Will Apple give me a free adapter with the new iPhone? The new features of the phones can best be seen in Apple’s comparison chart which is interesting from the perspective of how much is the same between the 6S and the 7. The headphone jack is century-old technology – why not get rid of it the same way Apple killed the CD drive and Ethernet port on laptops?
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“The reason to move on [is] courage”, said Apple’s Phil Schiller in revealing the change. “It makes no sense to tether ourselves with cables to our mobile devices”, he said during the company’s annual fall product event.
Sales of the iPhone dropped two quarters in a row this year, the first declines in the history of the device.
While the technology behind AirPods is clearly good, my big concern is that the small gadgets could be easily lost.
“While the camera improvements for the iPhone 7 Plus are nice, they are incremental for most and the lack of headphone jacks could offset that for others”, he said.
There’s no headphone jack: You read that right. So a bump in the likely low popularity of Lightning headphones is a win for Apple, since it’s getting a cut no matter who sells them. It can be used in swimming pools or even the ocean.
The new smartphones come with Apple seeking to reverse declines in sales of the iPhone in an increasingly saturated global market, and boost its Apple Watch. “I think Apple has a real victor here”. Under Cook, Apple has spent years carefully curating an “ecosystem” in which one product gradually pushes consumers into buying another.
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As a long-time user of Apple’s iPhone headphones, I thought the AirPods felt comfortable in my ears, although I did wonder whether they could be dislodged during strenuous activity, such as running. He believes Apple’s iPhone sales could decline by 5 percent during the next year.
“The more iPhones Apple sells, the larger the addressable audience for accessories such as Apple Watch Series 2”.
Apple sold almost 92 million iPhones during the first six months of this year, or about 15 percent fewer than the same period last year. Industry analysts say the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, which Apple introduced last fall, didn’t offer many compelling new features over the previous year’s models. Storage memory now starts at 32GB, and goes up to 256GB for the first time.
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The design is a bit different as the lines have given way to solid colour, among them a matte-finish solid black and glossy jet black versions. The new version of Bluetooth that will be released soon should make things ever better. Along with the dongle, they’re offering new earphones – called EarPods – in the box with their iPhones.
