Skimming the details, making extra transactions, making fraudulent transactions as a lawful one is being made. I mean, card readers historically had hacks that intercepted the traffic and did unscrupulous things to the card holders account. But it you have a protocol that is piggybacking on to the audio jack, I guess it could be possible to do something horrible to the data on purpose. I don’t think there’s a risk on the iPhone specifically, It almost feels like removing the 3.5mm jack was a sociological science experiment to determine just how far people were willing to go to defend and rationalise a deeply dumb idea. Those wireless AirPods Apple unveiled to much fanfare? They have been delayed and delayed, and are actually still unavailable, because Bluetooh audio is complete and utter garbage. Lightning audio is stupid because only the iPhone/iPad support it (not even Macs come with Lightning ports), and wireless audio is garbage – something even Apple is only now finding out. We’re months and months into this discussion now, and to this day, nobody – not Apple, not Samsung, not John Gruber, not any commenters anywhere – has given me a real, valid, tangible reason why removing the 3.5mm jack is a good idea. There’s no tangible benefit to ditching the universal 3.5mm jack – whether Apple does it, or Samsung does it, or anyone else does it. We’ve taken something simple and universal, and turned it into something complex and proprietary, for no obvious benefits. And most of that money flows back to the device vendor, effectively increasing the price of the phone. Basically: not having a headphone jack might not be enough to deter sales of a phone, but it’s still really annoying and requires users to spend additional money to reclaim very basic functionality from their devices.
0 kommentar(er)
