Apple does seem to create more buzz about things in general (it's their way of marketing, for good or evil) but as for me, the Samsung issue is "Li-ion cells are volatile, sometimes there are bad batches" is not a story. We knew that.. Meanwhile, "the death of analog, open standards" is worth discussing.
Right. A hand-held ticking time bomb is a non-story.
An ancient audio port being migrated to a $9 adapter is the end of days.
> Meanwhile, "the death of analog, open standards" is worth discussing.
Just like the death of the standard floppy disc. And the death of the standard optical disc. And the death of the standard parallel and serial ports. The death of the standard PS2 port.
Motorola released a phone earlier this year with no analog 3.5mm jack. Where was the overreaction, the ridiculous petitions and bullshit we see whenever Apple does something?
I could go through and refute all of your points with what I believe, but that's just proving my point - there are differing opinions on the matter so it's worth discussing.
Nobody is taking the stance that Samsung batteries exploding is a Good Thing. And it's not as if the story doesn't have traction - I'm seeing jokes all over the place about exploding Samsungs. Until someone unearths a story about wilfil negligence (such as when Capacitor Plague was being caused by failed industrial espionage), there's just not much to discuss. We already had the Chinese Batteries discussion recently with the hoverboards.
> Where was the overreaction, the ridiculous petitions and bullshit we see whenever Apple does something
I addressed this - Apple's marketing is to create massive buzz and expectations with marketing like "perfection" and "magical". Of course there's going to be backlash. They revel in it. They used to market themselves as "the crazy ones".
edit: also, Apple also has far bigger market mindshare than Motorola. They alone have the power to bifurcate a market into proprietary standards. With the Motorola phone, people just go "eh" and buy a Samsung. With the Apple, they're still breaking sales records.
Anyone who seriously works in networking still needs serial ports all pro grade networking gear uses it for console and OOB connectivity to the AUX ports (in ciscos case)
You also need serial ports today for low level kernel debugging, hardware bring up, and embedded systems. I have worked for 5 different companies over my career doing embedded systems. Serial ports were important in 5/5 companies.
The floppy drive died after a significant fraction of the users stopped relying on floppies. Similarly discs were made unpopular by streaming before the CD drive died. Most people I know still plug in their head phones and most new headphones sold still have a cable.
> The floppy drive died after a significant fraction of the users stopped relying on floppies. Similarly discs were made unpopular by streaming before the CD drive died.
My point was that Apple dropped all of those things while the "mainstream PC" industry was still shipping them as standard items.
> most new headphones sold still have a cable
cough
"Bluetooth headphones account for 54 percent of U.S. dollar sales in the category, according to NPD"
Seriously if it is by revenue that means there are at least a hundred times more people using $10 quite decent wired headphones.
Me included. I don't want blue tooth headphones. Ever!! Can I make it more clear?
There is no comparison possible between a bad battery problem in one particular phone and headphone jack removal.
The fact is Apple has a very long tradition of making every part of their ecosystem more proprietary over time and fucking their own customers over along the way.
Just consider the lightning port. As if it wasn't bad enough they refused to use the ancient industry standard micro USB in the first place, they then went on to screw over their own customers by changing their own connector
As far as the floppy drive, a lot of us had long since dropped it in the PC industry even if charitable vendors were courageous enough to offer long term to support to customers who may still have had a legacy requirement at the time.
>Just like the death of the standard floppy disc. And the death of the standard optical disc. And [...] //
I think in all those situations an alternative newer option was made and existed in parallel gradually gaining support until the other older tech wasn't needed.
Personally I don't think I've ever seen anyone using wireless earbuds despite Bluetooth having been around a long time. Bluetooth earpieces for phone calls were common for a while, but more recently I've seen more people use a wired mic on their earphone cable.
It does seem likely to me that we'll move wireless with ear-buds but this transition seems much more forced than the others you've cited.
