pippin wrote: > Conspiracies. > Apple arte the ones who forced the industry to give up with DRM, why > should they promote it now? > Plus: people these days are not in the music (streaming) business to > make money with it, which is part of the problems we are seeing but also > means things like DRM are irrelevant. > > Now that even die-hard fanboys are critical of Apple because of the > headphone jack I have to defend them. > > Doing away with the outdated and expensive analog audio chain is long > overdue and this move, which will make digital audio transfer more > attractive for a few hundred million people will help with that. > > This whole thing with DACs, amps, cables and so on, all this expensive > stuff that only adds up losses is so last millennium. These days you > could build so much better audio devices at so much lower cost if you > built a digital speaker and the technology has been there for 20 years, > it's overdue.
What I can confirm is the room taken by a 3.5mm jack in designing a modern smartphone, the problem with antenna proximity and a few others are really horrible LMS 7.7.5 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne, JRiver 21, Chromecast Audio, Chromecast v1, Pi B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Cubie2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106101 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
