I HATE APPLE

I have not had such problems but that sounds hellish

My phone has to be coerced into charging now.

Is your slot full of fluff? Both my lightning slot and headphone jack get totally filled with lint which stops em working

Me too. I used a toothpick to gently get that stuff out of there.

this long-running issue means it's impossible for me to back up my ipad via itunes. disconnects every single time, and there's no way to fix it. i won't use icloud backup because (a) i don't trust it and (b) i'm not paying for a backup service that doesn't even do a full backup.

last time i contacted apple about a software issue they called me ~20 times to request more information and never fixed the problem anyway. it's like they have the best intentions but are just crap at building this stuff.

http://www.stereogum.com/1893065/no-control-thoughts-on-the-end-of-the-headphone-jack-and-the-future-of-digital-music/franchises/but-whos-buying/

Great article.

The DRM stuff doesn't really scare me (if they offer a lightning-to-HP jack adapter, then the analog hole is still there), I'm more concerned about latency for music production apps.

And I don't want to have to use some stupid dongle or be forced to buy stupid Beats headphones or whatever. Plus, how do you charge the phone while using audio output? Yet another dongle, I assume. Boo.

imo if they offer adapters one will be a wireless Bluetooth receiver. I have one that works great already, only complaints are apple's current lack of support for higher quality audio streaming codecs and a relatively low battery life. And it's far from new! The one I have is a Sony Ericsson model from when that brand existed, and it's also a FM radio receiver

what is interesting is that minidisc-style headphones with "sl" length cords, meant to be used with an inline remote, are pretty relevant again

Bluetooth adapter could have a similar form factor to one of the iPod shuffles, come with a clip and such. Charge via lightning, just leave it dangling from your headphones. Sounds almost appealing that way.

otm, I would love that. maybe the music app could even have a pre-streaming function, you could wander away from the phone for a bit and it'd work until you came back

I could become the douche listening to headphones at the urinal

RIP Techserve

aw man. I remember that melted Mac. it used to have a little sign taped to it that said "Another successful Tekserve data recovery!"

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Fuck a 7

Can't believe I misspelled Tekserve. I blame autocorrect.

This is the strongest pull I've felt to date toward switching away from the iPhone. In a few days I'll be able to upgrade and I'm considering not waiting for the 7 and moving to an android phone.

will skip the numeral update for the first time since iphone 3g - I think i can still get two more years from the iphone 6
OTOH i really need to get a new iPad - is it worth waiting for an update or have they basically given up perfecting the regular ipad?

afaik the Air 2 or w/e is still pretty good, not sure if the mini needs a refresh. no idea how they're going to brand these suckers going forward

I'm probably going to upgrade just to get the better camera and try and outrun this touch disease thing.

Mini 4 is my favourite iPad yet

Air 2 works well without a lot of lag, but I won't be upgrading the iOS past 9...

really? iOS 10 is as fast or faster on an iPhone 6 (A8 processor, Air 2 has the faster A8X) than 9 and imo the small improvements are pretty good

errr wait a sec, I'm thinking of a different device, I haven't used 10 on that iPhone yet

going to temporarily hold off on that endorsement

I'm still struggling along with a 4 (not even S), was going to go push the button on a 7 but if they drop the headphone socket it's so long, suckers.

they will for sure but i assume you'll still be able to buy a 6S and maybe a 5SE for the next year or so.

I'm on 5c and i hope it will last a very long time because it's the only iphone that I like at this point.

Xp Yeah i thought of that but it's just delaying the inevitable, also it won't give me the required illusory feeling of having righteously stuck it to The Man. I was wrong about my current model btw it is a 4S, still struggles with most modern (aka stupidly complicated and ad heavy) websites and crashes a lot. Also zing won't let me post anymore.

This is the strongest pull I've felt to date toward switching away from the iPhone. In a few days I'll be able to upgrade and I'm considering not waiting for the 7 and moving to an android phone.

i'm jumping for the first time ever. the nexus 6p and oneplus 3 are cheap and apparently excellent, and there's a new nexus pixel series due out in a few weeks.

the ios-android divide isn't the gulf it once was, and with dumb shit like copy & paste still not working properly and siri being as useless as ever, i don't want to lose a small fortune just to go through it all again for another 2–3 years. lack of headphone jack would only be icing on the cake at this point.

which of the android phone makers actually updates system software for the longest, patching bugs and security updates and the like? feel like that's a talking point but not sure if there are a lot of offenders

I actually lost my shit with Siri the other day and told (him) to fuck off. Acting crazy.

i would consider the nexus if i didn't hate google so much (typing this on google chrome btw)

which of the android phone makers actually updates system software for the longest, patching bugs and security updates and the like? feel like that's a talking point but not sure if there are a lot of offenders

the nexus line has been best with currency of android version and security updates afaik, but as far as total support time per manufacturer goes i honestly don't know. 2–3 years seems to be a good run for android update support, but after apple trashed my ipad 3 with ios 9 i'd prefer a device to work properly than have device-breaking updates foisted on it (my nexus 7 2013 with marshmallow still runs like a dream and will never see nougat).

in fact my ipad 3 experience did more to turn me off apple than any headphone jack shenanigans.

i really hope apple doesn't remove the headphone jack

that would be such a dud

Have seen two MS Surface Pro adverts now with people doing mundane things on their expensive MS tablets and both pointedly say "I couldn't do that on my Mac". I am curious as to what they couldn't do because they look like they are just doodling.

yes the cinema ad with the theatrical set designer jackass omg

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jeremy dickson ‏@jeremydickson4 7h7 hours ago
@fraserspeirs saw my daughter doing that yesterday. I immediately had a conversation with her about it. At 11 maybe there's still hope.

can we meme spiers headshot? his is the true apple user face

that's not actually a thing is it

Not loving the new home button

I didn't realize you didn't have to close out apps!

Whenever you read anything about preserving battery life, someone will offer the tip to turn off Background App refresh, which allows open apps to continue to suck power from your battery. The solution then would seem to just knock out every app after you're done using it, right?

You even have Mac users on official support.mac forums saying the same thing with no one disputing them. Lord knows the thing you hear with desktop computers is "you've got too many software programs running at once."

So it all seems to have alluded to closing out apps when you're done with them, and Apple hasn't really gone out of its way to correct anyone.

iirc closing apps isn't a silver bullet in ios. it's good if an app is misbehaving and needs a flush, but generally it doesn't improve phone performance or battery life. ios is pretty good at power management.

you see a lot of ex-android users feverishly closing all their iphone apps, and coming from android you couldn't blame them tbh

Ha, I went Apple -> Android, and I'm all "see? now why didn't my iPad have a 'task manager'?"

it's critical in android in my experience