The lightning port is not going to replace USB. All of the external technology busses are are in the process of converging on the USB-C connector, which will support DP, Thunderbolt 3, and USB 3.1 communications.
Of course which of those any given port will actually support will be guesswork. Hint: the USB-C port on your Android phone will never ever run Thunderbolt, and very likely not DisplayPort. But it will be able to run your headphones, because that phone will also lack a headphone jack.
You do know that MFi allows for 100 mA draw from the Lightning port, don't you? Most - probably more than 99% - of those Lightning headphones will NOT have batteries, they'll pull power from your phone to run THEIR circuitry to do the D/A and amplification - most of which STILL has to exist inside the iPhone because it still has speakers internally. That's what happens now with the few Lightning-equipped headphones on the market - the iDevice provides power to run everything.
So the headphones if using the maximum allowed power draw will drain the 1715mAh battery of an iPhone 6s in only 17 hours. While being able to pierce not just your eardrums, but also those of the people around you - or produce enough heat to melt them.
my $1700 PC laptop, the one I actually work on, the one that absolutely destroys my 2014 MBP despite being a 3mo older model, lives on my desk most of the time,
That's because it weighs a ton, and still only has a battery life of an hour. And it runs Windows, which is why you use a MBP to write this.
It is the oldest existing electrical standard in use.
I'm sure there were standards for how to harness a horse to a carriage, but cars seem to still have dropped them, despite the fact that they still could be useful.
NO ONE outside of 1 Infinite Loop that ISN'T under heavy NDA really knows what, if anything, Apple is doing with the 3.5 mm jack. We will all know in September, when the new iPhones traditionally come out.
Case in point: the exact same thing had been reported for the iPhone 6 2 years ago. Clearly somebody knew something nobody at Apple knew about. The only thing that came true out of that report were Lightning headphones.
So instead of buying a $40 adapter, you think people should buy a new pair of $800 headphones ("Audeze EL-8 Titanium Closed-Back") as suggested by the click-bait reference you provided?
So your only complaint is that your old headphones you paid $1000 20 years ago will have to be replaced finally? if you don't buy an adapter for your Android phone, the only ones so far actually dropping the headphone jack?
However, just for curiosity I read "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson and was blown away.
I hadn't enjoyed a book that much in a long time, and I mainly read non-fiction.
There is much that is wrong with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, but its treatment of software is the most profound of the book’s flaws. Isaacson doesn’t merely neglect or underemphasize Jobs’s passion for software and design, but he flat-out paints the opposite picture.
Isaacson makes it seem as though Jobs was almost solely interested in hardware, and even there, only in what the hardware looked like. Superficial aesthetics.
[How Isaacson doesn't understand what "Antennagate" was about, and gets the technical details completely wrong because of his "looks above everything else" theory]
Isaacson, it seems clear, mistrusted Jobs. That’s good. But rather than using that mistrust to push back, to ask insightful questions, he instead simply turned to others....
Again, skepticism is good. But rather than do the research to verify Jobs’s version of events, to learn the facts so as to be able to dispute Jobs himself, he simply turned to sources he did trust, like Hertzfeld and Gates. But Gates is an odd choice to trust, because he clearly has a conflict of interest. His company competed against Jobs’s, and at a personal level, he is Jobs’s only rival in terms of historical stature in the industry.
...
You could learn more about Steve Jobs’s work by reading Rob Walker’s 2003 New York Times Magazine piece than by reading Isaacson’s book, but even then we’re left wanting for the stories behind any of Apple’s products after the iPod. Isaacson’s book may well be the defining resource for Jobs’s personal life — his childhood, youth, eccentricities, cruelty, temper, and emotional outbursts. But as regards Jobs’s work, Isaacson leaves the reader profoundly and tragically misinformed.
Isaacson gives us the story of an asshole. But the world is full of assholes. What we need is the story of the one man who spearheaded so many remarkable products and who built an amazing and unique company.
Tip 3 and probably tip 5 would help in basketball finals. Of course having to hear Musk go through the list would make you fall asleep in the 5 minutes it takes...
And people complain about Tim Cook's oratory skills.
Its not the money. Apple is sticking with their history. Trying to play "what would Steve do?".
Yeah, would Steve remove the headphone jack from the iPod? The iPhone? No? Then what are we talking about here exactly? Apple doing what they always have done: to remove the headphone jack from devices without anybody noticing?
