Ich finde, der fasst es am Ende treffend zusammen:
"The 3.5mm jack is robust, familiar, secure, well-documented, and so on — we’ve seen the argument play out over the last year. You know why it’s good: because it works reliably, worldwide, and with millions of devices. Without Apple’s permission.
See, it’s that last part that must bother them. The idea that someone, somewhere, is doing something with an iPhone that they haven’t anticipated, like
making a thermometer or payment system or 3D scanner. Someone who hasn’t paid for a license to attach that thing to their phone.
Apple is taking the first step to make sure that never happens. They’re able to do this because no one can do anything about it. They’re in a position of immense power and they’re using that power to eliminate something good and replace it with something that makes them money. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s a business plan."
Ähnliche Richtung auch das hier:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12838034/iphone-7-headphone-jack-airpods-rage
"Apple’s frenzied effort to
make everything wireless isn’t without its merits, and I firmly believe that we need big influential companies like it to push the tech industry forward. But this brazen shrugging off of one of the last remaining truly universal connectors is upsetting. Apple's replacing instant compatibility with all the world's headphones by offering us either a dongle, the same old EarPods with a new cable, or expensive EarPods with no cable at all.
Had Apple done something,
anything, to help improve sound quality for the masses — which upgraded Lightning EarPods would have been a step toward — then the loss of the headphone jack would have at least been partially justifiable.
Don't kill a good thing if you don't have a better one waiting, Apple. That's all I ask."