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iPad Air uses Touch ID
I think overall removing it was a good idea but not replacing well enough is where they went wrong. As has been said here, at least 2 ports, 1 for headphones and 1 for charging or anything else, wouldāve been bare minimum.
Walking down the street holding an ipad with two hands and operating with thumbs. I absolutely fell in love with this during my commuting days. Dongle breaks that.
Iām just curious how the dongle breaks that? Itās essentially the same as using a headphone port.
Thatās a > @kidslow said:
Iād argue that if the musical or spoken content is interesting/relatable to the listener, it will trump the sound quality in most cases.
Weāre all here obsessed with sound quality listening in hi res on good to best quality equipment. Most listen to lowest quality files on shittiest equipment.
I donāt find it shocking at all. Itās like a chef being surprised that people go eat at McDonaldās.
Same, I just leave the dongle connected to my headphones now. It's tiny and doesn't weight anything. Only $9 to replace, could be WAY worse. Dongle has a better D/A than the old headphone jack too, another bonus.
Yep same here. Havenāt taken the dongle off my monitors inā¦I dunno how long lol.
I can see the argument about not being able to charge simultaneously but just walking around with headphones, seems like the dongle would feel the exact same.
My air 5 which came out just last year has Touch ID and the M1 chip. Itās still sold new as well I believe. It should be as itās barely been out 2 years now. Itās been great for me. Can handle a lot of apps and runs smooth and quickly. Great screen too.
How are other devices not real stereo? Arenāt devices functionally the same as far as stereo is concerned regardless of whether they have a 3.5mm jack or not?
Us old guys remember when everyone was trying to get the best audio playback equipment they could afford. Everyone! Now it's a tiny niche hobby that most people never even notice or care about. It's a massive cultural shift.
Yeah, I get your perspective but Iām only 52 so can only use my empathy skills š¤£
Jokes aside. Yes, many things have changed and I suppose only a certain age bracket knows both then and now. When the last of us falls there will only be old movies and Wikipedia to remind folks of the times long gone.
The good thing about tech is that it makes quality equipment more accessible. A half decent pair of earphones can be had for as little as Ā£10 with a bit of research and those can be driven by fair quality phones that are available to most. Itās not audiophile stuff but enough to properly hear whatās been recorded.
When I did my short audio recording course in Milan, Italy I will forever remember a tiny speaker built into an old analog mixing desk. When I asked what was it for I was told that every mix was put through it to emulate a transistor radio. That was the most common way people listened to music at the time. If it didnāt sound great on the tiny speaker the mix was inadequate.
The headphone jack was in the corner of the ipad and not in the middle, which is where my hand goes.
Prolly saved your life from getting hit by a car or walking into a manhole though. š
Hehe, an artist suffers for their work,
ššš fair enough š©¼š©¼
Oh nice! Glad I could help
good luck with the search
So is your old iPad gonna be the dedicated music iPad and this new one for other things?
I assume you got a USB C hub, too? I think people often assume that using USB C for audio out means that you canāt charge simultaneously, which is simply not true if youāve got a hub that also has USB C in for power delivery from a battery or power adpater, which is most of them, as far as I can tell. (Also: does your monitor support charging and acting as a hub? Thatās also nice. Though Iāve never seen a monitor that converts USB audio to headphone jack.)
Yes, I know itās a pain having a substantial extra thing flapping about, but if charging while listening is the scenario, youāre not exactly going to be walking down the street while using it. And if you ARE just walking down the street, a USB C to headphone adapter is just as lightweight as a Lightning-to-headphone one, right? My bluetooth headphones died recently and I had to use a Lightning adapter, which was āfineā. Yes, itās one more thing to lose, and it's multiple dongles depending on the scenario, and yes, itās ridiculous.
Also, I donāt want to get too fanboy here, but Apple are helpfully very stubborn about biometric data staying on the device. I donāt think thereās any difference between Touch ID and Face ID in this regard. Isnāt this why they originally created the Secure Enclave, which is now part of the SoC? As in, their refusal to involve server farms in any kind of biometric authentication means theyāve now made it a core part of their āCPU" architecture. (And as the celebrity iCloud hacks demonstrate, I think itās far worse having personal photos in the cloud than having biometric data locked in the SoC on your device. And itās not just āhackersā that can get access to that cloud data, itās the cops ā see below.)
I think this style of thinking also applies to their approach to AI ā as I understand it, they have cores dedicated to AI just so all the machine learning happens on-device. All the automatic categorisation and tagging they do to your photos doesnāt happen in the cloud. I guess they still WANT permission to send Siri recordings to a server for āimproving dictationā, but you donāt have to turn that on. People talk about Apple missing many opportunities for more wide-ranging machine learning integration in their products, and I think this stubbornness is part of that. I can respect it.
I think the biggest count against Apple on the privacy front is that despite the well-publicised case in which they refused to unlock a mass-shooterās phone for the FBI, I think thatās all centred on maintaining the integrity of their secure systems (i.e. official, baked-in backdoors for government would make security a joke), rather than a desire not to comply with law enforcement: they can indeed supply content thatās in iCloud, for example, if itās the subject of an above-board search warrant. Again, this is far more dangerous than what Apple does with your biometric data.
Oh, and in case it gets lost in the mush, Iām far more worried about data collection for targeted advertising and other such algorithmic market mechanisms than I am about āsensitiveā personal data like photos being accessible by the goon squad, which is bad enough but not going to rot our civilisation in quite the same way as the former.
@tja Iāve not used one, but Iām instinctively with you on the Touch ID power button. Even if it worked flawlessly, I would still always wonder if it was going to fail due to the sheer lack of surface area involved. And yeah, its positioning is not ideal. But then, even using the power button to confirm purchases is enough to drive me insane.
Yeah, "double-clicking" a tiny thin button with little travel, sharp edges and strong spring loading on the edge of a paper-thin device was probably not one of Apple's best ideas š
You sure this isnāt the ādynamic volume buttonsā setting? This wasnāt ever available for iPads with home buttons, which might be why youāve never seen it.
https://support.apple.com/en-au/102354
Additionally, Apple famously donāt think thereās a ānormalā landscape modeā¦ until you put a keyboard case on it, in which case it obviously does. Given this ambiguity, when they finally addressed the needs that arise in this scenario, it led to the infamous āyou have to use the old non-magnetic Pencil because we painted ourselves into a corner when we finally put the webcam in the right placeā situation. Ugh.