Nah, it should be like the audio jack, you plug in the headphomes with no proprietary bullshit…Apple is locking poor people out of this easy method by being dicks about lightning connec tors. Im glad EU forces them to USB-c but Apple will probably lock devices out on this also
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drspod@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.
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True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.
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I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.
He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can’t afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?
Fuck this guy.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
The iPhone 15 has been out for over half a year now and people still spread this FUD. The iPhone 15 does nothing special with its USB C port.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Also I mention apple locks poor people out of headphones and you reply IPhone 15 is out. You realize many people can not afford a brand new iphone just because it came out?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Every iPhone has been expensive on release. As time goes on more and more people get newer and newer phones. And what was new and expensive becomes cheap and available.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yet… have you tried a non apple USB headset to see if it works? Just becauae you have USB doesn’t neccessaeily mean kernel allows all devices. But even if it works to placate EU now have you noticed that all giant companies start out with something that is OK, then later alter the deal, once you are trapped.
kinttach@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Any USB-C headphones work.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I have tried the Google earbuds, they work, even in the terrible condition that they’re in after 5+ years of rough use
invertedspear@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Does he want to take a budget option away? At one point he says “And they still charge $12” to me that says that’s close to what proper wired earbuds should cost. People are getting screwed buying something that should have higher sound quality and getting the cheapest Bluetooth quality instead.
drspod@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
He was in the airport, remember. Not in a local market.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Not only an airport, but elsewhere would likely not have been able to negotiate to same prices as a local. Sticker price is almost always the foreigner price, at least when it’s matching or higher than the price one would pay back home.
I’m almost certain I’ve seen $5 “lightning” headphones here in the midwestern US.
invertedspear@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Sure, but I have no idea what prices to expect in Chile, airport or otherwise. Just trying to extract some info by the author’s choice of wording.
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
The guy is having a funny geeky bitch. He is laughing at himself. He doesn’t expect Apple to change anything.
Maybe the humour just doesn’t work unless the reader is a geek too.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Idk…seems like the average apple user to me.
Trillion dollar company Apple is right and can do no wrong.
It’s all those other people who need to do better.
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular phones require three wires while charging only requires two. Ingenious really.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it’s not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren’t.
But they will connect to every bluetooth device.