...will turn out to be tricking its customer base into renting rather than owning its software. He bought off the fiefdoms by picking winners and turning them into rent-receiving franchises.
As long as few viable alternatives exist for Office and Exchange and Windows remains their nearly exclusive platform and all turn into a rent-seeking business, Microsoft will continue to make a lot of money.
I know that is what they are trying to do. But I wonder how well this rental setup will work with things like the basic operating system. Basic, but crucial.
As an example, I use the Adobe Creative Suite a lot. But the version on my computer is old, as in Creative Suite 3. So I thought I'd give Creative Cloud a try. It was very nice. But even with my educational discount, it was going to be around 250 a year to rent it. A kilobuck over 4 years. And while Creative Cloud is very nice, the old CS3 suite is long since paid off. So I let it expire and CS3 is doing what I need to do.
The concept of pay forever, especially in critical software like Adobe CS or for Crissakes, an operating system - is like addiction. What happens if you miss a payment? Windows 10 going to bluescreen you, or hold all your files hostage until you pony up? Send some thugs over to convince you of the error of your ways?
My guess is that the subscription model will fail unless Microsoft manages to eliminate Apple and Linux, as well as make their office suite completely incompatible with all their other older operating systems, including the 1 time buy Windows 10.
And someone in here will bray about what an awesome move that is.
That's true. I use a vpn to help my privacy, but have no expectation that it would help me if i commited a serious crime. If you do, there's a good chance you'll be caught, thankfully.
Yup. Protecting your privacy on line is very sensible. I do what I can also. Where there can be confusion is the concept of of privacy, and anonymity. Some folks get a little confused, thinking that anonymity is privacy. and vice versa.
That's not the reasoning. Some are surely trustworthy. The underlying problem is that you literally have no way to tell which ones those are.
The internet is not anonymous. Never has been, never will be unless the fundamental nature off it is changed, which will destroy the internet. The only thing that gives a person any sense of anonymity is the degree of the crime, and how badly they want to find you.
Some years before people realized that Sputnik would be a problem? What? The first and immediate fears caused by Sputnik to the US was that the USSR had superior technology.
Note that I wrote that some people knew what it meant, and most didin't.
Here's a bit from a really nice and in-depth history that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. the link is https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office..., but the whole history piece is excellent, give it a read.
"American response to the Russian triumph varied considerably, depending on its source. The alarm exhibited by large sections of the public did not materialize immediately. In New York City, on "Sputnik night," phone calls poured into the offices of the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History. Practically all were from people seeking more information than the Soviet bulletin to the American press had provided-mostly amateur astronomers and ham radio operators eager to get down to the happy business of trying to acquire and track the world's first man-made satellite. At central police headquarters, a spokesman at the big switchboard, the activity of which is regarded as an index to public anxiety, reported no inquiries whatsoever. On the following day a Newsweek correspondent in Boston wrote that the "general reaction here indicates massive indifference." From Denver another Newsweek writer wired his home office that there "is a vague feeling that we have stepped into a new era, but people aren't discussing it the way they are football and the Asiatic flu.""
and a little later....
"Most Americans were aware that Russia had created an atom bomb more quickly than American authorities had considered likely. They knew that Soviet work on the hydrogen bomb had kept pace with that of the United States. As recently as August 1957, the U.S.S.R. had claimed a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test. None of these facts, however, had registered deeply in this country. Nor had the occasional story in the press hinting at an upcoming space breakthrough by the Soviet Union."
I'll stick with the concept that it took some time to actually register with most people that Sputnik and the ability to put a rocket in space meant that they could do the same with bombs.
Just like it still hasn't registered with most people that the internet was not designed with privacy - indeed the opposite is true. Just a fact that no amount of wishful thinking can change. You can do some things to make it a little better, but it will never be secure. Anyhow, whether you agree with me or not, that history of Vanguard is just delicious reading. Here's the index page. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office...
While that seems a little tongue in cheek, I'll accept it. I'll note that it calls for arrests, not killing deniers. Regardless, it is monumentally stupid.
