How do Apple get away with removing basic tech, and calling it "progressive" and "courageous?"

[JohnnyDelRay]

I dunno how much discussion this will get being in the Tech section, but basically I have a bit of a rant and something that's puzzled me, as in seriously, not just being a tech snob about it.

Most recently, everyone by now knows that the iPhone 7 has no 3.5mm headphone jack. Yes, there are Apple fans who are against this, but the majority of fans will still camp out for this phone, and more yet will defend it. Ok, so my personal gripe: I still need that shit. Here's why:
1) All my wireless experiences thus far have been mediocre. Keeping something charged all the time for IF and WHEN I need it, which is once a week at max, is stupid. Especially when I have a tablet, phone, and fitness band to keep charged on the off and on.
2) All my wireless experiences have been rather poor, thus far. Serious lag in connection, battery life deterioration, occasional fiddly connections or pairing, or straight up device failure in short time (all of my wireless devices are dead in fact).
3) Still use aux like hell: My phone is paired to my car, but when I'm in other cars, I use it. When I play drums or keyboards, I use the aux in. And I don't have to worry about a dongle being attached to my phone, I just plug it right up.

Another point in case: The latest Macbook. It has ONE fucking USB-C port. ONE, that's it. Through which you plug in mice, USB sticks, drives, card readers, displays, peripherals, and most importantly for a laptop: CHARGE the damn thing. How is this deemed "courageous?" What idiot would suck that up and say, "yes, great move! THANK YOU" If you want to plug in more stuff, well you need to buy more adapters to carry around with you. Kinda defeats the purpose of lightest, thinnest, laptop doesn't it?

Now I have to point out that I am in no way anti-Apple. I have never discouraged people from using them, or even trying them out for possible migration. My wife is an illustrator and has used them since day one. I even built her a Hackintosh as a "fun" side project. My mum has gone mac for awhile, but has since come back. I did multimedia at university and found them quite suitable for the task, though in no way were PC's inadequate.

Another disclaimer: I'm not about hanging on to old tech. But if it's good, and the future doesn't hold significantly better, DON'T get rid of it. Like IDE to SATA: miles better in every regard. We'd be stupid not to adopt. But this forced move to wireless has got me wondering what the hell is it that we have to decide to lose all our cables for?

*END OF RANT* Please post your thoughts. Agree? Disagree? Think I'm a tool? Let me know!

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Just an additional in case anyone says "If you're not an apple user, why the hell do you even care?" Well I'm just worried that other brands who think this is the trend now will start taking basic tech off their devices. Samsung already had a crack at removing micro SD from their phones, which didn't go over too well. And there are other brands which are thinking of reducing their laptops to one or two USB-C ports. I do not want to see this happen, at least not until wireless shows itself to be the true reliable, efficient, and flexible tech that it seems has been forced upon consumers.

 

[gsilver]

I'm pretty frustrated by it, especially because my office is a Mac-only shop.
When they replace my laptop, I'll be restricted to whatever dearth of ports Apple has inflicted on the laptops at the time.

I'm also consistently frustrated by the amount of background processes (and thus poor battery life) that Android forces on me, and considered switching to an iphone (that, and getting access to itunes, where most of my music is anyway)
Not going to happen without a headphone jack. I'll take the slightly more inconvenient process of getting music onto my Android, since I'm not re-buying my headphones, especially since I already own high-end ones.

 

[SnowyGamester]

I'm also consistently frustrated by the amount of background processes (and thus poor battery life) that Android forces on me, and considered switching to an iphone (that, and getting access to itunes, where most of my music is anyway)
Not going to happen without a headphone jack. I'll take the slightly more inconvenient process of getting music onto my Android, since I'm not re-buying my headphones, especially since I already own high-end ones.

Have you tried installing a custom ROM? I recently switched from the stock firmware on my S5 (where I'd already rooted and disabled pretty much everything) to Cyanogenmod 14.1 and it's a massive performance improvement. Also are you familiar with iSyncr? It hooks into iTunes and lets you sync your playlists to your phone pretty easily.