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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:32AM (4 children)
It was all just a ploy to allow Belkin, [sarcasm]that bastion of low cost cables[/sarcasm], to sell the fanboi's adapters containing about $2 worth of parts and plastic for a cool $34.95 each.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 03 2017, @02:36AM
Thank goodness for people with more money than sense!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PocketSizeSUn on Tuesday October 03 2017, @05:01AM
Nah ... the MFi chip [Made For iPhone] (Apple assurance that you only buy certified Apple products) is prolly about $5 on its own.
For every iOS update about 1/2 the effort is identifying and disabling peripheral hardware w/knock-off MFi chips...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:10PM (1 child)
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Once all the Apple fanboys buy these headphone jack adapters, Apple will:
Apple fanboys will cheer and rejoice at the news.
I plan to rush right out and buy one. It's on my TO DO list, right after I upgrade to Windows XP.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by quacking duck on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:12PM
The rest of your points have merit, but this particular criticism has never made sense.
Since the iPhone was released in 2007, and in fact since around 2003's 3rd generation iPod, Apple has changed their main mobile device connector exactly *once*, from the 30-pin to Lightning, and there were two very legitimate reasons for doing so: saving physical space and reversible connector.
In the same timeframe, the rest of the mobile world went through at least 2 or 3 major changes: various proprietary ports to USB mini, and then to USB micro, with a few phones even sporting USB3 micro-B, before USB Type C finally gave USB a reversible connector, two years after Lightning was introduced.