Just so we are completely fair and balanced balanced I'll give a link on the other end. http://www.danablankenhorn.com...
Nope. Humanity has several groups of folks, and allowing those who allow their sociopathy and perversions to dominate because they are mistakenly assuming they are anonymous is a fine example of the tragedy of the commons. While these bits of human excrement are busy acting like the assholes they are, yet way too cowardly to act that way if they were to meet whoever it is they are messing with in person, the actual legitimate participants just go away. Then a group is left with nothing but the trolls and kooks, who lose interest because after ruining a group, they need their new fix.
My best example is the usenet groups. If I might use an example, the rec.radio.amateur.antenna group at one time had some world reknowned experts that you could learn from, and have a conversation with. It was priceless.
But after teh trolls and kooks came on board, some idiot that thinks antennas work by shooting off bits of themselves, and they guy who wants to go into great detail about how they want to fuck the expert's dead mother ended up chasing the experts away. They didn't need that sort of abuse, no matter how much you want to hand it out, AC.
So now we have closed groups, some of which I moderate, which simply don't put up with that. If the AC wants to be a necrophiliac, or believe that hurricanes are God's diarrhea, they can, just not on my watch.
That's why Slashdot's moderation system allows the AC to be as disgusting as they wish. They are not squelched. Unfortunately, in more tightly focused groups, we don't have time for that. Don't like it? Too bad.
Here on Slashdot, we get into the same thing here when they claim that mod points are censorship.
That's not what the word "censorship" means I would say. All posts are visible if you want to see them. If you don't want to see them, that's a preference. It's not censorship.
We see a lot of this these days, when people have a one way version of free speech, where they will say any old outrageous thing they want, then get much butthurt when people disagree with them.
Free speech does not mean that only the biggest asshole is allowed to talk, and everyone else is forced to listen. reading slashdot a level 2 and up is the only thing that makes it useable at times. But the people who have the severe psychosexual hangups about anal sex and intercourse with somoene's mother can still have their say.
And who wants to be interrupted by notifications about kooky end of the world/NASA moon landing hoax/perpetual motion/heat your house with 1 tea candle and a flowerpot/ bullshit except other kooks?
Yes, people who want to believe in them can still find them. I'm surprised no one has alleged that it must have been a reverse false flag. That Google wants you to believe a conspiracy by promoting, thus you shouldn't believe. Or that Google promoted it then removed it to encourage you believe so you shouldn't believe. "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Just give it time. Someone will. Conspiracy theorists that have conspiracy theories about other conspiracy theorists and on and on.
We are going through a transition time, as the internet has allowed stupid and loud people to have equal weight with reasoned and thinking people. Where kooks of all stripes, left and right leaning spout the most ridiculous things, and use each other's spouting to broadly paint everone they don't agree with as "the other". Unless we get a hold on this stupidity, the next step will be calling for the death of the others.
And if one doesn't agree, they will want them dead as well, because you are interfering with their free speech.
I find that most conspiracy theories not only have a lack of evidence but they also ignore lots of contrary evidence. Or they start to delve into increasing complex scenarios to try to explain away any contrary evidence.
Cherry picking the evidence. Conspiracy theories are full of that. You can see both of these in the moon landing hoaxer's arguments.
No, conspiracy theories lack evidence, period. There is no requirement that they are FALSE theories, since without evidence you have no way of knowing. You know, like it was before Snowden showed us how deep the rabbit hole went.
"The government is listening to everything!" was a conspiracy theory until that exact point - when we got the evidence. It wasn't false.
It did not take conspiracy minded folk to understand what any technology was capable of what. It dies not take a paranoid mind to understand that a system that is insecure in nature and by design, like the internet, is going to be of interest to authorities when stupid people think it is somehow secure. Snowden just gave details.
I suppose a good example of this inability of people to understand the implications of actions was Sputnik. Most Americans and the world were busy worried about national prestige, it took some years for them to understand that the satellites in orbit meant the capability of delivering warheads to your doorstep. Meanwhile people who understood the implications of actions knew.
