<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 The 3.5mm jack is obsolete and getting rid of it enables a better, tougher device which is more waterproof.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 The 3.5mm jack is obsolete and getting rid of it enables a better, tougher device which is more waterproof.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>steve19</author><text>Its not obselete when 100s of millions of people use it everyday and the replacement is expensive, needs replacing because the batteries die and has poorer sound quality.&lt;p&gt;No phone is more waterproof with it than without (they all have complex data ports with many connection vs three or four in a jack). No phone has a bigger battery. No phone is tougher.&lt;p&gt;It allows Apple and others to sell expensice Bluetooth ear buds.&lt;p&gt;And yes, I do own a pair of airpods.</text></comment>