Samsung Hides Ads That Made Fun of Apple's Removal of Headphone Jack (androidauthority.com) 188
Samsung axed the headphone jack from its newest Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus smartphones, removing a key feature that the company mocked Apple for removing in its iPhones. Samsung declined to mention the fact at yesterday's Note 10 event, and now they are attempting to hide its past advertisements. Android Authority reports: Over the past few years, there have been multiple high-profile Samsung ads that heavily criticized Apple's iPhone design limitations, specifically towards the removal of the headphone jack and the notched display on the iPhone X and XS. These ads are no longer on Samsung's official United States YouTube channel and appear to be erased from other official sources as well. One of the more prominent series of ads -- known as "Ingenius" -- center on an actor portraying an Apple employee as he tries to convince skeptical smartphone buyers to buy an iPhone. The customers all seem confused as they want certain things from the phone that it simply can't do, including headphone jacks, microSD card slots, and notch-less displays.
Another prominent Samsung ad was called "Growing Up." The ad shows a young man going through various iterations of the iPhone over the years, getting increasingly frustrated with the limitations of each one. A memorable scene in the ad shows him using his iPhone with a giant dongle attached to it so he can use his wired headphones and charge the device at the same time. This ad also no longer appears on Samsung's official U.S. channel.
Another prominent Samsung ad was called "Growing Up." The ad shows a young man going through various iterations of the iPhone over the years, getting increasingly frustrated with the limitations of each one. A memorable scene in the ad shows him using his iPhone with a giant dongle attached to it so he can use his wired headphones and charge the device at the same time. This ad also no longer appears on Samsung's official U.S. channel.
Well, removing the jack was (and is) bloody stupid (Score:2, Interesting)
I guess they want people to buy a seperate DAP... No streaming revenue for music for you!
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I guess they want to stop selling phones.
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However it seems like Smart Phone Makers across the board are following Apples lead on it.
I am guessing that this really isn't as big of a deal as Slashdot make it out to be. (Big Surprise Huh!)
Overall I have been seeing more people with wireless earbuds, and headphones. If you are a super Audiophile then you really are not going to get superior quality out of your Cell Phone Music playing ability even with a solid gold 6.3 mm (1/4 inch) headphone jack. Unless you really want to hear how the digital compr
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I still have one that I keep charged (good for a month on standby) when I want to listen to the radio but don't want something as big as a smartphone.
Convenience. (Score:2)
Those headphone jacks, made over a half century ago, were designed to be plugged into equipment the size of large boxes.
And nowadays, are still useful to plug into equiement. e.g.: large speaker box.
Usually, you'd just plug the speaker box' cable on media player and be ready to play music.
Nowadays, you need to make sure that the speaker have bluetooth function (most people at home would need to rebuy bluetooth enabled speaker), or that you have a bunch of handy dongles for USB-C/lightning/etc. (company tend to need such in presentation rooms).
The removal of the headphone jack, makes room for more battery, which is what more people care about.
Compared to the volume occupied by the battery, or the volume of the whole phone (5
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However it seems like Smart Phone Makers across the board are following Apples lead on it.
I am guessing that this really isn't as big of a deal as Slashdot make it out to be. (Big Surprise Huh!)
Most of the folks I've argued about the subject just happened to not like iPhones either. So it was just some more hate for them to latch onto.
Overall I have been seeing more people with wireless earbuds, and headphones.
Yup, I've always thought of Bluetooth as simply more wireless. I didn't buy a smartphone to attach wires to it. As well, an early experience with an iPod, having buds caught on a branch and ripped out of my ears while on a run, turned me on to bluetooth early. As soon as I got a device that would handle it, I dropped wired buds.
If you are a super Audiophile then you really are not going to get superior quality out of your Cell Phone Music playing ability even with a solid gold 6.3 mm (1/4 inch) headphone jack.
Exactly. Even aside from the quality c
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Goodbye Samsung. And thanks for removing your past like the Taliban in Afghanistan, makes it even easier to look elsewhere. Asus and Lenovo have interesting alternatives with a Qualcomm 855, faster than the Exynos SoC from Samsung, and cheaper as well. Of course with a jack and stereo speakers for horizontal use (video, games).
Seriously, Random Slashdot users - I don't care if you want to use hardline made with deoxygenated copper wire, the outer conducter bening solid, and if your earbud diaphragms are made of bacterial mats grown on the ISS.