And how is Google no longer promoting a video the same as them controlling free speech? You can still find the videos if you search for them. Google is no longer advertising them at the top of their list. If they blocked them, then you might have a point.
Here on Slashdot, we get into the same thing here when they claim that mod points are censorship.
And who wants to be interrupted by notifications about kooky end of the world/NASA moon landing hoax/perpetual motion/heat your house with 1 tea candle and a flowerpot/ bullshit except other kooks?
This is just an attempt to avoid the Tragedy of the Commons effect, where the lowest and least destroy the commons.
There was a lot of concern about declining numbers of Monarch butterflies a couple years ago, due in large part to a reduction in their food source, milkweed. So a lot of people were planting milkweed around the perimeters of their properties.
As well, I spend a lot of time on the mountain roads in Northern Pennsylvania. There are often clearings for gas lines that run alongside the dirt roads. Some people or groups have apparently been dropping milkweed seeds along these miles of clearing. This summer has seen a huge number of Monarch butterflies flitting about. Being a migratory critter that over time and generations heads to Mexico and back, Denver or other places might expect radar clouds of this species as well.
Final side note - I've been on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry between South New Jersey and Delaware, and you can see Monarchs flying across the bay on a 20 plus mile ride. I've seen them draft the ferry as well, which is a strange sight.
All in good fun of course. But on a serious note, I'm not terribly concerned about getting the utmost in fidelity from my iphone. Most of the places I might listen are going to have too much background noise. So Bluetooth or plugging in the iPhone headsets are okay by me.
The 1/8th inch phone jack also extends th ehigh and low end of any headphone, an dthe crispness efface due to the smaller spring metal used,
This sounds like the kind of stuff you read in the ads in high-end audiophile magazines, where people will sell you 000 gauge power cords for your power amps because the big wire has a lower impedance and allows the amp to reproduce low frequencies better. Or the company that was selling a gold plated digital-certified HDMI cables for, IIRC, $400, because it guaranteed error-free digital sound and video. Or deoxygenated copper cables, or any number of other snake oils.
Don't forget the gold plated fuses and special knobs. Indispensable for a distortion free listening experience!
Why those folk can't be bothered to learn the basic physics of audio reproduction is beyond me. That is fascinating all by itself., and little need for the mumbo jumbo like I wrote - and that sounds just like the bs they believe.
The real problem with removing the 3.5mm jack is with headphone durability. If you use earbuds a lot chance are you wear them out at intervals. When you have a 3.5mm jack and you drop a bud in a glass of water, you say that sucks and go buy another cheap pair of buds.
I've listened to regular 3.5 mm plug phones on my iPhone 7. It isn't magic.
Mhmm. Right. One should think of the headphone jack as a simple electrical interface, rather than some sort of magical sound-transport medium.
Well there you are wrong. My audiophile friends and me have done the experiments, and the best sound possible is found when using the small headphone jacks. It lends a vibrancy and a sort of anti-listening fatigue to teh sound. The 1/8th inch phone jack also extends th ehigh and low end of any headphone, an dthe crispness efface due to the smaller spring metal used, can make a 5 dollar headphone bought at Big Lots sound much superior to a stutio headphone, sa a Beyerdynamic. Where after listening to test tones for a hundred straight hours had people tearing the phones off their heads and run screaming out of the room, while the 5 dollar Big Lot's phones and the exquisite 1/8th inch jack and plugs we had to turn off the test tones after two weeks because we were concerned about the wearers starving to death, and they sure didn't smell good by that time.
Audiophile approved as a critical component of anyone who isn't tone deaf.
I'm glad it's fine for you. For me, it's far from fine.
What is worse, Apple makes absolutely no way that person can use th obviously superior headphone with the 1/8th inch jack It's impossible! and never will be.
And before you start shitting your pants about the Dongle, that unuseable piece of equipment that probably destroys your phone - if for some reason you actually do need top tier headphones, well, those need a dongle too as an adapter. All my studio phones have the larger jacks on them.
