When W croaks I am going to straight fight these motherfuckers coming out of the woodwork talking about his “folksy humility” and how much he liked to jog or some shit.

*raises hand*

*holds up mirror*

I mean, yes I do have a computer at home and I think most people do have at least a laptop but even if not it’s a pretty disingenuous argument to act like a smart phone isn’t a “computer.”

Hey I don’t take any of this personally. This has actually been one of the more spirited Kinja conversations I’ve been a part of in a while.

Again, why is it Apple’s problems how you listen to the in flight entertainment on a plane? They never tried to sell you THE BEST HEADPHONES FOR AIRPLANES. They sold you a phone that’s supposed to be used with bluetooth headphones. And Jony Ive is 100% the supreme dictator of what technology APPLE wants to try and…

Huh?

In 20 years wireless charging could potentially make any thought of batteries in ANYTHING a moot point. You won’t even think about batteries anymore because they will constantly being charged by surfaces around you, not to mention that the storage capacities will be so large that even without a charging source you…

The entire smartphone industry has zillions of dollars of incentive to develop tech that would allow every human being in the world to be crammed into a giant ball all while listening to their phones through bluetooth headphones at the same time. I think they can get it done.

There was a time when it was inconceivable to anyone in the world that disease wasn’t caused by ghosts in your blood. I think science can tackle this one. It’s not exactly time travel.

Everyone in this entire thread is acting like removing the jack was a cynical ploy to sell AirBuds. They removed the jack for a reason. It took up a lot of space in the case. Space that they used for increased battery size and processors and camera elements. If it was just to sell AirBuds then the entire industry…

I don’t give a shit about Apple. There seem to be two lanes of this conversation going on in this thread. One is a conversation about the inconveniences of using 3.5mm headphones with new iPhones in 2018. The other is about the event that was Apple’s sudden removal of the jack in, what, 2015?

Sounds like your gripe is with the airlines for not having tech that is up to speed with your phone. Apple wants you to use bluetooth headphones with your phone. Full stop. They are unapologetic about it. They provided you with a temporary solution until you could adopt that technology, but now years have passed and…

The dongle is old technology. Apple doesn’t even supply them with phones anymore. What that means is that these phones are not designed to be used with 3.5mm corded headphones. They’re just not! If you want to use those headphones with this phone, it’s up to you to find a solution. That’s just what Apple is plainly…

Keep it plugged into your phone on those infrequent occasions. All I’m saying, people, is that this should not be such a difficult problem to solve. Also, you can buy bluetooth headphones from Amazon for under $20 and they will deliver to them to you TODAY. The dongle was always supposed to be a bridge. You have…

Um, pockets? Um, set it next to the phone? Um, on the end of the headphone cord? If you can’t come up with very simple solutions to this very simple problem you probably shouldn’t be handling any kind of technology.

Well, to repeat, the consumer benefit if we’re to believe Apple developers was improved screen quality and battery life, the latter of which is hands down the most requested feature with every iteration of phone. They took a gamble that people would get over it and it would seem that they were, by and large,…

Plenty!

There is already tech that is using magnetic fields to transmit data and audio instead of radio frequencies. Technology evolves. It encounters problems and it solves them. In 20 years no one will have corded headphones plugged into consumer tech. It will be like someone rocking a Walkman in 2018.

Um, the viable solution was a free dongle supplied with the phone and also bluetooth technology built into the phone. Those were the two VERY viable solutions they provided consumers with.