No, if Boeing had put an inflight screen in, and that screen had "one click buy duty free" button on it, is it then OK for Amazon to demand ALL the sales from every Boeing 747 since they were made? Simply because one component of one component violated Bezos one click patent?
It's a patent scam
So your point that Samsung only had sales worth $400 million?
Perhaps a minor blip up on the overall long-term slide in marketshare?
Seriously - do you have ANY data, any data at all, that points to iOS maintaining or growing marketshare? Any at all? If not - then I am right and you are wrong. End of discussion.
Well, if you have any data that doesn't ignore the larger picture, feel free to post it.
I worked at Apple when they were tossing around ZFS as an option. I still for the lif eof me can not figure out why they cling to HFS+. That filesystem has eaten more data than any filesystem I can think of. Shameful how they drag that out.
Maybe because ZFS is now owned by Oracle? You know, the company that sued Google over their use of Java APIs in Android?
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That may be precisely the problem here... (at least for Apple)
Errm, wouldn't it be easier for them to just use their patented 3.5 mm headphone plug instead of ditching it? https://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/1736235/apple-patents-cutting-35mm-jack-in-half - coming to you in the soon to be released iPhone 4s with 100% certainty.
The lightning port is not going to replace USB. All of the external technology busses are are in the process of converging on the USB-C connector, which will support DP, Thunderbolt 3, and USB 3.1 communications.
Of course which of those any given port will actually support will be guesswork. Hint: the USB-C port on your Android phone will never ever run Thunderbolt, and very likely not DisplayPort. But it will be able to run your headphones, because that phone will also lack a headphone jack.
You do know that MFi allows for 100 mA draw from the Lightning port, don't you? Most - probably more than 99% - of those Lightning headphones will NOT have batteries, they'll pull power from your phone to run THEIR circuitry to do the D/A and amplification - most of which STILL has to exist inside the iPhone because it still has speakers internally. That's what happens now with the few Lightning-equipped headphones on the market - the iDevice provides power to run everything.
So the headphones if using the maximum allowed power draw will drain the 1715mAh battery of an iPhone 6s in only 17 hours. While being able to pierce not just your eardrums, but also those of the people around you - or produce enough heat to melt them.
my $1700 PC laptop, the one I actually work on, the one that absolutely destroys my 2014 MBP despite being a 3mo older model, lives on my desk most of the time,
That's because it weighs a ton, and still only has a battery life of an hour. And it runs Windows, which is why you use a MBP to write this.
Looks like I'm gonna be limited to the iPhone SE when I finally upgrade off my 5.
Or any of the gazillion Android phones which will still have a headphone jack.
Well, buy fast before there aren't any left. Buy a couple so you have some spare. Do it now before USB-C becomes standard on Android.
Wow, on Slashdot even gibberish gets upvoted if it seems to be anti-Apple.
Hey, they spent $2 billion on Beats. They have to force people to use it somehow.
Yeah, because Beats aren't selling like hot cakes already.
It is the oldest existing electrical standard in use.
I'm sure there were standards for how to harness a horse to a carriage, but cars seem to still have dropped them, despite the fact that they still could be useful.
NO ONE outside of 1 Infinite Loop that ISN'T under heavy NDA really knows what, if anything, Apple is doing with the 3.5 mm jack. We will all know in September, when the new iPhones traditionally come out.
Case in point: the exact same thing had been reported for the iPhone 6 2 years ago. Clearly somebody knew something nobody at Apple knew about. The only thing that came true out of that report were Lightning headphones.
If Apple gets away with this, everyone else will follow.
Actually, it seems that only Apple has ever been able to get away with this.
http://www.androidauthority.com/first-phones-without-headphone-port-run-android-687910/ - isn't it odd that a 2 year old rumor that failed to happen on 2 generations of iPhones (3 if you count the SE) still has you so riled up, while you actually manage to ignore reality of it actually happening.
Yet another reason not to buy apple products
If Apple gets away with this, everyone else will follow.
You mean if Motorola gets away with this. http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-z-doesnt-have-headphone-jack
Predicted Fandroid answer: Apple is again latte to the party.
So instead of buying a $40 adapter, you think people should buy a new pair of $800 headphones ("Audeze EL-8 Titanium Closed-Back") as suggested by the click-bait reference you provided?
So your only complaint is that your old headphones you paid $1000 20 years ago will have to be replaced finally? if you don't buy an adapter for your Android phone, the only ones so far actually dropping the headphone jack?
