<story><title>Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)</title><url>https://misfra.me/2017/12/12/apples-9-dollar-engineering-marvel-no-one-wants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>I have non-anecdotal evidence that people definitely buy the Lightning to headphone adapter. We sell them in our stores and it&amp;#x27;s one of our biggest accessory sales.&lt;p&gt;You know why people buy them all the time, though? Because, frankly, it&amp;#x27;s a terrible design. It&amp;#x27;s tiny, easy to lose or forget, and they break easily. &lt;i&gt;That&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; why it has such terrible reviews in the Apple store site--it&amp;#x27;s not a good product for what it is.&lt;p&gt;I deal with Apple products on the daily, and the removal of the headphone jack is still one of the things that irritates me most about Apple.&lt;p&gt;The others would be: the whole battery scandal where Apple slowed down older phones without explaining that the battery, a replaceable component, was the issue. And the 2016-2018 MacBook keyboards, which are an absolute travesty.&lt;p&gt;The headphone to Lightning adapter may be a &amp;quot;marvel of engineering&amp;quot;, but it was a completely unnecessary one. It doesn&amp;#x27;t create more room inside the phone, and Samsung had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks. It&amp;#x27;s basically designed to force you on to more expensive wireless headphones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>basch</author><text>Apple didnt &amp;quot;slow down phones with old batteries&amp;quot;, they capped the power output to the cpu of batteries that couldnt deliver reliable peak power anymore, so the phone didnt panic and crash as the cpu usage redlined.  Their actions are much preferred to the alternative.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (2017)</title><url>https://misfra.me/2017/12/12/apples-9-dollar-engineering-marvel-no-one-wants/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ericabiz</author><text>I have non-anecdotal evidence that people definitely buy the Lightning to headphone adapter. We sell them in our stores and it&amp;#x27;s one of our biggest accessory sales.&lt;p&gt;You know why people buy them all the time, though? Because, frankly, it&amp;#x27;s a terrible design. It&amp;#x27;s tiny, easy to lose or forget, and they break easily. &lt;i&gt;That&amp;#x27;s&lt;/i&gt; why it has such terrible reviews in the Apple store site--it&amp;#x27;s not a good product for what it is.&lt;p&gt;I deal with Apple products on the daily, and the removal of the headphone jack is still one of the things that irritates me most about Apple.&lt;p&gt;The others would be: the whole battery scandal where Apple slowed down older phones without explaining that the battery, a replaceable component, was the issue. And the 2016-2018 MacBook keyboards, which are an absolute travesty.&lt;p&gt;The headphone to Lightning adapter may be a &amp;quot;marvel of engineering&amp;quot;, but it was a completely unnecessary one. It doesn&amp;#x27;t create more room inside the phone, and Samsung had water-resistant phones with headphone jacks. It&amp;#x27;s basically designed to force you on to more expensive wireless headphones.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nacho2sweet</author><text>I lost 3 of them until my current ones have &amp;quot;lasted&amp;quot; a year. If I move the cord at certain angles, the phones voice control switches on, podcasts skip, pause, or run at 3x speed.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t mind the cord, I don&amp;#x27;t see why $200 shitty earpods that I have to charge every 5 hours and battery runs out after 1.5 years is better.</text></comment>