It's hard to be an audiophile when the smartphone is a turd you're trying to polish. Seriously now - stop pissing on people legs, and telling them that it is raining. All 100 of you Android audiophiles will change the smartphone world, or maybe not. GIGO Have fun - keep those gaddamned
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But you CAN get superior audio out of the headphone jack, objectively. Bluetooth is compressed and any android phone can play a variety of lossless formats with a variety of free apps. It isn't hard to tell the difference in quality, unless you have commoner headphones or some kind of neurological damage.
For really really insignificant amounts of superiority. Like the world's tallest midget.
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Headphone jacks became more important on cell phones when cell phones consumed our music playing devices (walkman->portable CD player->MP# player/iPod, etc). For me personally I still value the old 3.5mm jack,
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More like the size of one's hand. I've recently used a Sony Walkman, and that uses a headphone jack. Said device may be large, but most of that is to handle the audio cassette.
There may be a reason to remove the headphone jack, but being a very thick phone isn't one of the reasons.
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There is so much bs in your post that it makes one wonder if you're getting paid by either Apple or Samsung to say this.
When you're taking about headphones with 6mm plug, you're just setting up a stupid straw-man argument the NO ONE cares about. People don't want home-fi Sennheisers plugged into their iphone. The truth is that even 40 dollar Koss Porta Pros with a 3.5mm plug sound and work better than wireless cans that cost at least a 100 dollars more. Besides, they last for a long time, unlike most wirele
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I am guessing that this really isn't as big of a deal as Slashdot make it out to be.
It definitely is just as big of a deal.
Lots of people don't want to be dropping the sort of money that wireless headphones require. You can get a pair of wired ear buds for all of $5 at any corner store. I see people all the time relying on these cheap-ass headphones. I'm not sure what they do when they're no longer available. Just crank the speaker volume and add to the handful of assholes with no social awareness?
Lots of people don't want to have yet another device to recharge.
Personally, I use headphones
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Do they really sell 29 million Note style phones? Also, assuming they make even $100 on every phone, they lose $100 on every user who doesn't buy the new phone or buys a phone from a different manufacturer because they failed to include a $1 piece of hardware. Also, I don't think that a headphone jack even costs a dollar for a company the size of Samsung, buying in huge quantities like they do.
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I'm happy they are finally removing the jack. I wish they would remove the S-Pen too, or just make an S10+ which is just as big as the Note 10+ but without the S-Pen. Every unnecessary physical feature takes up room which could be used for a larger battery.
Why remove the headphone jack? (Score:5, Interesting)
I really don't understand why, especially on an enormous phone like the Note and Note Plus, there is any need to remove the headphone jack?
There is a huge amount of space...
Extremely thin headphone jacks are available...
In the past they recognized that consumers wanted this feature...
Why now have they changed their minds?
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To save some space and money probably. Even though the jack is relatively small, it would still take up some of the interior volume.
THAT SAID, I agree - as an owner of a Note 9, I thought I made a conscious decision to get a huge phone that has the space for a stylus, a large screen, a headphone jack and pretty nice speakers. And I think most people who get a phone like that think similarly, so the decision to keep it on the S10 but ditch it here, especially after making fun of Apple, is really bizarre.
Over
Re:Why remove the headphone jack? (Score:5, Insightful)
This has nothing to do with space or water ingress protection, it is just them pushing the consumers to buy more expensive gear and increase their margins and sales volume.
I think it is a mistake, in my view this will end up biting them (not only samsung, but the others too) in the ass because phones are already good enough to be kept for several years and, with lack of new actual features and removal of some existing ones, will only make people keep their phone for even longer.
Re:Why remove the headphone jack? (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't think that Samsung buyers will necessarily go for Samsung earbuds. Apple is a fashion company, Samsung isn't, no matter how hard they try.
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Yes, like with cars.
Funny comparison since Samsung didn't acquire AKG, but rather acquired their parent company Harman partially for ... wait for it ... their car business. Samsung was competing with Carplay, not with crappy bluetooth headphones when they made their purchase.
I said partially because there was was another reason to acquire Harman and that was because of their blueto... psyche, no it was for Harman Kardon and their soundbar business which Samsung needed to compete with Sony and Philips in the living room.
