{"id":179857,"date":"2017-10-03T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/03\/iphone-design-fail\/"},"modified":"2017-10-03T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T03:22:00","slug":"iphone-design-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/03\/iphone-design-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Design Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Kb2m6Pd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Kb2m6Pd.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>This kind of defeats the 2mm you saved in thickness<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Apple has finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2017\/10\/1\/16393078\/apple-belkin-rockstar-iphone-adapter-headphone-lightning\">added a dongle with both a charging port and an earphone port<\/a>, and it is ugly and stupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It took an entire year after the release of the iPhone 7 for Apple to  start selling a dongle that lets you plug in headphones (or your car\u2019s  AUX cable) and charge at the same time. But now it\u2019s here. Apple is just  selling the thing, mind you \u2014 not making it. In September, Belkin  quietly announced <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=66960X1514734&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fshop%2Fproduct%2FHLJV2ZM%2FA%2Fbelkin-35mm-audio-charge-rockstar%3Ffnode%3D97a1d8a1180a8e5d8147c74074c20ea2b15a38e903a18e8f10ebda7db899ce829936053b1170bdd0b48e97e6704b2d7e4201bbcfeea2204c8230d15e470a4b65da0a831b8261736f5a939ce8b0e53be7ff3875991bd49ef2e7b555f7894d8da4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a new, second version of its \u201cRockstar\u201d adapter<\/a>  that now includes both a 3.5mm jack and Lightning port. Last year\u2019s  version had two Lightning ports, so if you wanted to use wired  headphones with it, you had to plug Apple\u2019s own headphone dongle into <i>another<\/i> dongle. Going double-dongle is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/11\/5\/13523372\/usb-c-macbook-adapter-donglelife-problems-thunderbolt\">bad enough on a laptop<\/a>, but on a phone?! Good grief.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this is expected for iPhone users. <\/p>\n<p>After all, you get your super thin phone, and then you put the delicate snowflake in a case that doubles its thickness because otherwise it breaks in a stiff breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This kind of defeats the 2mm you saved in thickness Apple has finally added a dongle with both a charging port and an earphone port, and it is ugly and stupid: It took an entire year after the release of the iPhone 7 for Apple to start selling a dongle that lets you plug in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[420,588],"class_list":["post-179857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-consumer-electronics","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}