Yer talkin shite, and you just hate Apple, and are now getting trapped as the rest of the manufacturers abandon the poor and outdated technology that is the 1/8th inch hedphone jack.
Not going to buy a new set because Apple - or Google wants me to. Fuck them. I'd sooner switch cell phones. Eventually, the manufacturers will get the message.
Good, then you'll be happy. I've used plain old headphones with my iPhone 7.
But hey, it's good to see a man of your convictions, have you considered a feature phone?
The problem here isn't Kaspersky and Russian hackers, they're just being opportunistic.
The REAL problem here is a dumb @$$ contractor who stole classified information and brought it home.
Why isn't the contractor, both company and employee, being punished for breach of secure information? Any other countries' spooks would want this info, including our allies.
Ahh that's right, let's just take this as an opportunity to bash Russia some more while our real enemy China is cleaning out both our industrial trade and military secrets!/sarcasm
It is possible to have two problems at the same time. In fact, that usually how disasters happen. The contractor needs denutted for what he did. But that doesn't mean that software designd to compromise a person's computer is supposed to be applauded as Hey, Everone's doing it, so it's all good.
That isn't how the game works regardless of what you think. Contractor? At best a dumbass, at worst a leaker or actual spy. Kaspersky? Well everyone doing it or not, they were caught. And "Everyone does it" isn't a very good defense.
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If we don't use Windows 10, what other OS can we use instead?
Troll gets marked +4 insightful.
Not the same at all. Google is actually removing the videos from YouTube and banning the users that post them. Not the same as ranking at all.
You have the cites for that? It certainly has nothing to do with his article.
Note that I wrote that some people knew what it meant, and most didin't.
No you didn't and while some of the American people didn't see the ICBM threat, some did. The military did for sure.
Trolling fail. Good day sir.
...will turn out to be tricking its customer base into renting rather than owning its software. He bought off the fiefdoms by picking winners and turning them into rent-receiving franchises.
As long as few viable alternatives exist for Office and Exchange and Windows remains their nearly exclusive platform and all turn into a rent-seeking business, Microsoft will continue to make a lot of money.
I know that is what they are trying to do. But I wonder how well this rental setup will work with things like the basic operating system. Basic, but crucial.
As an example, I use the Adobe Creative Suite a lot. But the version on my computer is old, as in Creative Suite 3. So I thought I'd give Creative Cloud a try. It was very nice. But even with my educational discount, it was going to be around 250 a year to rent it. A kilobuck over 4 years. And while Creative Cloud is very nice, the old CS3 suite is long since paid off. So I let it expire and CS3 is doing what I need to do.
The concept of pay forever, especially in critical software like Adobe CS or for Crissakes, an operating system - is like addiction. What happens if you miss a payment? Windows 10 going to bluescreen you, or hold all your files hostage until you pony up? Send some thugs over to convince you of the error of your ways?
My guess is that the subscription model will fail unless Microsoft manages to eliminate Apple and Linux, as well as make their office suite completely incompatible with all their other older operating systems, including the 1 time buy Windows 10.
And someone in here will bray about what an awesome move that is.
That's true. I use a vpn to help my privacy, but have no expectation that it would help me if i commited a serious crime. If you do, there's a good chance you'll be caught, thankfully.
Yup. Protecting your privacy on line is very sensible. I do what I can also. Where there can be confusion is the concept of of privacy, and anonymity. Some folks get a little confused, thinking that anonymity is privacy. and vice versa.
I'm not feeling the outrage.
I'm not even upset, let alone outraged.
I'm glad they caught the assole, who is both a criminal, and stupid.
That's not the reasoning. Some are surely trustworthy. The underlying problem is that you literally have no way to tell which ones those are.
The internet is not anonymous. Never has been, never will be unless the fundamental nature off it is changed, which will destroy the internet. The only thing that gives a person any sense of anonymity is the degree of the crime, and how badly they want to find you.
