Re: did this group die?

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:

Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

On 11/2/2024 1:27 PM, Tom Elam wrote:
 
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But Android owners upgrade phones more often than iPhone owners.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-official-android-phone-
owners-upgrade-more-often-than-iphone-users/ar-AA1seZ2t?
ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=acd4d3617ea848eb984eda2761425876&ei=28
 
Explain that

 
Here are some reasons that I can postulate:
 
1. Android device makers tend to introduce new features at a more rapid
pace than Apple does for the iPhone. Apple meters out new features
slowly to encourage updates but many of those features are not
sufficiently attractive to warrant an upgrade.
 
2. Apple removes features from their devices causing many iPhone owners
to delay upgrades because they don't want to lose features.
a)What are the best selling iPhones of all time? The 6/6+ and
6s/6s+, the last two models that had a headphone jack.

 
The SE (1st gen) was the last model launched with a headphone jack. Plus
was significantly cheaper than either the 6 or 6s. So why didn't it have
the highest sales figures?
 

For those too behind the times to use Bluetooth headphones there are these
Lightning adaptors that provide ancient headphone jack capacity. With
Bluetooth I can walk around the house untethered to my phone. Progress.

 
There are downsides to bluetooth. 1) you have to remember to charge them,
2) the bluetooth can be unreliable, 3) sounds quality is worse, 4) most are
disposable as battery replacement is unviable.
 
I have a perpetual problem where I'll be happily listening to my phone at
home, but then my wife pulls into the drive in the car and then my phone
automatically connects to the car. Why isn't there a way to prioritise
devices?
 
In five years I'm on my third pair of BT earpods. In the flip side, I still
have wired headphones that are decades old which work perfectly well.
Progress?
 

I have higher quality headphones not “pods”. And they hold a charge for
quite a time. Not being tethered is progress as is not using an auxillary
cable in my car. Bluetooth has been reliable for me and sound quality ok.
Again one can use an adaptor cable for the jack into headphones

Thereby losing the ability to charge the phone at the same time as
listening to something.

or aux in a
car or into RCA adaptors for a home entertainment center. I’ve done the
latter, playing my phone through a cable into a home system. The loss of a
headphone specific hole in the phone is a non-issue seized upon by local
miscreants for their trolling agenda.

Although I agree the issue is overblown the usual crowd, I disagree it's a
non-issue.

If it's so unimportant why do all macs still have a headphone jack?