At the
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I think it is a mistake, in my view this will end up biting them (not only samsung, but the others too) in the ass because phones are already good enough to be kept for several years and, with lack of new actual features and removal of some existing ones, will only make people keep their phone for even longer.
Slashdot user claiming that the smartphone market is dead because heaphone jacks. U pissed off about unleaded gas bro?
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You can sell wireless headphones without removing the jack though.
Not as many though.
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Nice phones. Except they are all huge. Do they make anything that's closer to 5"? Do they support LineageOS?
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I've heard of that Umidigi F1. It came up in a discussion about removable batteries, I think.
Does it have a user-removeable battery?
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But I don't know the alternative to "the market" in this instance.
Probably because there isn't a strong need for an alternative. If the need was strong, you wouldn't think government intervention is an absurd overreaction. The market not giving every customer exactly the options they want is not some huge problem. I want a 7.8" Note 10++ which would only be about a centimeter bigger on height and width so it could still fit in my pocket, but no such product exists (tablets don't count for a number of reasons). I would also prefer a phone with a slight bulge in the back to
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In North America, I'm not really sure if the "market" really applies to smartphones as far as lining up consumer wishes with phone makers' offerings. Most smartphones are picked from a small selection of phones offered by the cell company, the cost hidden from the user by paying it off over time through their monthly bill. The phones are "free." End users are pretty much going to take what is offered to them, despite all the many compromises. I think this is an example of where consumers don't really p
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I don't understand why phone makers will refuse to add 2mm to the width of a phone, ensuring they can fit a battery in that lasts more than a day either. But they do it.
They do it because batteries cost money, and they've figured out the exact battery life that the market will bear, and they design to it. Then they claim that they're doing it to make the phone thinner, but in reality they're doing it to make the phone cheaper, and thinner is just a [marketing] bonus.
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Any feature that takes up space crowds out other features. Headphone port makes features like water resistance more difficult
But more importantly, they're looking forward. People who will pay a premium for the highest end phones are going to have wireless audio. And audiophiles who can hear the blueteeth chewing their music will use a dongle.
Samsung will probably keep a headphone jack on their low end phones for down market customers.
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. People who will pay a premium for the highest end phones are going to have wireless audio. And audiophiles who can hear the blueteeth chewing their music will use a dongle.
Audiophile and smartphone listening kinda don't go together very well. Point taken overall though.
A decent set of BT buds is plenty enough quality for what a phone puts out.
I guess the phonejack faithful will be reduced to getting those 5 dollar wired sets from Big Lots soon.
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I really don't understand why, especially on an enormous phone like the Note and Note Plus, there is any need to remove the headphone jack?
There is a huge amount of space... Extremely thin headphone jacks are available... In the past they recognized that consumers wanted this feature...
Why now have they changed their minds?
1. Think in three dimensions. If you have to have a headphone jack, You have around an inch ingress into the body of the phone. So you are losing an in that might be taken up by battery, making for longer charge life. The batteries are generally rectangular in shape, and the manufacturers want to stuff as much battery into a phone as possible.
2. It turns out that the people going batshit crazy about the headphone jack are the same ones going nuts about replaceable batteries Loud beyond their numbers.
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Because they feel like they're the only sane people who realize it's a huge regression? But strangely ignoring that compared to PCs, Android is already a huge regression to Windows 3 days? Who knows!? :P
Seriously though, it sucks to be the one person in the room realizing it's marketing BS to convince people that cheaped-out hardware is 'better'.
It's even worse to understand that Smartphone audiophiles think they are the smartest people in the room.
I don't care if you refuse to buy a phone unless it has the only thing that makes a smartphone worth having - the stereo jack. Different people have different demands. Some people might not buy a smartphone because it doesn't have vacuum tubes.
But you display a lot more gravitas by just saying "That jack is what I had before, and I hate change."
Because the phone is not a high fidelity device, the
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I really don't understand why
Corporations are at war with the analog whole.
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It's simple. Removing the headphone jack will save the company a few pennies. This change will add up to a few million dollars over the production run of the device. Then the top executives will laugh their way to the bank in order to cash their fat bonuses while the average consumer is going to swallow that an extremely useful and popular port was removed.
Hide? (Score:2)
Who'd leave up an ad making fun of something you now do?
First they mock you... (Score:4, Interesting)
First they mock you...
Then they copy you...
Perhaps tim cook was right, it takes courage to be the first and become the object of all that mockery, but sooner or later everyone else will catch up.
