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zyxley | 9 years ago

You don't need to buy a dongle - it comes with one.

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csommers|9 years ago

I seriously question the quality of the DAC in that dongle.

Gorbzel|9 years ago

Clearly you've never seen any teardowns of Apple adapters. Usually the best (cleanest power, data throughput, etc) in their respective categories.

jdminhbg|9 years ago

If you cared about the quality of the DAC, wouldn't you have bought a great one already?

cortesoft|9 years ago

And you think the built in DAC on the old iPhones was better?

wl|9 years ago

Audio DACs have not been the limiting factor in the analog signal chain for a long time.

astrange|9 years ago

There are no bad DACs anymore and there haven't been for a decade. You'll probably be getting slightly better analog environment since the DAC isn't near the antenna and CPU as well!

Zombieball|9 years ago

That's a key benefit of this change. Ditch the legacy analog port that is wasting space. Allow consumers to use a DAC that meets their quality standards, be it a cheap one in the dongle, one built into headphones with a lightning connector, or an external / improved DAC dongle.

awj|9 years ago

Why do you think it would be any different from what they built into previous models?