed it, most of all, they forget when they needed help because they voted for someone who clearly did not have their best interest in mind. Drilling a hole in a phone (for which you just paid more than 700 dollars) and expecting to find that there indeed IS a conspiracy and that the jack is still there is a symptom of a much larger problem. Nostalgia is not yearning for what was, nostalgia is yearning for a fantasy; yearning for what never was.
Then there is the fear of what will be that seems unimaginable and unintelligible; not understanding "what" makes it nearly impossible to understand "why".