Some years before people realized that Sputnik would be a problem? What? The first and immediate fears caused by Sputnik to the US was that the USSR had superior technology.
Note that I wrote that some people knew what it meant, and most didin't.
Here's a bit from a really nice and in-depth history that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. the link is https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office..., but the whole history piece is excellent, give it a read.
"American response to the Russian triumph varied considerably, depending on its source. The alarm exhibited by large sections of the public did not materialize immediately. In New York City, on "Sputnik night," phone calls poured into the offices of the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History. Practically all were from people seeking more information than the Soviet bulletin to the American press had provided-mostly amateur astronomers and ham radio operators eager to get down to the happy business of trying to acquire and track the world's first man-made satellite. At central police headquarters, a spokesman at the big switchboard, the activity of which is regarded as an index to public anxiety, reported no inquiries whatsoever. On the following day a Newsweek correspondent in Boston wrote that the "general reaction here indicates massive indifference." From Denver another Newsweek writer wired his home office that there "is a vague feeling that we have stepped into a new era, but people aren't discussing it the way they are football and the Asiatic flu.""
and a little later....
"Most Americans were aware that Russia had created an atom bomb more quickly than American authorities had considered likely. They knew that Soviet work on the hydrogen bomb had kept pace with that of the United States. As recently as August 1957, the U.S.S.R. had claimed a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test. None of these facts, however, had registered deeply in this country. Nor had the occasional story in the press hinting at an upcoming space breakthrough by the Soviet Union."
I'll stick with the concept that it took some time to actually register with most people that Sputnik and the ability to put a rocket in space meant that they could do the same with bombs.
Just like it still hasn't registered with most people that the internet was not designed with privacy - indeed the opposite is true. Just a fact that no amount of wishful thinking can change. You can do some things to make it a little better, but it will never be secure. Anyhow, whether you agree with me or not, that history of Vanguard is just delicious reading. Here's the index page. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office...
So now we have closed groups, some of which I moderate
Do you do it for free, or do you get paid in Hot Pockets?
Conjugal visits from Sophia Vergara
Unless we get a hold on this stupidity, the next step will be calling for the death of the others.
It's basically already happening.
While that seems a little tongue in cheek, I'll accept it. I'll note that it calls for arrests, not killing deniers. Regardless, it is monumentally stupid. Just so we are completely fair and balanced balanced I'll give a link on the other end. http://www.danablankenhorn.com...
Or conservative touchstone and purveyor of truth Andrew Breitbart: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmo...
Avoid it? You're building the goddamn road to it!
Nope. Humanity has several groups of folks, and allowing those who allow their sociopathy and perversions to dominate because they are mistakenly assuming they are anonymous is a fine example of the tragedy of the commons. While these bits of human excrement are busy acting like the assholes they are, yet way too cowardly to act that way if they were to meet whoever it is they are messing with in person, the actual legitimate participants just go away. Then a group is left with nothing but the trolls and kooks, who lose interest because after ruining a group, they need their new fix.
My best example is the usenet groups. If I might use an example, the rec.radio.amateur.antenna group at one time had some world reknowned experts that you could learn from, and have a conversation with. It was priceless.
But after teh trolls and kooks came on board, some idiot that thinks antennas work by shooting off bits of themselves, and they guy who wants to go into great detail about how they want to fuck the expert's dead mother ended up chasing the experts away. They didn't need that sort of abuse, no matter how much you want to hand it out, AC.
So now we have closed groups, some of which I moderate, which simply don't put up with that. If the AC wants to be a necrophiliac, or believe that hurricanes are God's diarrhea, they can, just not on my watch.
That's why Slashdot's moderation system allows the AC to be as disgusting as they wish. They are not squelched. Unfortunately, in more tightly focused groups, we don't have time for that. Don't like it? Too bad.
Here on Slashdot, we get into the same thing here when they claim that mod points are censorship.
That's not what the word "censorship" means I would say. All posts are visible if you want to see them. If you don't want to see them, that's a preference. It's not censorship.