Most people still are mocking (Score:2)
Unfortunately in the marketing echo chamber of these companies they don't realise it and/or don't care anyway. And I'd love to see the results - if they even bothered - of the focus group when they were asked if getting rid of the headphone socket was a good idea.
But it doesn't matter, there are enough fanboys of both systems to lap up the brainwashing BS about how removing functionality is a Good Thing for the companies to continue doing it.
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And I'd love to see the results - if they even bothered - of the focus group when they were asked if getting rid of the headphone socket was a good idea.
They haven't bothered.
They know Average Joe people would eat up anything they throw at them, so they just went with the change.
A couple days ago, on another website, I commented that the removal of the headphone jack is a no-buy from me as far as Note 10 is involved, and someone said "you can buy the Sony WF-1000XM3 headphones" - those cost more than a good Android phone together with stock wired headphones. Ridiculous. The point is people in general are just sheep, they don't think, they just go with the h
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"The point is people in general are just sheep, they don't think, they just go with the hype and consume, consume, consume"
So sad but so true.
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I commented that the removal of the headphone jack is a no-buy from me as far as Note 10 is involved, and someone said "you can buy the Sony WF-1000XM3 headphones" - those cost more than a good Android phone together with stock wired headphones.
They gave you a brand and model number suggestion when you complained about no headphone jack? That person is thinking, and what they are thinking is "I just made five cents with my pro-Sony forum post"
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5 cents they made, 5 cents Sony lost.
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It was the courage to piss off their customers. Literally no-one thinks "this phone is better because it doesn't have a headphone jack!"
All Apple did was prove that people are willing to put up with that kind of customer-hostile crap.
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Exactly, Apple proved that people will put up with it and now everyone else will follow suit...
Then again, i had a phone with a headphone jack for many years, but i can't recall having used it. Infact, the headphone jack was mostly just filled with dust and dirt due to lack of use.
I've had bluetooth headsets since the days of the nokia 6310i, my car has handsfree bluetooth etc.
And it's not like Apple did away with the ability to connect wired headphones entirely, you can still get a dongle that connects to
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Some car stereos (like mine) have ipod connectors, so you need an adapter to use a current iphone and cannot use an android device at all. I keep the adapter in the car.
Most car stereos built today support bluetooth for audio input.
Current model iphones support wireless charging, so you absolutely can charge and use wired headphones at the same time. You can also use a different dongle which splits and allows 2 cables to be connected at once.
Of all the people i know who have iphones, only one of them uses a
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First they mock you... Then they copy you...
Perhaps tim cook was right, it takes courage to be the first and become the object of all that mockery, but sooner or later everyone else will catch up.
He wasn't wrong. Now a lot of us have been going wireless for some time before the act of bravery.
But eliminating the technically poor, case invading unreliable headphone jack was going to be fodder for the Ford versus Chevy set of Apple haters, many of who had amplified hate because Apple. Well, that was a bloody battle, but it is pretty well won now.
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Perhaps tim cook was right, it takes courage to be the first and become the object of all that mockery, but sooner or later everyone else will catch up.
Catch up to what? A race to the bottom? The iPhone was rightly mocked and is rightly mocked for not having a headphone jack at a time where pretty much every set of headphones had a cable. Likewise the silly idea of shipping a device with no USB-A connectors is also mock worthy.
Samsung has precisely 1 product without a headphone jack, and that product is not their flagship phone. Tim Cook deserved his mocking. He deserves to be mocked still, and so far very few companies are "copying" his brain dead decisio
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No jack, no sale (Score:2)
Certainly made life easier than having to wade through reviews.
The cheaper the phone... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The cheaper the phone... (Score:4, Insightful)
... the more likely it is to have a headphone jack. I can only assume that the jack is disappearing from expensive phones because they know people dumb enough to buy a flagship handset is dumb enough to stump for a pair of bluetooth headphones.
Alternatively, they know that people wealthy enough to spend money on a high-end phone are willing to shell out for the convenience of not having to deal with wires.
Personally, I stopped using wired headphones long before my headphone jack went away. For me, a headphone jack would just be a lint catcher. It would never be used.
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"Reasons" (Score:3)
You know what reasons [gsmarena.com] they gave as an excuse for removing a headphone jack? To get bigger batteries and to improve the haptic engine. I wonder why it never occurred to them that they could have made the phones 1-2 mm thicker.
