Re: Why do iPhones currently lack even the most basic hardware functionality?
Alan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2022-04-22 10:57 a.m., Andy Burnelli wrote: > nospam wrote: > >> and it ain't just apple. many android phones do not have an analog >> 3.5mm jack, including the first android phone in 2008, which used a >> proprietary ext-usb port. > > You can feel _brave_ that your iPhone lacks basic hardware functionality. > > But most Android phones made in the past five years come with this industry > standard 3.5mm jack for very good reasons, nospam. > <https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3?nYearMin=2017&chk35mm=selected&sAvailabilities=1&sOSes=2> > > > And no, it's not because they're "courageous", which is how Apple described > their removal of basic hardware functionality (which is Apple's strategy). The basic functionality that matters is "can listen to audio through devices placed in or over the ears"... ...and that functionality remains.