Everything Wrong With Apple AirPods
NRM: "Unless you've been living under a rock, Apple launched their AirPods… Turns out there's a lot wrong with them!
Some may liken this to the removal of the floppy drive from the iMac – which was a great decision at the time, because floppy drives are slow and unreliable, but there’s nothing wrong with the 3.5mm jack that we all know and love.
It’s reliable, compact and compatible. The prevailing belief seems to be that the headphone jack has been removed to make the iPhone thinner; the iPhone 7 is the same thickness as the iPhone 6S, at 7.1mm. What’s more, the BLU Vivo Air LTE is only 5.1mm thick and still has a 3.5mm jack.
This leads us to the unsurprising conclusion that Apple have removed the headphone jack to make more money.
The default headphones that come with the iPhone 7 are lightning EarPods, which is all very well and good, and also a rather inconvenient lightning to 3.5mm adapter. Apple are intending to take advantage of this artificially created inconvenience with their new wireless AirPods."