And using a USB port that often will surely means it will die faster which is ultimately good for their bottom line.
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They made the back out of glass. The bit you never look at but need to have a good grip on. The bit you immediately cover up with something that does provide decent grip.
At this point the iPhone is like high heeled shoes. Impractical and uncomfortable, but people buy them for the looks and then add accessories to mitigate the self-inflicted pain.
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They made the back out of glass. The bit you never look at but need to have a good grip on. The bit you immediately cover up with something that does provide decent grip.
Lots of phones do this though. I had a Nexus 4 which had a glass back, and now I have a Moto X4 which also has a glass back. I bought the Nexus 4 with a chip in it already, used, for $200 back when they were still regularly going for $300. I put a soft TPU case (and a glass screen protector) on my X4 immediately, so it's still pretty even though I've already dropped it several times. I assume they're using glass now because it's stronger than plastic, but permits radio signals better than metal. It's more l
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They can keep the headphone jack and wireless
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They had glass backs well before they had wireless charging.
You can charge wireless through may materials, even metallic ones.
The glass back existed for one reason - to increase the odds of a huge shatter when the device was dropped, in the hopes that people buy another device.
Irony abounds (Score:2, Insightful)
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An interesting viewpoint. Is it your opinion that people should not have their own thoughts, but merely consume whatever is offered to them, whether they like it or not?
No, it is my opinion that they are making a 1:1 scale Olympus Mons replica out of a mole hill.
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If you don't fire back about things you don't like, they'll keep happening. Moreover, most of the posts I've read are along the lines of "this is a bad idea, this is dumb, I'm not going to buy phones with this in it," etc. That's not really an overreaction in my opinion.
Sure, do that, send Apple and Samsung strongly worded e-mails, boycott their products over the death of the 3,5 mm headphone jack, just please don't stage epic drama queen performances over this because they are intensely cringeworthy to witness.
Old Tech != Obsolete tech (Score:2)
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I've just read through the first two thirds of the comments, and the majority just call Apple and Samsung, or their customers, or both, stupid or evil.
Sounds a bit like a church actually.
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Sounds a bit like a church actually.
It's not a church, it's a cult. It's not a religion until the people who were originally in on the scam are dead. Jobs may be gone, but since the scam is the same as any other business, it will have to stay a cult and not a religion until it goes out of business someday. Or until society collapses, I guess.
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They still are a stunt (Score:3)
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In the AMD64 case it was better. Twice as many general purpose registers and twice the size as well.
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They doubled the register count too. A flat 64-bit architecture isn't just about speed, it's about cleaning up the architecture to remove hacks that are no longer necessary. This will help correctness in the future.
There are diminishing returns, but 16-bit was way better than 8-bit, and 32 was great for a decade. Finally 64 can be done affordably and there are few theoretical use cases for moving on to 128. All but the cheapest microcontrollers will wind up at 64-bit as the industry matures.
Re:They still are a stunt (Score:5, Informative)
The primary benefit of switching to 64-bit is flat memory addressing beyond 4 GB. The speed benefits are minor [iinuu.eu], mostly limited to floating point operations (rarely used on mobile) and character operations (encryption, compression). If you look closely at the benchmarks, you'll find the main speedup of the 64-bit processors isn't due to their 64-bit-ness, but because of the addition of new functions in hardware. If they'd added those new hardware functions to a 32-bit processor, you would've seen the same speedup.
No, the major speedup is not 64 bit code vs. 32 bit code. It's the fact that Apple removed 32 bit capability _completely_ from their ARM chips, which means the more complicated conditional operations are removed which were on the critical path for performance, which means the clock rate could be increased. If you have a chip that does _only_ 64 bit then it can run at a higher clock speed than another chip that does 64 bit _and_ 32 bit code. (It also helps that there is only one set of shared libraries for iOS loaded into RAM, not both 32 bit and 64 bit versions).
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If they'd added those new hardware functions to a 32-bit processor, you would've seen the same speedup.
