Which one of you is it that works for Apple or Microsoft and writes the code that tells a computer to slow down, lose its internet connection, freeze, reboot, crash your browser, or generally respond to a request for a website with a friggin' spinning beach ball of death right at the moment of highest productivity or crisis?

"beach ball". So, Apple then.

@monkeyboy I can imagine Tim Cook staying late in and when alone, merging his own pull request with an evil laugh :D

@monkeyboy Yup. And just a few minutes earlier, my HP Spectre running Win10 also froze and crashed.

@ananaszjoe Right? And then he turns around and, not content with removing the headphone jack, he submits an engineering change to remove even the Lightning port from the next iPhone. Wireless charging and Bluetooth only from now on!

@stackodev That's not a bad idea nor an unplausible one :D

When was the last time you plugged in anything to the lightning port other than a charger?

@ananaszjoe as a videographer there are a number of ways and devices to use the Lightning and headphone jacks to manage and split the audio inputs and outputs via apps and adapters. As things move forward with eliminating all physical inputs and outputs in favor of wireless tech, no doubt there will be third-party devices that come around to using wireless capabilities. But there are drawbacks related to NFC radios that I’d rather not contend with like attenuation, distortion, signal loss, interference, etc.

@stackodev We're talking about iPhones now are we?

@ananaszjoe yeah. Device subject change. :)

@stackodev do you plan to continue relying on newly released phones for videography or would you recommend it to anyone?

My argument is, if you have the budget to pimp out an iPhone with various cinematography addons, you might as well use a device instead that was intended for this kind of use in the first place...

@ananaszjoe for the kind of videography I’m doing, the phone’s form factor and versatility is “just right” so I’ve decided to focus the accessories on its use rather than carry multiple specialized cameras of varying form factors and capabilities. It works well with a gimbal I rely on for steady shots and is more portable than the bigger cameras and gimbals built for them. The iPhone camera is really quite good and I’d love to upgrade to the iPhone X for an even better camera but I find the lack of a headphone jack limiting until I see an accessories kit that works. A big problem is in finding truly MFI-compliant (Made for iPhone) 3rd party gadgetry.