So, say you’ve just shelled out over half a grand for an iPhone. You get it home and take it out of its over-designed box. You run your hands over its smooth, polished exterior. You examine the included “ear bud” headphones and decide to substitute a pair of your own.
But alas, the bleeding thing doesn’t fit your headphone plug! The damned device’s headphone jack is recessed into the phone’s body, so headphones with thick plugs, or with short L-shaped plugs, don’t fit!
The solution: shelling out $11 for a iPhone headphone adapter.
Apple, I know you’re listening. I know that Belkin, Griffin and other accessory manufacturers depend on your delivering a slightly incomplete product, so they can sell billions in accessories to make your spendy toys complete. FM Radio transmitters car chargers are all fair game. But can we please produce products that work with the billions of headphones that have already been produced over the past — I don’t know — twenty years? I mean, this makes this device less compatible than a cassette-based Walkman.
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