No, you wouldn't, because those functions would take the same number of cycles to complete, but they would process half as many bits at a time. Just moving from 32 to 64 bit provides a substantial performance improvement when shoveling data, which has become an ever-larger part of the CPU's job since we're dealing with ever-larger data sets. Phones have HD displays, so we use high quality media to justify them, even though we have small displays where we don't need high resolutions to meet our perceptual ab
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That might be true for architectures like SPARC or PowerPC where the 64-bit version is just like the 32-bit version with bigger registers. It's not true for x86 where 64-bit mode doubles the number of general-purpose registers, makes the instruction set more orthogonal, and adds PC-relative addressing. It's also not true for ARM where 64-bit mode doubles the number of general-purpose registers, gets rid of the implicit barrel shift and predicates, gets rid of instructions that affect some but not all cond
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A few of the Android devices have moved up to 6 GB
You're 2 years out of date.
2 and 3 GB is budget.
4 GB is low end.
6 GB is middle end.
8 GB is high end.
12 GB and up is flagship.
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Batteries too (Score:2)
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Bluetooth! (Score:2)
I've not been using a headphone jack for a decade! - Let that century-old tech die in peace.
Bluetooth works just fine and lets you avoid both the scratching noise and audio channel fallout when the jack gets worn, and the noise when the cord rubs against your clothing.
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What reason is there for the headphone jack to have to die?
It doesn't have to die. OTOH, I would prefer not to spend money on or allocate phone real-estate for a feature I'll never use.
The great thing about Android is that there's an enormous variety of devices out there. If you want a headphone jack, buy one with a headphone jack.
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Then buy the third-party splitter with charging and 3.5 mm miniplug receptacles. Belkin makes one for Lightning
28% of the reviews on that adapter are the lowest possible rating, that certainly doesn't inspire confidence. I bought a 3rd party lightning to 1/8" adapter when my company bought me an iPhone with no headphone jack. It works for about 30 seconds then the phone tells me the accessory is "unsupported". There's no technical reason why it shouldn't work, it doesn't work because I didn't give money to Apple. Several of the reviews of the Belkin adapter that you linked report the same problem. So now I have
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Headphone jack lack - greatest frustration (Score:2)
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Just use the corded headphones? You know, the ones it came with?
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Apple's switch to Intel was even more "fun" (Score:3, Interesting)
I remember when Apple was switching to Intel, they had both PowerPC based Macs and Intel based ones available for sale, so for a while they had two different sections on their website, one devoted on showing how much faster PowerPC is from x86, the other showing how much faster the new Intel Macs are.
So, the PowerPC advertising site was comparing against Pentium 4, mainly by using benchmarks that were using AltiVec for the Macs, but not even compiled with SSE on the (rubbish) Pentium 4s.
The Intel Mac advertising site was showing how much faster the new Macs were compared to the PowerPC ones in various (some might say carefully chosen) tests.
It was surreal and funny.
Of course, no AMD Athlon 64 comparisons were ever made, as that was the actual fastest x86 CPU of the era and yet Apple would not use it.
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How the landscape would have changed if Apple had of used AMD instead of Intel. The boost of credibility which would have caused other big companies buy from them. But even if others didn't just having the extra sales to Apple all of this time would have been a stabilizing force to the Athlon. And faster Macs too.
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To be fair, Netburst was a disaster and Apple mocked that. The Core line out of Intel Israel (basically evolved Pentium III) saved the company and Apple waited for those.
The problem is the just removed it (Score:2)
The problem is the just removed it, they didn't replace it with something better. They removed functionality, and that's why everybody is annoyed.
If the headphone jack does indeed take up too much space, or make it difficult to waterproof and dustproof the phone, then maybe they need a better solution that still doesn't leave us without a dedicated port for headphones.
One solution would be a second USB C port, which would be a welcome addition as you could plug in headphones with a dongle, and allow you to
Just bought a Pixel 3a (Score:2)
No thanks (Score:2)
My current phone might be the last Samsung I own if they push this to their entire lineup.
Capitalism sucks (Score:2)
I'll say it again... (Score:2)
Removing the headphone jack accomplishes 2 things. The first is readily pointed out by everyone, which is to sell more expensive bluetooth gear. But the 2nd everyone keeps overlooking. Once you are saddled with a digital audio interface rather than analog, manufacturers can take the next step, implementing DRM. They did it with HDMI, they'll eventually try to do it with this. Then the next phase of sales begin... not just any bluetooth device can pair and play the music, no! It will be only blessed de
Par for the course (Score:2)
A few years back Samsung mocked Apple for removing support for Flash on their handheld devices. And then not long after Samsung did the same.
Come to think of it, the same thing happened with removable SD cards.