Opinion: Apple's missed audio opportunity

[McMurdeR]

How many audio enthusiasts are using their phones to listen to music? Not many I'd say. Apple know their market. That said, here's one more reason why Apples devices are vastly overpriced.

Sooner or later the public will fall out of love with them.

 

[captaincranky]

How many audio enthusiasts are using their phones to listen to music? Not many I'd say. Apple know their market. That said, here's one more reason why Apples devices are vastly overpriced.

Sooner or later the public will fall out of love with them.

Well either, "we can only hope", or "you're giving the public way too much credit for free will and intellect". I suppose time will tell.

 

[p51d007]

Considering most of the music, that a typical 15-30 year old listens to, I doubt audio fidelity, is a big concern of most manufacturers. It's not like kids are listening to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 or something similar

 

[Raoul Duke]

JUST WATCH
Sales figures don't lie.

You realize people bought and paid good money for..wait for it....ROCKS! Plain ordinary rocks aka "Pet Rocks", in fact over a million and a half of them, which in 1975 made the 'inventor' a millionaire, when a million actually meant something.

 

[UltraModernGuy]

What's next? Is Apple going to force some crappy U2 album on your account? Oh wait...

 

[Kibaruk]

Your opinion is based on the cynicism that people don't care / notice degradations in their audio quality.

Those that do, probably have a good dedicated device already.

Also, care to explain what "tuning" means? Do you mean equalizing?

In a certain way it is equalizing, at least on Samsung devices (I didn't see it on LGs or Motorolas, maybe because old devices) there is something called Adapt Sound, that will beep tones in different frequencies and ask if you heard it to tune the audio to your specific ear and headset/earplugs. It changed the quality of audio for me and can not notice the difference between headsets tried on it after setup anymore.

 

[enemys]

LOL, someone actually put "higher-quality audio" and "Beats" in the same sentence.

You can get higher-quality audio than Beats offer for half their price, or even lower.

See? It's not so hard.

 

[Spike666]

My opinion to yours, is that you are preaching to the wrong crowd and staying on unbelievable old standards that are no long applying to the average user and technologies.

You've explained Apple's recent strategy quite well. They market to the average user and could care less about enthusiasts and professionals. The problem with that strategy is that tomorrow's "average" is today's way above average.

Also, I have tinnitus and total hearing loss above 5K (zero response on doctor's audiology test) but can tell the difference between compression levels in blind testing.

 

[LenovoX]

I hate that everyone knows about "Beats by dre" but no one knows Audio-Technica or Sennheiser...

mainstream ****, don't bother... it's better for us

 

[Nathan Sokalski]

Apparently the world still hasn't realized or accepted that Apple and all their iCrap is not worth buying and should be removed from existence.

 

[spydercanopus]

So does the Lightning to 3.5mm jack have a DAC in it?

It sure looks like a dongle without anything in it.

And if the adapter doesn't have a DAC, then there must be one in the iPhone 7 to function with analog devices...

 

[fktech]

ITunes environment sucks for managing iPhones, iPads, iPods, etc., but works well for managing and playing my large music library. Hence the inability to add video, music, media to others iStuff not linked to your account is a pain. Will not play Flac music... Only plays mp4 video. No expandability. Short battery life. No removable battery. Constant flawed ios updates...

Apple is not listening to its customer base. I also support less technical family / friends that use iStuff. Supporting iStuff is becoming more difficult to manage over time. The iStore, app updates and add ons has a death grip on my wallet.

Now add the ios 10 flop, expensive, delicate and losable wireless headphones and you have me looking for the off ramp.

 

[Mr WW]

Hold your horses, if they hadn't ditch the audiojack, how could my friends everly see that my new Iphone isn't an old 6(s)?

 

[Jeff Re]

Just wait until we have to hear all the hipsters tout how much better their iPhones sound now with whatever horribleness they are listening to.

 

[captaincranky]

Just wait until we have to hear all the hipsters tout how much better their iPhones sound now with whatever horribleness they are listening to.

It's pretty much a given, that Apple whatever owners will continue to think they're smarter, and socially superior, to those in possession of other brands of merchandise.

It's become pretty much a general law of human nature.

Now show me somebody who owns an iPhone and drives a Tesla, and I'll show you someone with paranoid delusions of being, "the living embodiment of the uber mensch".