We see a lot of this these days, when people have a one way version of free speech, where they will say any old outrageous thing they want, then get much butthurt when people disagree with them.
Free speech does not mean that only the biggest asshole is allowed to talk, and everyone else is forced to listen. reading slashdot a level 2 and up is the only thing that makes it useable at times. But the people who have the severe psychosexual hangups about anal sex and intercourse with somoene's mother can still have their say.
And who wants to be interrupted by notifications about kooky end of the world/NASA moon landing hoax/perpetual motion/heat your house with 1 tea candle and a flowerpot/ bullshit except other kooks?
Yes, people who want to believe in them can still find them. I'm surprised no one has alleged that it must have been a reverse false flag. That Google wants you to believe a conspiracy by promoting, thus you shouldn't believe. Or that Google promoted it then removed it to encourage you believe so you shouldn't believe. "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."
Just give it time. Someone will. Conspiracy theorists that have conspiracy theories about other conspiracy theorists and on and on.
We are going through a transition time, as the internet has allowed stupid and loud people to have equal weight with reasoned and thinking people. Where kooks of all stripes, left and right leaning spout the most ridiculous things, and use each other's spouting to broadly paint everone they don't agree with as "the other". Unless we get a hold on this stupidity, the next step will be calling for the death of the others.
And if one doesn't agree, they will want them dead as well, because you are interfering with their free speech.
I find that most conspiracy theories not only have a lack of evidence but they also ignore lots of contrary evidence. Or they start to delve into increasing complex scenarios to try to explain away any contrary evidence.
Cherry picking the evidence. Conspiracy theories are full of that. You can see both of these in the moon landing hoaxer's arguments.
No, conspiracy theories lack evidence, period. There is no requirement that they are FALSE theories, since without evidence you have no way of knowing. You know, like it was before Snowden showed us how deep the rabbit hole went.
"The government is listening to everything!" was a conspiracy theory until that exact point - when we got the evidence. It wasn't false.
It did not take conspiracy minded folk to understand what any technology was capable of what. It dies not take a paranoid mind to understand that a system that is insecure in nature and by design, like the internet, is going to be of interest to authorities when stupid people think it is somehow secure. Snowden just gave details.
I suppose a good example of this inability of people to understand the implications of actions was Sputnik. Most Americans and the world were busy worried about national prestige, it took some years for them to understand that the satellites in orbit meant the capability of delivering warheads to your doorstep. Meanwhile people who understood the implications of actions knew.
And how is Google no longer promoting a video the same as them controlling free speech? You can still find the videos if you search for them. Google is no longer advertising them at the top of their list. If they blocked them, then you might have a point .
Here on Slashdot, we get into the same thing here when they claim that mod points are censorship.
And who wants to be interrupted by notifications about kooky end of the world/NASA moon landing hoax/perpetual motion/heat your house with 1 tea candle and a flowerpot/ bullshit except other kooks?
This is just an attempt to avoid the Tragedy of the Commons effect, where the lowest and least destroy the commons.
As well, I spend a lot of time on the mountain roads in Northern Pennsylvania. There are often clearings for gas lines that run alongside the dirt roads. Some people or groups have apparently been dropping milkweed seeds along these miles of clearing. This summer has seen a huge number of Monarch butterflies flitting about. Being a migratory critter that over time and generations heads to Mexico and back, Denver or other places might expect radar clouds of this species as well.
Final side note - I've been on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry between South New Jersey and Delaware, and you can see Monarchs flying across the bay on a 20 plus mile ride. I've seen them draft the ferry as well, which is a strange sight.
Well played. You had me going.
All in good fun of course. But on a serious note, I'm not terribly concerned about getting the utmost in fidelity from my iphone. Most of the places I might listen are going to have too much background noise. So Bluetooth or plugging in the iPhone headsets are okay by me.
