[mrbrowning]

I don't think they will, or at least they ought not to, because the situations aren't equivalent. At the time that Macbooks started shipping without CD drives, every use case facilitated by CDs was achievable via some other mechanism. Wireless audio doesn't cover all of the affordances of wired audio, since it's incapable of low latency transmission. For me it's noticeable enough to even make watching video with synced sound unpleasant, but what it makes basically impossible is any sort of music creation. Music production is a specialty market to be sure, but it's a non-trivial one, and basically everyone who uses their iOS devices for it is going to remain rightfully annoyed that the proposed successor product is literally unusable for their purposes.

[thirdsun]

> literally unusable for their purposes.

Unless you get the $9 adapter discussed here. I get your point, I use iOS devices as musical instruments, but it's a niche and as such a fair trade-off most consumers don't care about.

I'd rate the healthy app ecosystem for music creation on iOS much higher and more valuable than the somewhat annoying necessity to use adapters for niche applications.

[mrbrowning]

Right, I didn't mean to say that they've made it totally impossible, but that the form factor they're trying to push as the "next thing," wireless audio, is not actually a replacement for that use case ("successor product" refers to wireless headphones, not newer iPhone generations).

But, yeah, I agree that the ecosystem makes it worth it -- it's not like there are any other viable alternatives, anyway.