Yesterday Apple revealed details about the iPhone 7 and its lack of a headphone jack which calls for their new wireless earbuds (AirPods) which cost $160. You can take a wild guess how well people reacted to the news on Twitter.
Today we’re rounding up even more funny reactions to the news, including the parody ad above by Jack Douglass of jacksfilms (via Blame It On The Voices). It got much meaner than I was expecting at the end, but everything else before that made me laugh. Douglass wasn’t the only one poking fun at Apple for removing the headphone jack and then saying it took “courage” (the exact word Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller used, which I’m assuming is a euphemism for “a blithe unawareness of how people outside the Silicon Valley bubble are living”).
Some commenters were quick to point out there’s absolutely no way they will ever be able to find their AirPods later:
Already lost one of my airpods just from watching that commercial.
— Eartha Litt (@ItzBreeZyBaby) September 7, 2016
I don't even own the new iPhone yet but I can guarantee you I have already lost one of my AirPod ear buds.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson (he/him/his) (@jessetyler) September 7, 2016
And there were comparisons made to other things the AirPods look like:
https://twitter.com/ggeek4/status/773590365806788608
And some had jokes about Apple’s strategy in general:
You don't need a headphone jack. pic.twitter.com/gYwjrHCfVQ
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) September 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/773567955238002689
Other people had complaints about the lightning port replacing the headphone jack, with the new option being a proprietary dongle adapter or expensive wireless ear buds:
Apple: Remember the free headphones that worked great, what if I told you we had ones that only work for 5 hrs and cost 160 bucks
Me: go on
— John E. Cakes (@mattytalks) September 7, 2016
Hey other bad ideas imma let you finish, but the new iPhone not having a headphone jack is the worst idea of all time.
— Ben Rector (@benrector) September 7, 2016
So now I can't charge my phone and listen via auxiliary jack simultaneously? Small price for 2 mm of additional thinness!
— Vince Mancini (@VinceMancini) September 7, 2016
And some people got straight to the point about what they want from Apple’s new iPhone 7 and AirPods:
https://twitter.com/bodyofmyown/status/773631645588926464
i don't want wireless headphones I want to be able to close the YouTube app without the video stopping THATS ALL I WANT #AppleEvent
— &rea ! 🇵🇸 (taylor’s version) (@andreaistupid) September 7, 2016
The iPhone 7 is fully submergible, I can finally waterboard Siri!
— mike ginn (@shutupmikeginn) September 7, 2016
Sorry Apple, but I depend on a dangling earbud cord to signal to others that I don't want to interact.
— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) September 7, 2016