[dba-Tech] Apple removes the headphone jack from its iPhone

[Rocky Smolin]

This could backfire.

Android has 80% of the market.  If I want to make a product it will be
compatible with Android first.  Then if there's a reasonable profit margin
I'll develop an iOS version. But if Apple raises the cost so my margin falls
below a certain amount, I won't do it.

If enough like me don't do it and the number of Android apps HW & SW
products swings more in favor of Android, some number of new phone buyers
will switch to Android and the problem will be self-reinforcing - a downward
trend for iOS. 

I guess that's one reason why executives are so highly paid.  They have to
make big decisions and take big risks.  And reap the rewards or
consequences.

R


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:37 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Apple removes the headphone jack from its iPhone

Apple is trying to take control of many businesses that have been able to
previously use the Headphone jack. Now if the some company wishes to use the
iPhone they will have to pay Apple a service fee. How crafty is that?
Companies that are selling the Square (bank card scanner), a digital
thermometer, vehicle monitoring software and hundreds of other companies
either with products or in the process of building products will have to
anti-up to be able to get access to this new proprietary technology. 

IMHO, the part about Apple's announcement, of the removing of the headphone
jack, is that they claim that it is brave to advance the technology but it
is so obvious that they are lying and are just trying to steal from
third-party developers and ultimately their clients.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/never-mind-apple-s-courage-removin
g-iphone-s-headphone-jack-stinks/
http://bit.ly/2cO1lFF

Solution; don't buy the new Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7.b will have a
headphone jack.  

Jim   
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