Let the fun begin. The Apple store IS DOWN!

[DP]

I would also like to know who all the people were that were hooting and hollering like Steve just rose from the dead and walked in on it? The ones who cheered for everything mentioned. Employees? Paid shills? There was certainly nothing amazing that caught the world's attention like what used to happen.

[OWC Jamie]

employees

they were asked to stand up and be recognized towards the end.

[deckeda]

This I like about AirPods: Songs do not get sent through a second sausage grinder.

Bluetooth is seriously bandwidth-limited no matter the version number. Default "Bluetooth sound" is uniformly horrible, which is why aptX has been an improvement. It compresses the song file even further for better transmission, while avoiding the yucky default Bluetooth audio codec.

But aptX isn't lossless. Not a big deal if you start with a lossless file such as AIFF, WAV, Apple Lossless or FLAC, but *most* users store lossy files on their phones. If that's an MP3 you're out of luck; it'll get reprocessed for even crappier sound. But if it's an AAC file, an iPhone can now stream it unfettered (avoiding aptX's second meat grinder compression) all the way to the AirPods.

Last I heard, LOTS of iPhone users (iTunes Store customers) have AAC files on their iPhone, or stream from iCloud. That's a large and ready market.

iPhones could already do this to *other* Bluetooth headphones/speakers, because Bluetooth does support streaming AAC files directly. But unsurprisingly, Apple hasn't pushed (marketed) this capability, which is why *virtually no* 3rd-party Bluetooth headphones/speakers work with streaming AAC files, preferring instead the proprietary aptX, additional processing and all.

[D-Rod]

Will the adapter work with all the card readers out there or only for headphones?

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Huh? Then you're about to run out of power—put that sucka on the charger! If you must make that last phone call, the iPhone 7 has built-in speakers and wired earphones. Do what you want.

Umm, but my charger goes in the same port at my wired earphones...

How am I going to use the new external battery for my really long train commute and my wired headphones...


Well I guess you're up ShitCreek, sister!

(Go wireless.)

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DP wrote:
I would also like to know who all the people were that were hooting and hollering like Steve just rose from the dead and walked in on it? The ones who cheered for everything mentioned. Employees? Paid shills? There was certainly nothing amazing that caught the world's attention like what used to happen.

Yeah, the cheering when Jobs introduced the amazing iPod Socks was deafening and rightly so!

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deckeda wrote: But aptX isn't lossless.

aptX has a lossless codec surprisingly called aptX Lossless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptX#aptX_Lossless

[Filliam H. Muffman]

[Bernie]

I will wait to see what Woz say's. He was really ragging about bluetooth audio quality (in general) and the lose of a headphone jack on the new iPhone.

[Grateful11]

Bernie wrote:
I will wait to see what Woz say's. He was really ragging about bluetooth audio quality (in general) and the lose of a headphone jack on the new iPhone.

I refuse to listen to music via Bluetooth in our vehicles, it just doesn't sound as good. It's either through the charging cable or flashdrive.