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Apple and Belkin's $35 Dongle Brings 3.5mm Headphone Port Back to the iPhone

posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @10:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the Only-$10-per-millimeter! dept.

takyon writes:

There's a new dongle in Apple land:

Apple ditched the headphone jack on the iPhone with the iPhone 7. The company's latest and greatest iPhones, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the iPhone X also don't have the headphone jack. The only way of listening to music on Apple's newest iPhones is to use a wireless headphone or use the lightning connector on the phone. But if you are charging your phone and want to listen to music with your wired headphones on the iPhone at the same time, that's obviously not possible.

Apple already sells a $39 dongle that lets you charge your phone and listen to music via a lightning connector at the same time, and it's now selling a new dongle that'll let you use a 3.5mm headphone jack instead. The Verge reports that Belkin has released a new version of its Rockstar adapter for the iPhone which lets you charge your phone via a lightning connector and listen to music via a 3.5mm headphone jack at the same time for $34.95.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:37AM (5 children)

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:37AM (#576329) Journal

    But this time, the Devil's not in the details, but rather the elephant in the room: The iPhone is a closed-proprietary privacy-removing device that prevents your installing free software via aggressive DRM. It's a non-starter on multiple fronts, by deliberate policy and design, for anyone concerned about these issues, and I'd expect to find more people concerned here than in the general public.

    But all the cool kids have em. Don't you want to be cool like those trendy people in the Apple ads? Don't you want to exude confidence and style every time you leave your upper east side apartment with your air buds, idrone and non-white GF that you'll never marry cause she isn't white, but you still get the "I fucked a minority, see how progressive I am" cred? Don't you want to appear worldly and cultured? I mean, obviously they make lots of money and get laid a lot because of that idevice. God.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:55AM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @12:55AM (#576339)

    Dang! I thought they were happy because they drink beer and drive overpowered pickup trucks, while not completely shaving with 5 blades, dying their hair, using some deodorant, and taking a pill for the ED...
    Thanks for saving me some effort! The iDevice is a lot easier to park than the pickup, I hate beer, and I was failing at ED.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:28PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:28PM (#576568) Journal

      Glad to be of service!

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:53PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:53PM (#576611) Journal

    Don't you want to be cool like those trendy people in the Apple ads?

    How do you know what's in Apple ads? You're not actually watching ads, are you?

    --
    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:51PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @03:51PM (#576625)

    and non-white GF that you'll never marry cause she isn't white, but you still get the "I fucked a minority, see how progressive I am" cred?

    WTF is this shit?

    In my experience, the wealthy urban white women (i.e., the ones who drive BMWs) are the ones who love iPhones the most. And in surveys, women are the ones who are most discriminatory against non-iPhone owners.

    • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:08PM

      by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @04:08PM (#576639) Journal

      If they drive BMW's then yes, you're in trouble if you don't have deep pockets or idrones. But most girls I've dated, regardless of race, didn't give a fuck because they didn't come from snobbish assholes.