So hey, you’ve probably heard some news about Apple and the headphone jack, and it possibly being removed. There’s two rumors floating around right now, both of which would involve you needing to buy new headphones or adapters to use your existing headphones.
One rumor is that Apple would introduce a smaller, D-shapred headphone jack, with part of the plug shaved off so that they can make the iPhone just that much thinner. This is based on a patent they applied for. You’d still need an adapter to use your current headphones, but it would be an option. As to why Apple couldn’t just go to a 2.5mm jack, they’d probably be able to make more money from D-adapters.
The other rumor is that they would just ditch the headphone jack altogether and go with the Lightning port for headphone orders. The problem for users would be that you’d need a not-cheap adapter to use your existing headphones on iOS. Unlike the old 30-pin adapter, the Lightning port doesn’t carry analog audio, it’s all digital. So any headphone adapter would need an integrated DAC chip in it, and that would run the price up on an adapter. Plus, unless Apple released a headphone adapter with charging passthrough, or introduced dual Lightning ports, you wouldn’t be able to listen with your headphones and charge at the same time. It’s possible Apple could change some technical specifications of Lightning specifically to allow analog audio, as well. Otherwise, headphones would get more expensive as they’d need integrated DACs and amplifiers to work. Goodbye cheap earbuds.
It’s possible this is all part of the Beats acquisition, to cut out the 3.5mm port and then sell the headphones that would have the Lightning adapters to support them, but remember that the Beats deal came off more as a talent and relationship acquisition to get Apple Music off of the ground as much as it was for the headphones, though the headphones do turn a nice profit, too. Or heck, this could just be one step on the way to Apple removing ports and buttons altogether. But while Bluetooth headphones do exist, ask anyone who’s tried listening to high-quality audio, watched video with terrible lip-sync, or games where the audio is severely delayed how the experience is right now. Low latency and high quality Bluetooth codecs do exist – Apple could create their own or license something like aptX Low Latency to improve the Bluetooth headphone user experience. Still, you’d need new headphones to use that.
We’ll see just what happens with these rumors – they’ve popped up before, and it might be an idea recirculating briefly before it dies down for being a poor idea. The headphone jack is universal, and omnidirectional. How thin do phones really need to be? After all, here’s a radical idea: slim the hardware down but use the extra space for more battery life, right?
and it was ruined with georgeous 3d touch with 6s / plus....
Played for a little this morning and having a lot of fun with it. Was very skeptical as it moved to f2p but so far have not hit any Annoying paywalls....yet so we will see.
Oh they come alright. I've been playing since soft launch and my eggs now take ~8 hours to hatch. That's after four 30 second levels:(
Why oh why did Rayman have to go FTP !!!!! I would of spent good money for another Rayman premium and they pull this crap.... Hopefully theres a one time unlock
You would *have* spent money, not would *of*.
Because there's a lot more money being made with f2p games. If they are good of course. I still prefer a good premium gpame tho...
I'll still check this out.
It's almost endearing when as a community we always have the hope that "during beta testing they've tweaked the FTP elements to not be so innocuous". I've yet to see a game (at least from big companies) EVER modify FTP for consumer benefit.
Innocuous means "safe" or "not harmful," like when you are being inoculated against a virus you are most likely receiving a vaccine. I think you mean they hope the FTP elements will be innocuous to those wishing to play the game, which is to say, non-encumbering.
Where is Mfi controller support ?
Is there a way to transfer progress from the NZ version of the game to a US version. If not I'll just keep the NZ one...
Does it require a constant internet connection?
I'm at the top of the leaderboard :D
Oh, the irony. Congrats!
Your the only one playing it.
This the same game that has been available on the Apple TV for quite some time?
sorry i no know
Is the server down??