Comments on: Adventures In Coupling

By: iFahey

iFahey — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:55:00 +0000

There will b no more smack talk about my new baby the iPhone. Ah! I said no! Its perfect!
iFahey xxxx

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:49:05 +0000

I think you have to admit that [they?] must’ve done something right in regards to the iPod…

I said “…I’ve never found…”, and I have no personal experience with the iPod, other than avoiding buying one.

Incidentally, the Sansa is quite nice. About the only downside is it doesn’t quite hold all my CD’s. But it’ll hold most of them. Lately I’ve been listening by songs in alphabetical order (all songs, from all CD’s). It’s kinda interesting. Obviously sometimes it plays the same song two or more times in a row, in different versions, or by different artists. The bad part is when I’m listening to a song and thinking “oh, the next song [on the original album] is really cool!” but then of course that song isn’t next.

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:54:52 +0000

Personally, I’ve never found Apple to be “pretty good at engineering stuff”, so I’m not surprised they’d mess up something as simple as a headphone jack.

I think you have to admit that must’ve done something right in regards to the iPod…

By: InfK

InfK — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:05:43 +0000

OK, you win THIS round…

And seriously, do you think they’d let people plug in any old manky half-working earpieces and risk not getting the full sound quality of the iExperience? A control freak like Steve Jobs would never permit that. I bet he demanded a proprietary, Q-shaped plug until someone on the engineering team talked him out of it…

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:50:51 +0000

What link do I click to register a prediction for the topic of tonight’s upcoming blog post?

I think you’d get it wrong… keep in mind I composed Friday’s entry earlier in the day even though I’m not posting it until now…

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:20:10 +0000

Coincidentally enough, the lead story in the “DIY Tech” column of the latest issue of Popular Mechanics (April) is on how to clean a malfunctioning iPhone headphone jack.

Personally, I’ve never found Apple to be “pretty good at engineering stuff”, so I’m not surprised they’d mess up something as simple as a headphone jack.

By: InfK

InfK — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:59:06 +0000

What link do I click to register a prediction for the topic of tonight’s upcoming blog post?

By: Flasshe

Flasshe — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:08:27 +0000

Since my ears are too small for “normal” earbuds, I’m not sure inserts would help. I need some plastic surgery to enlarge my ear canals.

By: InfK

InfK — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:22:16 +0000

Can’t you just get fitted ear inserts to adapt to normal earpieces? I mean, you can keep running into this issue, or you can fix the problem at its source…

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:04:18 +0000

I still think it’s to make sure you buy their product when you need to replace them. When people go to buy new headphones and are told they also must purchase an adaptor in order to make them work, a whole lot of people are just going to buy apple.