Headphone Horror: This Is the Future Apple Wanted?
In its Zen-like zeal to simplify - and increase profits - Apple may have inadvertently added complication and not so inadvertently larded on expense.
The question is whether its fans will continue to follow with lemming-like obeisance - or - as this suggests, resist when they believe it more practical and easier to do so. JL
Chaim Gartenberg reports in The Verge:
As soon as Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack from its phones, it
was inevitable that someone would eventually create this chimerical
monster. a pair of Lightning headphones with a second, integrated Lightning
dongle for charging the phone while listening to music. "It looks ridiculous, but it’s also so practical! And it’s a pretty reasonable price, too.”
I suppose it was always going to come to this. As soon as Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack from its phones, it was inevitable that someone would eventually create this chimerical monster. But it doesn’t make it any more enjoyable to see in real life: a pair of Lightning headphones with a second, integrated Lightning dongle for charging the phone while listening to music, as seen on Engadget Japan.
This is the world that Apple has created, one with the Cheero Earphones with Charging Dock. They cost 2,980 yen (around $28), and claim to be MFi-approved, which would make it one of the few third-party Lightning charging dongles around.
Tracing your eyes along this hybrid horror is almost like an optical illusion: one cable splits in two and then splits into two again, forking and twisting as it curves around. And yes, we’ve seen plenty of Lightning dongles before that have tried to fix Apple’s design through standalone Lightning splitters, but somehow this still seems worse.
The worst part about the Cheero Earphones with Charging Dock is that about halfway through writing this post, I started to think, “You know, that’s actually not a half bad idea. I mean, it looks ridiculous, but it’s also so practical! And it’s a pretty reasonable price, too.” Such is the state of living the cursed half-existence that is dongle life.
It may be too late for me, as I already look to see if anyone will import these monstrosities into the US so that I can own a pair. But one has to wonder: now that the Cheero has been spawned into the world, where will the dongle madness end?
We bought the Sennheiser HD 650 so our professional reviewer may want to very well take a look at and check it. Keep studying for our complete product review. The Sennheiser HD 650 black Friday headphones are intended for audiophiles and expert track producers. There’s certainly no getting round that fact—in case you need to select out up a couple of HD 650s, you need to remember simply how specialised they are, and simply how their overall performance may be under-applied or, at worst, absolutely misaligned. At their core, they prioritize sound first-class chiefly else, placing maximum in their cash into the development of the drivers and the open-lower back design. They aren’t flimsy, that’s to be sure, however in case you’re seeking out flashy bells and whistles and additional functions normally located on consumer-grade headphones, you ought to appearance elsewhere.
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Tracing your eyes along this hybrid horror is almost like an optical illusion: one cable splits in two and then splits into two again, forking and twisting as it curves around. And yes, we’ve seen plenty of Lightning dongles before that have tried to fix Apple’s design through standalone Lightning splitters, but somehow this still seems worse.The worst part about the Cheero Earphones with Charging Dock is that about halfway through writing this post, I started to think, “You know, that’s actually not a half bad idea. I mean, it looks ridiculous, but it’s also so practical! And it’s a pretty reasonable price, too.” Such is the state of living the cursed half-existence that is dongle life.It may be too late for me, as I already look to see if anyone will import these monstrosities into the US so that I can own a pair. But one has to wonder: now that the Cheero has been spawned into the world, where will the dongle madness end?
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We bought the Sennheiser HD 650 so our professional reviewer may want to very well take a look at and check it. Keep studying for our complete product review. The Sennheiser HD 650 black Friday headphones are intended for audiophiles and expert track producers. There’s certainly no getting round that fact—in case you need to select out up a couple of HD 650s, you need to remember simply how specialised they are, and simply how their overall performance may be under-applied or, at worst, absolutely misaligned. At their core, they prioritize sound first-class chiefly else, placing maximum in their cash into the development of the drivers and the open-lower back design. They aren’t flimsy, that’s to be sure, however in case you’re seeking out flashy bells and whistles and additional functions normally located on consumer-grade headphones, you ought to appearance elsewhere.
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