kontextmaschine:

argumate:

I never expected this headphone jack issue would be the hill to die on, but Apple has so many easier targets that it boggles the mind that this is what gets people so irate.

No problem with saying you like the old headphone jack and would prefer to keep it, but sheesh it’s not a conspiracy folks, sometimes the straightforward answer is the correct answer.

You don’t even need to switch to Android, there are other iPhone models on the market for the foreseeable future, and if no one buys an iPhone 7 then perhaps the beloved jack will return for the iPhone 8.

(They even added better speakers if you’re so desperate to listen to music while charging your damn phone!)

“Telephone company in market-dominant position suppresses cheap a/o third-party accessories in service of business model” isn’t an absurd subject for consumer resistance, that’s the exact story behind mid-century America’s most celebrated pro-consumer bit of regulation, the FCC’s 1968 Carterphone decision.

Two things, looking back on this:

- Haha, this reads like a parody of a kontextmaschine post, almost more than that time I parodied myself. A one sentence paragraph starting off with a phrase itself composed of noun phrases with no single nouns until the next level down, a negated adjective (“isn’t absurd”), and then obscure but relevant American history.

- When weighing the ominousness of the situation remember 2 years ago Apple paid $3 billion from its extraterritorial dragon’s horde for the leading headphone maker and no one could really offer a good explanation why.