A Defense of the IPhone 7

[Johnw1104]

Captain_Yuri said:

"packaged with the phone is an audio jack adapter and a set of quality wired earbuds"

Loll. I am pretty sure people that are complaining about it have way better quality earbuds (which actually doesn't take very much to beat apple's stock one) than those. And the thing is... Samsung has done a lot of things with their Galaxy S7 while having the headphone jack. If the S7 wasn't waterproof, then maybe people can understand but the issue is, the Galaxy S7 is Waterproof, has most of those things including the Barometer, has bigger battery and even has wireless charging.

Oh and not to mention you can't charge it while listening to music and considering it effectively requires you to unplug and replug when you want to listen/charge, it will decrease the amount of times the port will allow you to plug and unplug before it dies. So essentially, it cuts the life of the port by a lot since there is always a certain amount of times you can unplug/plug a connection into a port. Oh and of course, people will lose the adapter since it is so tiny and will have to get replacement ones. On top of that, Apple will require companies to get a license for lighting port in order to make wired headphones to work with the iphone 7 which will increase the price of the wired headphones if you want to use the lighting port.

Really, the only reason why Apple really did this is to make more money and hardly anything else. Companies that want to make wired headphones will have to license the connector from apple and not to mention Apple's new airpods.

I've really liked the earbuds thus far, though obviously there's always better ones available. The main point is that you can use whatever earbuds you like with it, and don't have to use wireless if you don't want to. It's true that it means choosing between charging and music, but how often is anyone really looking to do both simultaneously? I've always used my phone for music while out and about, not when I'm stationary where there's generally better options available. Besides, I imagine there will be some cheap 3rd party splitters in no time that allow for simultaneous music and charging, such as the little charging stations/speakers they always come out with for these things. Otherwise, you could play music for many hours before you ever burn through the battery.

That whole "life of the port" thing is interesting and something I hadn't thought of... I suppose we'll just have to wait and see. My sister has stretched out her iphone 4 across many years now with the port still functioning just fine, though, so I doubt it will be much of an issue.

As for losing the adapter, I must again ask why people are so worried about losing things when it's so easy to keep things organized. It's not as if we haven't always had peripherals that could be lost, so this is nothing new; just be careful with them and consciously place them in a few chosen spots. Otherwise, third party ear buds will always work with the adapter... the only thing you'll be forced to buy directly from Apple itself are the adapters (if you lose your original) or the wireless earbuds. As I complained about in my OP, I've never cared for Apple's approach to peripherals, but it's not as bad as some make it out to be.

Otherwise the picture you paint with the Samsung Galaxy 7/Iphone 7 comparison is one of the Galaxy being able to do everything the iPhone does, but this certainly is not so... here's a list of ways the iPhone is superior to Samsung's Galaxy 7:

-iPhone 7 water resistance is at least as good, if not superior to the Galaxy 7:
http://bgr.com/2016/09/19/iphone-7-vs-galaxy-s7-water-resistance/

-The Taptic Engine and touch features (which accounts for a great deal of the room used within the case) has no true counterpart in Samsung phones. I've already come to love it as it allows the user to do things, such as opening the phone and swapping apps, far faster than before.

-The iPhone 7 is far, far faster than the Galaxy 7. In fact, the iPhone 6s is faster than the Galaxy 7, and in the below comparison they used the smaller model iPhone 7 that crushed Samsung's phone. The more similarly sized iPhone 7 Plus, that went untested in the first video below, has 3gbs of RAM as opposed to the 2gbs of the smaller model, so the difference is even more stark.
https://youtu.be/k_PK_6F_Bhk
https://youtu.be/PVPd7N8Dn5Q

-The iPhone 7's aluminum exterior is much more durable than Samsung's Galaxy 7, making it less likely to break when dropped.
https://youtu.be/CvIoZ9_FJrU

-Though the updates can be irritating, Apple phones have a large advantage in that they receive continous and constant support via patches and updates that Samsung phones often go many months waiting for or even longer once they're no longer the newest generation. As much I don't like updating, I like it even less when I'm waiting for crucial updates to try new apps and utilities.

-The addition of two sterio speakers, one facing up and another facing down, provides superior, clearer sound to the Samsung counterparts.

-When Samsung released the Galaxy 7 it looked to me like their cameras had finally caught up with Apple's iPhone's, but the recent iPhone 7 has raised the bar even higher. I'm excited to see what Samsung does in response.

-Finally, no iPhone 7's have spontaneously combusted yet :D

 

Obviously, both are great phones, but this notion that the iPhone 7 has nothing unique to offer is just silly. Given the size of the normal iPhone 7, it being shorter, thinner, and lighter, they've made excellent use of the space in a way that allows the phone to outperform the Galaxy 7 in many areas.

One notable exception is resolution, where the Galaxy 7 still exceeds the iPhone 7, but even there the iPhone 7 has increased its gamuts of colors and brightness to match Samsung's phone. The other big difference that I prefer Samsung's approach to over Apple's is that they allow Micro SD cards (probably because they manufacture them) to increase storage, whereas Apple requires that you either pay a small monthly fee for more cloud space or simply delete files to make room. I never even finished filling the previous phone, though, and can't imagine reaching 128gb on this one... adding to that the ease of simply exporting your pictures to a computer, and it really doesn't seem like any kind of problem.

So yes, both great phones, but there are certainly things the iPhone 7 does better than the Galaxy 7. It's just a matter of preferences, really.