What an Epic hack! Though I think “hack” is an insufficient term once you involve a chip broker, flexible circuit design and CNC milling. And months and many, many $$$!
It’s cool that he can waste a ton of money and show us how this is done. I’d personally just buy a different brand with a phone jack if I really wanted one. The phone I’m looking at now doesn’t have a headphone jack, and I’m not worried since it comes with special earbuds and I already have Bluetooth earbuds and Bluetooth headphones.
@f00l Apple always gets rid of things too early in the game… I remember the floopy drive removal back with 99% of everything was still floppy disk… asshat behavior on their part since you then had to buy an external one to function. They may be first movers on some things, but they are way, way “too first”.
@RiotDemon He spent a considerable amount of money, but far less than any of us would trying to re-create that. He’s over in China, where parts are far cheaper and more readily available.
Also the practical experience gained from something like this is priceless- if he doesn’t already have a job he likes, this would go a long way to finding one.
@Kidsandliz Like you mean the cube that didn’t let you connect cables in a reasonably sane manner. Or the MacPro monitor that’s more pc components than monitor.
@Kidsandliz@f00l I used to have a Sony walkman phone many years ago that didn’t have a headphone jack. Came with proprietary headphones. A few other phones have done it, but I suppose so many people complain that they end up keeping it around.
@RiotDemon I’d argue it’s not a waste of money if his goal is in building an audience. Making absurd yet technically interesting videos is one way to do it.
Really wouldn’t be surprised if I’m paying him in a year for some converter/gadget he makes.
@f00l that was a little sharper than I was aiming for. I get exasperated, as “the future” seems suspiciously expensive, dependent on batteries with shelf lives, proprietary, and in the interests of the business models of a few companies.
Put differently, a company other than Apple wouldn’t have removed the headphone jack, and Apple didn’t need to. But now that they started that snowball rolling, I’m going to have to have stupid little Bluetooth dongles on all my headphones, or stupid external DACs on everything.
The absurd part is where people generally nod along and call it progress.
I would feel differently, I think, if Apple’s play for wireless headphones wasn’t proprietary, and if wireless connections in general weren’t very subject to interference.
I am – very probably – going to miss headphone jacks’ ubiquity for the rest of my life, or until I haven’t used one for a decade, whichever comes first. I was delighted by them while they were a thing, having tried to be mindful of the state of technology and my relationship to it. I don’t see that they are being replaced with anything that isn’t markedly worse.
I applaud his tenacity, but there’s dedication and then there’s stubbornness. Sometimes we become so vested in something that we’re no longer able to distinguish between the two.
That’s some dedication!
(Also, fuck you, Apple for omitting it in the first place!)
What an Epic hack! Though I think “hack” is an insufficient term once you involve a chip broker, flexible circuit design and CNC milling. And months and many, many $$$!
That’ll void your warranty right fast.
It was a lot easier and cheaper to just keep using my iPhone 6.
Oh, is the iphone7 still a thing?
@cranky1950 Considering that meh sold 30-pin docks a little while back, yes.
(Also, fuck you, Apple for your proprietary connectors!)
It’s not waterproof anymore.
@darkdragon Sure it is! Just stick your finger over the hole.
My cellphone oddly came this an exotic headphone jack…
It’s cool that he can waste a ton of money and show us how this is done. I’d personally just buy a different brand with a phone jack if I really wanted one. The phone I’m looking at now doesn’t have a headphone jack, and I’m not worried since it comes with special earbuds and I already have Bluetooth earbuds and Bluetooth headphones.
@RiotDemon
No jack is the way of the future, no doubt. But the lack still annoys me.
@f00l Apple always gets rid of things too early in the game… I remember the floopy drive removal back with 99% of everything was still floppy disk… asshat behavior on their part since you then had to buy an external one to function. They may be first movers on some things, but they are way, way “too first”.
@RiotDemon He spent a considerable amount of money, but far less than any of us would trying to re-create that. He’s over in China, where parts are far cheaper and more readily available.
Also the practical experience gained from something like this is priceless- if he doesn’t already have a job he likes, this would go a long way to finding one.
@Kidsandliz Like you mean the cube that didn’t let you connect cables in a reasonably sane manner. Or the MacPro monitor that’s more pc components than monitor.
@Kidsandliz @f00l I used to have a Sony walkman phone many years ago that didn’t have a headphone jack. Came with proprietary headphones. A few other phones have done it, but I suppose so many people complain that they end up keeping it around.
/image Sony walkman phone
@dashcloud my comment might of come off as sarcastic, but it was serious. I think it’s all neat. Plus he makes revenue off the video.
@RiotDemon I’d argue it’s not a waste of money if his goal is in building an audience. Making absurd yet technically interesting videos is one way to do it.
Really wouldn’t be surprised if I’m paying him in a year for some converter/gadget he makes.
@f00l just because Apple’s marketing department wants you to believe it doesn’t make it true.
@InnocuousFarmer
I am unaware of the content of Apple’s marketing.
Only of the hornets’ nests they stir up.
Not in love with them.
@RiotDemon
/image Samsung SGH-T519
Head phone jack was also the proprietary charging port
@f00l that was a little sharper than I was aiming for. I get exasperated, as “the future” seems suspiciously expensive, dependent on batteries with shelf lives, proprietary, and in the interests of the business models of a few companies.
Put differently, a company other than Apple wouldn’t have removed the headphone jack, and Apple didn’t need to. But now that they started that snowball rolling, I’m going to have to have stupid little Bluetooth dongles on all my headphones, or stupid external DACs on everything.
The absurd part is where people generally nod along and call it progress.
I would feel differently, I think, if Apple’s play for wireless headphones wasn’t proprietary, and if wireless connections in general weren’t very subject to interference.
I am – very probably – going to miss headphone jacks’ ubiquity for the rest of my life, or until I haven’t used one for a decade, whichever comes first. I was delighted by them while they were a thing, having tried to be mindful of the state of technology and my relationship to it. I don’t see that they are being replaced with anything that isn’t markedly worse.
I applaud his tenacity, but there’s dedication and then there’s stubbornness. Sometimes we become so vested in something that we’re no longer able to distinguish between the two.
KuoH
Is he using Eagle?