You should totally update to iOS10. A little Apple (TM) planned obsolescence will put a stop to your contentment real quick.

lol. Dropping support for 4 year old devices is a feature not a bug of Apple products.

Dropping support is fine (although Android don't do dat). But when you push updates incessantly to incompatible devices....theeeeennn we got a problem.

Dropping support to encourage people to buy new Apple devices when their current one works fine is now a feature? Appleholics...

Downloading iOS 10 now. But just found this article,

iOS 10 security glitch makes it easier for hackers to steal your data

Too bad they caught spooky ghost...

Not allowing performance/hardware requirements from 4 year old devices dictate what you do in new software is absolutely a feature.

Notice that that's not actually the same as what you're saying. But hey, you're dumb.

What?

LOL

Spooky Ghost was the hacker behind the fappening.

What's 100,000 years divided by 2,500? Just another security firm looking for a little publicity and another tech journal looking for a little ad revenue.

iPhone 7 confirmed not worth it if you have iPhone 6+.

When texting in 10, the third suggestion will be a damn emoji many times and it doesn't appear that there's an option to make it a word. Another Apple "feature;" adults losing a third of suggestions feature.

Lol

https://youtu.be/FF-tKLISfPE?t=1m45s

Thought this was an interesting quote from Jobs. Apple seems to be moving away from this philosophy.

"One of the things I've always found is: You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it. And I've made this mistake probably more than anyone in this room. And I've got the scar tissue to prove it. And I've tried to come up with a strategy and a vision for Apple; it started with what incredible benefits can we give to the customer? Where can we take the customer? Not starting with Let's sit down with the engineers and figure out what awesome technology we have and how are we going to market that."

Lol

Curious what the ratio is of your "LOL" only posts : to posts with actual thoughts.

it's unknowable, unlike the soul read you're putting on a huge corporation because what, you don't like their current phone?

It's fascinating how you can't have an objective conversation about the direction of your beloved phone manufacturer. Isn't that the definition of fanboyism?

The engineers say "hey we can output audio via the lightning jack." The company implements that and then markets around the tech. Thats literally the mistake Steve Jobs is pointing out.

Explain how it's the other way around.

Oh.

Fair enough, I guess.

You don't sound any more objective than I do. Apple has consistently moved towards simpler designs in their hardware, fewer ports that do more, fewer wires for the user to deal with. Removing the audio port is totally in line with that philosophy and has nothing to do with technology for technologies sake.

Earlier you said you never charged your phone and used headphones at the same time. How has the amount of wires been reduced? You know what hasn't been reduced? The amount of adapters you need in order to use a decent pair of headphones. How's that for starting with the user experience?

Edit: Also, fewer ports doesn't equate to a better UX. It equates to a better Apple engineer experience. Their whole marketing this year has been that removing ports makes their lives easier. The end user obviously would be better off with the option to use 3.5mm/lightning/bluetooth. It obviously doesn't affect us one way or another if there's an extra port (IP67 and 3.5mm jacks are not mutually exclusive).

We've already been over this. I moved to BT headphones a long time ago to not have to deal with headphone wires while hiking. I need no adapters to listen to iPhone. The phone gets plugged in for charging, it's a much better experience than dealing with cables. That's what Apple's view of the future is and they are slowing moving customers there. If Apple moves to inductive charging I can see a future iPhone with no ports at all and just imagine the bitching from internet experts over that. Where are you seeing Apple commercials that mention the audio port or how much easier that made it for Apple? All I see are commercials about how much better the camera is. Apple obviously disagrees with about what makes the end user's life better, the are betting it will be better with an iPhone without an audio jack than any other phone with one.

List which BT headphones you use since you think BT and wired headphones are indistinguishable in sound quality, lol.

An even more glaring hole in the whole "wireless is the future maaaaan" argument, is that unless you buy the sole model of $160 air pods from Apple you need a microUSB + charging brick to charge your headphones. So when you need a lightning charger for your phone + micro-USB for your headphones + lightning headphones when your headphones are charging.