<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>This decision was promptly copied by every other major phone manufacturer, for the same reasons Apple made the decision. The 3.5mm jack is obsolete and getting rid of it enables a better, tougher device which is more waterproof.</text></item><item><author>PunksATawnyFill</author><text>How about decisions like removing the headphone jacks from the company&amp;#x27;s most popular music players, the very devices with which people are supposed consume the media-centric services that Tim Cook and analysts say are the future of Apple?&lt;p&gt;For Apple&amp;#x27;s and consumers&amp;#x27; sake, I hope NOT.</text></item><item><author>valine</author><text>With the iPhone X Apple put serious R&amp;amp;D into a display that folds back on itself for the sole reason that a phone is more ascetically pleasing when the boarders are symmetrical. Even after a year and a half every phone except the iPhone has an asymmetrical chin. Will Apple still be able to make decisions like that without Ive in a leadership position? For Apple&amp;#x27;s sake I really hope so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kllrnohj</author><text>The largest non-Apple player in the industry, Samsung, continues to ship flagship phones with a 3.5mm jack and with waterproofing that has been consistently ahead of the iPhone. Samsung Galaxy has been IP68 since the S7 in 2016. Something the iPhone didn&amp;#x27;t achieve until the XS &amp;amp; XS Max.&lt;p&gt;The idea that this was about waterproofing is a fabrication.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jony Ive to form independent design company with Apple as client</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/jony-ive-to-form-independent-design-company-with-apple-as-client/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bud</author><text>This decision was promptly copied by every other major phone manufacturer, for the same reasons Apple made the decision. The 3.5mm jack is obsolete and getting rid of it enables a better, tougher device which is more waterproof.</text></item><item><author>PunksATawnyFill</author><text>How about decisions like removing the headphone jacks from the company&amp;#x27;s most popular music players, the very devices with which people are supposed consume the media-centric services that Tim Cook and analysts say are the future of Apple?&lt;p&gt;For Apple&amp;#x27;s and consumers&amp;#x27; sake, I hope NOT.</text></item><item><author>valine</author><text>With the iPhone X Apple put serious R&amp;amp;D into a display that folds back on itself for the sole reason that a phone is more ascetically pleasing when the boarders are symmetrical. Even after a year and a half every phone except the iPhone has an asymmetrical chin. Will Apple still be able to make decisions like that without Ive in a leadership position? For Apple&amp;#x27;s sake I really hope so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeadsUpHigh</author><text>It blows my mind how people call things obsolete without replacing all of their functionality. The only reason the 3.5mm jack is considered obsolete is because Apple said so. Literally nobody had any problem with it existing up until the day Apple announced that iphone. If this isn&amp;#x27;t the definition of sheeple then I don&amp;#x27;t know what it is.</text></comment>