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

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, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:10PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 03 2017, @01:10PM (#576563) Journal

    I find your lack of faith disturbing.

    Once all the Apple fanboys buy these headphone jack adapters, Apple will:

    • change the connector on the phone
    • announce that this bold move demonstrates true courage
    • have some song and dance about how superior the new connector is
    • announce that there is a new compatible dongle available for only $39.95 to connect your headphones

    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

    by quacking duck (1395) on Tuesday October 03 2017, @09:12PM (#576780)

    change the connector on the phone

    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.