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Cool idea. They could build in other obsolete technology too.
Maybe a MySpace app
Or a 1megapixel camera.
Or maybe a 3 1/2” floppy drive.
Now if they could get it to run Flash... 😀
The switch would actually just need me to recreate some playlists if I think about it...
Google play music will copy all your playlists in iTunes too so......
The cheaper option might be to buy another adaptor and leave it in your mates glove box rather than buy a new phone and as a couple of us have mentioned pretty much all manufacturers are dropping the headphone jack so when you next upgrade you might find your options are limited anyway.
Some cars even still come with CD players
Six CD multi-changer under my passenger seat PLUS a slot on the main stereo!
Currently rocking a full collection of Roald Dahl audiobooks 😆
"Hey Siri <pause> Play some music" worked! Almost. It was silent until I pressed a couple of buttons on the radio thingy unit. So, after a combination of voice control and old skool knob pushing, sounds filled my car 😀
iPod is still better.
Stilltortoise - you need to code EBT
Unless you have ProNav you won’t have the option to play on standard Nav.
Easily done in about 5mins with a lead
There are plenty of cars fitted with USB, but it’s 0.5W power, and can’t charge any modern smartphone, so the bloody battery goes flat, so in order to keep the phone charged I use a 12v adaptor; except mine wouldn’t work in the Golf I drove back from Cornwall today, requiring me to plug the phone into an Anker powerpack to use my satnav.
At least I had a DAB radio with 6Music in the car...
People talk about a Samsung like it's the only rival to the iPhone.
People don't seem to understand android.
I own an S8 but have owned various android phones. Loads of choice out there
My iPhone 7 charges fine in the USB socket in my Focus.
I don't understand why apple can't make a range of phones.
Big fat phone with a huge battery would be a start.
"Apple rage" .. früher:
I can’t believe anyone would sell their car and take a depreciation hit if hundreds or thousands of pounds over Bluetooth. Not only stupid but unnecessary. I had an smax that couldn’t play music over its BT system. I didn’t by a new car, instead it spent about £15 on a 3.5 jack to bluetooth dongle, plugged the jack into the aux socket, connected to the BT dongle and hey presto, music over BT. Worked fine for years. Thinking about getting one for my bose qc25 headphones to connect them to my iPhone via BT.
Siri is very useful, I dictate messages and email to it a lot and works very well. Not completely perfectly but requires a lot less faffing than trying to over ride spell check and mistyped words. It’s also good at making calls for you.
My kids find it funny to ask it silly questions and mostly it provides silly answers as it recognises a silly question and mostly understands it and provides a silly answer.
my home computer is a new iMac, my work computer is a bells and whistles macbookpro, I got one of them timecapsules.
my phone is android.
only one of these I pay for with my own money, everything else is work supplied.
iphones are shit.
I'm an android guy but I don't think Iphones are that bad. The only reason I use Samsung is because I have 64gig of music all in personally named folders and iTunes is such a pita to sort them out.
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I don't understand why apple can't make a range of phones.
Profit, they have a market and following of people who will buy what they told and ignore and technical failings (or tell everyone they are features) they have no need to address things they don't want to.
I don't understand why apple can't make a range of phones.
Why would they put the effort into that? They've already got more money than Croesus, why the hell would they care? They aren't about giving customers what we want - they are all about pushing their own (or Jobs') vision and getting us to want that. So if Apple don't want to make a thick phone with 3 days battery life, we ain't getting one.
I don't understand why apple can't make a range of phones
Do they only make one handset now? Did I miss when that happened?
Fewer models is wise for many reasons… only really annoying a few geeks.
Since getting the 7 no more than a few months ago this is almost a weekly occurrence which drives me potty!
And yet somehow, life goes on.
The car usb thing is likely down to the cigarette adapter. Some pull way less current than others. anker is where it's at.
Apple do make several phones. Whilst as can be seen from my earlier post I am not a fan, my wife is. She has some fancy huge iphone for work which she doesn't really like as its too big but has just got herself an iphone SE as a personal phone. Its cheap small has a long battery life and 128gb memory.
Steve Jobs built Apple by putting the tech narks who criticise users back in their boxes.
He's dead the geek are back in charge. **** em I'll have my 6 till it dies then buy a Walkman and they will all be back coding for PC's.
PS I am not alone iphone sales have been down for six quarters. iPhone 6 owners are holding on for a decent phone. Crunch time now as the latest
OS update has crippled the six and there's still no phone with a headphone jack.
Hence Sony marketing the ZX.
Really pleased for the iPhone users who can get by with Bluetooth or little adaptors but many of us don't want to spring a grand then compromise.
I have been using Bluetooth headphones and in the car since having a nexus 4 and feeling that the jack was in the wrong place and I find it more convenient than being plugged in anyway. So I’m obviously in the minority of people that have not missed the headphone jack.