The 1/8th inch phone jack also extends th ehigh and low end of any headphone, an dthe crispness efface due to the smaller spring metal used,
This sounds like the kind of stuff you read in the ads in high-end audiophile magazines, where people will sell you 000 gauge power cords for your power amps because the big wire has a lower impedance and allows the amp to reproduce low frequencies better. Or the company that was selling a gold plated digital-certified HDMI cables for, IIRC, $400, because it guaranteed error-free digital sound and video. Or deoxygenated copper cables, or any number of other snake oils.
Don't forget the gold plated fuses and special knobs. Indispensable for a distortion free listening experience!
Why those folk can't be bothered to learn the basic physics of audio reproduction is beyond me. That is fascinating all by itself., and little need for the mumbo jumbo like I wrote - and that sounds just like the bs they believe.
I stand corrected!
Its okay - the audiophile world has been turned upside down by the confirmation of the Higgs Boson, and we're all catching up. 8^)
1. Acting like audiophiles who choose a smartphone for the music experience
2. completely ignoring that with an iPhone you can have that same experience with those cheap earphones.
3. Acting like using an adapter is beyond the pale. even more tl;dr for ya - irrational arguments
The real problem with removing the 3.5mm jack is with headphone durability. If you use earbuds a lot chance are you wear them out at intervals. When you have a 3.5mm jack and you drop a bud in a glass of water, you say that sucks and go buy another cheap pair of buds.
I've listened to regular 3.5 mm plug phones on my iPhone 7. It isn't magic.
Mhmm. Right. One should think of the headphone jack as a simple electrical interface, rather than some sort of magical sound-transport medium.
Well there you are wrong. My audiophile friends and me have done the experiments, and the best sound possible is found when using the small headphone jacks. It lends a vibrancy and a sort of anti-listening fatigue to teh sound. The 1/8th inch phone jack also extends th ehigh and low end of any headphone, an dthe crispness efface due to the smaller spring metal used, can make a 5 dollar headphone bought at Big Lots sound much superior to a stutio headphone, sa a Beyerdynamic. Where after listening to test tones for a hundred straight hours had people tearing the phones off their heads and run screaming out of the room, while the 5 dollar Big Lot's phones and the exquisite 1/8th inch jack and plugs we had to turn off the test tones after two weeks because we were concerned about the wearers starving to death, and they sure didn't smell good by that time.
Audiophile approved as a critical component of anyone who isn't tone deaf.
Does it?
Yes.
The audio sounds fine.
I'm glad it's fine for you. For me, it's far from fine.
What is worse, Apple makes absolutely no way that person can use th obviously superior headphone with the 1/8th inch jack It's impossible! and never will be.
And before you start shitting your pants about the Dongle, that unuseable piece of equipment that probably destroys your phone - if for some reason you actually do need top tier headphones, well, those need a dongle too as an adapter. All my studio phones have the larger jacks on them. Yer talkin shite, and you just hate Apple, and are now getting trapped as the rest of the manufacturers abandon the poor and outdated technology that is the 1/8th inch hedphone jack.
Not going to buy a new set because Apple - or Google wants me to. Fuck them. I'd sooner switch cell phones. Eventually, the manufacturers will get the message.
Good, then you'll be happy. I've used plain old headphones with my iPhone 7.
But hey, it's good to see a man of your convictions, have you considered a feature phone?
The problem here isn't Kaspersky and Russian hackers, they're just being opportunistic.
The REAL problem here is a dumb @$$ contractor who stole classified information and brought it home.
Why isn't the contractor, both company and employee, being punished for breach of secure information? Any other countries' spooks would want this info, including our allies.
Ahh that's right, let's just take this as an opportunity to bash Russia some more while our real enemy China is cleaning out both our industrial trade and military secrets! /sarcasm
It is possible to have two problems at the same time. In fact, that usually how disasters happen. The contractor needs denutted for what he did. But that doesn't mean that software designd to compromise a person's computer is supposed to be applauded as Hey, Everone's doing it, so it's all good.
That isn't how the game works regardless of what you think. Contractor? At best a dumbass, at worst a leaker or actual spy. Kaspersky? Well everyone doing it or not, they were caught. And "Everyone does it" isn't a very good defense.