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0 pointshmate99y ago0 comments

I won't be buying the new iPhone but I thinks removing the headphone jack seems like an extremely small problem.

The main issue seems to be that you now can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that? In the past 5 years I have probably done that once.

For those of you who do think it is an inconvenience, I bet there will be a product on the market in 2 weeks that eliminates this problem.

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robotresearcher9y ago

> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that?

My two use cases that I expect are pretty common:

1. In the car, plugged in to charge since using GPS navigation drains the battery very fast, and car audio input is AUX only.

2. Phone on the nightstand, plugged to overnight charge and I go to sleep listening to podcasts or music on headphones to avoid disturbing my partner. I can dozily remove my headphones, but I can't switch cables without waking up.

I agree that there will be aftermarket products to solve it. Just makes the thing more expensive for me, so less likely to buy.

jbmorgado9y ago

> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that?

Lots of times. Me and anyone that takes medium to long trips in their cars and and uses GPS navigation while charging and listening to music like basically all people that use smartphone do.

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0 pointshmate99y ago0 comments

I won't be buying the new iPhone but I thinks removing the headphone jack seems like an extremely small problem.

The main issue seems to be that you now can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that? In the past 5 years I have probably done that once.

For those of you who do think it is an inconvenience, I bet there will be a product on the market in 2 weeks that eliminates this problem.

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robotresearcher9y ago

> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that?

My two use cases that I expect are pretty common:

1. In the car, plugged in to charge since using GPS navigation drains the battery very fast, and car audio input is AUX only.

I agree that there will be aftermarket products to solve it. Just makes the thing more expensive for me, so less likely to buy.

jbmorgado9y ago

> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that?

Lots of times. Me and anyone that takes medium to long trips in their cars and and uses GPS navigation while charging and listening to music like basically all people that use smartphone do.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse