> When Jobs was alive I could still play YouTube videos with my screen locked
I still can today. It's background mode, part of Youtube Premium.
> I could listen to music with a set of conventional headphones
You can still do that, too. USB-C to headphone adapters are easy to use and cheap. Lots of folks complain about the lack of headphone jacks, but if you have a cable from your headphones, 4 more inches for the adapter at the end is not a problem.
> and iOS did not yet suffer from the storage bug.
No but when he was alive it had lots of other bugs.
And Steve was still not a great person. So for all these allowances, we can't rewrite history.
> I still can today. It's background mode, part of Youtube Premium.
If you’re trying to make the case that things are just as good under Tim Cook as they were under Jobs, paywalling commonly-used features behind a monthly subscription is not an argument in your favor.
> You can still do that, too. USB-C to headphone adapters are easy to use and cheap.
Using an adapter means I can’t charge the device while I’m using headphones. It’s also pointlessly cumbersome.
> If you’re trying to make the case that things are just as good under Tim Cook as they were under Jobs,
I never made such an argument.
> paywalling commonly-used features behind a monthly subscription is not an argument in your favor.
Blame Paypal, not Apple. Apple's to blame for plenty anyway.
> Using an adapter means I can’t charge the device while I’m using headphones. It’s also pointlessly cumbersome.
It's not cumbersome AT ALL if you're already carrying headphones. Many phones charge wirelessly so you CAN charge them while using a USB-C headphone adapter.
> It's not cumbersome AT ALL if you're already carrying headphones. Many phones charge wirelessly so you CAN charge them while using a USB-C headphone adapter.
I am never willfully obtuse. It's an asshole move.
In this case I GENUINELY do not see how it's cumbersome at all. I've done it. I used cell phones before they used the standard headphone jack, and tended to use the smaller trrs with a Y adapter to breakout mic from output, even that didn't bother me, I left it attached to the headset I sued with those devices. I find the wired part the most cumbersome, so the addition of 3 inches of cable for the adapter never made even the tiniest difference to me. I moved to Bluetooth very early.
It's 3 inches, 5 grams of weight, and it stays attached to the end of the headphone cord. It's a joke to say carrying this along with a wired headphone/earphone is cumbersome.
I still can today. It's background mode, part of Youtube Premium.
> I could listen to music with a set of conventional headphones
You can still do that, too. USB-C to headphone adapters are easy to use and cheap. Lots of folks complain about the lack of headphone jacks, but if you have a cable from your headphones, 4 more inches for the adapter at the end is not a problem.
> and iOS did not yet suffer from the storage bug.
No but when he was alive it had lots of other bugs.
And Steve was still not a great person. So for all these allowances, we can't rewrite history.