Woz doesn't want Apple to remove headphone jack for iPhone
Technically Incorrect: Speaking in Australia, the
Apple co-founder says he's not fond of
Bluetooth at all.
So many are worried about the jack hitting the road.
It's becoming a very serious issue.
If iPhone removes the headphone from the new iPhone
some say it will be called iPhone 7 --
then what will the world do?
Now Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has lent a mouth, as well as
an ear, to the debate.
As the Australian Financial Review reports, Woz isn't positively moved
by the idea of no perfect hole in which to plug in his headphones.
"If it's missing the 3.5mm earphone jack, that's going to tick off a lot of
people," Woz told the Review.
One of those people seems to be Woz himself. He's not a fan of
Bluetooth and his headphones have custom-made ear implants.
He can even sleep on them. Sadly, they only have the one kind of jack.
"I have cars where you can plug in the music, or go through Bluetooth,
and Bluetooth just sounds so flat for the same music," he said.
When convenience and excellence clash, the latter is rarely the winner.
He admitted that if Apple insisted customers now have to buy an adapter
to connect their headphones to whatever hole is left on the new iPhone,
he'd do that.
That sounds like a nuisance to me. Have you seen the dongles for the last
MacBook?
Woz seemed perturbed, but said that Apple is "good at moving toward the
future."
Yes, but it doesn't necessarily move quickly. It often waits for others to mess
things up a little (or not), before deciding whether the future is a good idea.
