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0 pointsmulmen9y ago0 comments

I hadn't thought about the Square with the loss of the headphone jack, that's an interesting change. Can the Square device be adapted to use the Lightning connection? Maybe Bluetooth?

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niftich9y ago

Bluetooth sure. It was already using modulated audio like a modem over the analog jack. You can pair using bluetooth and continue to speak audio, with maybe lowered bandwidth to robustly survive the subband codec -- the mandatory base codec.

But I don't know what kinds of OS-level permissions go into allowing apps to pair with bluetooth devices on iOS.

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0 pointsmulmen9y ago0 comments

I hadn't thought about the Square with the loss of the headphone jack, that's an interesting change. Can the Square device be adapted to use the Lightning connection? Maybe Bluetooth?

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niftich9y ago

But I don't know what kinds of OS-level permissions go into allowing apps to pair with bluetooth devices on iOS.

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