Apple wants to eliminate the standard headphone jack on iPhones. Not being an Apple user, my first reaction was "don't care". It's just an extension of Apple's longtime philosophy of going proprietary in every way, e.g. the fact that you need a special charging cable that third parties are not allowed to manufacture except under Apple license.
 
But even if it doesn't affect me, I have to chuckle at the company's propaganda efforts to justify it. Of course, they're getting enthusiastic buy-in from headphone manufacturers, who see dollar signs in forced-obsolescence.
 
Sennheiser had this to say: "in the audio world we've seen different connection standards come and go for many years".
 
Excuse me? What connection standards would those be? The quarter-inch plug and jack date back to the 1800's, starting with telephone exchanges with manual operators. The 3.5mm version has been around since the late 50's, with the advent of the transistor radio. The XLR connector goes back to 1950, the RCA phono plug to the early 40's. So WTF is Sennheiser talking about?

bitflipper
So WTF is Sennheiser talking about?

..... hmmmm ... they aren't! They are just making sure they kiss up to Apple, and show how stupid advertising is, and how much people don't know about ANY history of ANYTHING, to even be able to make a decent call, or figure out the comment is so out of it, as to almost be malicious!
 
It used to be called ... what was that when you had news that intentionally sent you the other direction? Misinformation and the like. But even the government does it!
 
Nobody reads these things anymore and no one takes these words and people to task anymore ... if they did, half these companies would be dead, because no one would be stupid enough to help them with a nickel! But advertising makes it seem right and good, and we're too dumb ... to fight it. Or too desensitized! Take your choice!

Great!!  Just what I needed to hear.
 
 
How am I going to connect my Bluetooth headphones now???

Further guaranteeing I am unlikely the EVER buy a Mac unless I all of a sudden start sh*tting golden turds.
 
Idiots.
 
Edit: But if this only affects iPhones... well that's not quite as obnoxious/nonsensical. Just stupid and greedy. If I ever wanted some ridiculous phone/computer/pocket stalker device I'd probably go with one of the many other options for half the price.

Beepster
Further guaranteeing I am unlikely the EVER buy a Mac unless I all of a sudden start sh*tting golden turds.
 
Idiots.

I have never spent a nickel on a Mac of any kind. I did win, from my job, a small 8 Gig iPod, but I did not like the iTunes interference on my computers and network, and 6 months later I gave it away to my neighbor!
 
But both Apple and Microsoft need a serious major loss ... like 20% of their business ... so the media will jump on them ... what happened ... and the bad stuff will come out until the cancer is weened out!
 
And worse ... the media kissing on that SJ special and movie is sick! Totally sick!
 

Moshkito

bitflipper
So WTF is Sennheiser talking about?

 
Nobody reads these things anymore and no one takes these words and people to task anymore ... if they did, half these companies would be dead, because no one would be stupid enough to help them with a nickel! But advertising makes it seem right and good, and we're too dumb ... to fight it. Or too desensitized! Take your choice!

hmmm...apparently someone does.  Bit?  

iDon'tCare.

Apple has definitely gone downhill since Jobs died. I've been using iPhones for a good few years now and they have always been rock solid for me until the last year. The 2 most recent major iOS updates have made my relativey new phone more sluggish and less responsive, and they also introduced some horrible bugs related to text selection/copy/paste which make working with text a frustrating nightmare. No sign of them correcting or even acknowledging the bugs.

If they really do go with this connector change I think I will jump ship. As an audio enthusiast there is no way I am going to have a limited range of compatible headphones imposed on me, and using an unwieldy adaptor with my favorite headphones is not an option.

Moshkito

Beepster
Further guaranteeing I am unlikely the EVER buy a Mac unless I all of a sudden start sh*tting golden turds.
 
Idiots.

I have never spent a nickel on a Mac of any kind. I did win, from my job, a small 8 Gig iPod, but I did not like the iTunes interference on my computers and network, and 6 months later I gave it away to my neighbor!
 
But both Apple and Microsoft need a serious major loss ... like 20% of their business ... so the media will jump on them ... what happened ... and the bad stuff will come out until the cancer is weened out!
 
And worse ... the media kissing on that SJ special and movie is sick! Totally sick!
 

I think they make good stuff but their philosophy of "MAC ALL THE THINGS!!!" is obnoxious in it's cultiness and their stuff is prohibitively overpriced.
 
It's same reason I would never go out of my way to set up a Pro Tools rig. I'm sure it's a Jim dandy of a DAW when you got all the googaws and bobbles to go with it but by that point I'd be setting the bloody thing on fire to keep warm in my cardboard box.
 
And why the heck would I go to that level of insanity when there are perfectly good (if not much better) alternatives out there that aren't proprietary, bank busting, froo froo setups that INSIST on themselves.
 
It just makes no sense.

iPhones have reached the point of feature saturation. In order to entice you to buy more of them they have resorted to planned obsolescence and feature honing. Right now their big advancements seem to focus on the reduction of size and weight. To make the phones thinner and lighter they have to get rid of external connectors like the 3.5 mm jack.
 
Too bad they don't focus as hard on lowering the price and improving the life expectancy of their products.