I'm not quite sure why you are so fucking angry.
They've managed to find a way to force you into buying all new audio equipment, or at the very least, an expensive dongle.
So far, only Android manufacturers have actually done that. Congratulations, you are one of the chosen many.
However, just for curiosity I read "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson and was blown away. I hadn't enjoyed a book that much in a long time, and I mainly read non-fiction.
So you read "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, which is quite flawed, and thus fiction. http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
There is much that is wrong with Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, but its treatment of software is the most profound of the book’s flaws. Isaacson doesn’t merely neglect or underemphasize Jobs’s passion for software and design, but he flat-out paints the opposite picture.
Isaacson makes it seem as though Jobs was almost solely interested in hardware, and even there, only in what the hardware looked like. Superficial aesthetics.
[How Isaacson doesn't understand what "Antennagate" was about, and gets the technical details completely wrong because of his "looks above everything else" theory]
Isaacson, it seems clear, mistrusted Jobs. That’s good. But rather than using that mistrust to push back, to ask insightful questions, he instead simply turned to others. ...
Again, skepticism is good. But rather than do the research to verify Jobs’s version of events, to learn the facts so as to be able to dispute Jobs himself, he simply turned to sources he did trust, like Hertzfeld and Gates. But Gates is an odd choice to trust, because he clearly has a conflict of interest. His company competed against Jobs’s, and at a personal level, he is Jobs’s only rival in terms of historical stature in the industry.
...
You could learn more about Steve Jobs’s work by reading Rob Walker’s 2003 New York Times Magazine piece than by reading Isaacson’s book, but even then we’re left wanting for the stories behind any of Apple’s products after the iPod. Isaacson’s book may well be the defining resource for Jobs’s personal life — his childhood, youth, eccentricities, cruelty, temper, and emotional outbursts. But as regards Jobs’s work, Isaacson leaves the reader profoundly and tragically misinformed.
Isaacson gives us the story of an asshole. But the world is full of assholes. What we need is the story of the one man who spearheaded so many remarkable products and who built an amazing and unique company.
I wasn't born in this country
Is that your excuse for not even reading the first sentence of the summary?
LeBron should have used an Elon Musk speech.
Get with the times LeBron!
Sure: http://www.simplethingcalledlife.com/2015/elon-musk-usc-success-speech/
Tip 3 and probably tip 5 would help in basketball finals. Of course having to hear Musk go through the list would make you fall asleep in the 5 minutes it takes...
And people complain about Tim Cook's oratory skills.
Can you imagine the number of times the phrase "I'll buy it anyway" is thought by their mindless customers?
Considering it's the Android phones without headphone jacks selling like hot cakes - who's mindless?
Its not the money. Apple is sticking with their history. Trying to play "what would Steve do?".
Yeah, would Steve remove the headphone jack from the iPod? The iPhone? No? Then what are we talking about here exactly? Apple doing what they always have done: to remove the headphone jack from devices without anybody noticing?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/06/05/apple-to-abandon-headphone-jack-suddenly-beats-deal-makes-sense/#66bb3a3e6433 - and even back then they at first claimed this was a done deal.
if that is too difficult for a user to do frankly they belong on the short bus, and should have 24/7 supervision
Hey, now you are being mean towards Android users.
No, if Boeing had put an inflight screen in, and that screen had "one click buy duty free" button on it, is it then OK for Amazon to demand ALL the sales from every Boeing 747 since they were made? Simply because one component of one component violated Bezos one click patent?
It's a patent scam
So your point that Samsung only had sales worth $400 million?
Perhaps a minor blip up on the overall long-term slide in marketshare?
Seriously - do you have ANY data, any data at all, that points to iOS maintaining or growing marketshare? Any at all? If not - then I am right and you are wrong. End of discussion.
Well, if you have any data that doesn't ignore the larger picture, feel free to post it.
Come on, put your money where your mouth is.
I worked at Apple when they were tossing around ZFS as an option. I still for the lif eof me can not figure out why they cling to HFS+. That filesystem has eaten more data than any filesystem I can think of. Shameful how they drag that out.
Maybe because ZFS is now owned by Oracle? You know, the company that sued Google over their use of Java APIs in Android?
Why drop systems with 32bit efi? they can run 64 bit windows and with boot loader hacks 64 bit mac os.
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26734.html - short answer: because it's a bloody dumb idea not to drop it.