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And yet, even if it is possible to build just about anything, the ultimate constraint is the attention of the end user: what do they actually want to do, and does your product help them do it? Instagram’s Complementarity

To be sure, the physical constraints of hardware lead much more quickly to one ideal solution the infinite malleability of software seems to give a much more expansive canvas for doing something original. In the case of smartphones, why wouldn’t you copy the iPhone? Nokia refused and look where that got them! Most successful companies, including Apple, including Google, seem remarkably capable of ignoring the naysayers and simply doing what is right for their company. Maybe it was simply not caring what anyone else thought about them, their strategy, or their inspiration. 1 Samsung the copycat was smart enough to realize they needed to change, and quickly, and so they did. That’s why I’ve always had more respect for Samsung than most I wrote in 2013 in an article called Shameless Samsung:Įvery pre-iPhone phone maker is irrelevant, if they even exist, except for Samsung, who is thriving. Well duh! How else would you make a phone post 2007? If it doesn’t work straight off, make sure the other end is plugged into your source device.One of the more eye-rolling sentiments in tech - thankfully fading - is that every rectangular device with a touchscreen is a rip-off of the iPhone. If you’re still having trouble, try plugging the TRRS cable into the dongle first, and then plugging the dongle into the iPhone or iPad.Īnd if you’re using an older device with an actual headphone jack, grab yourself a TRRS cable and you’ll be good to go. If I plug it into an iPhone, it takes a while, but will eventually be recognized as an input source. I found that if I plugged one of these into a 2018 iPad Pro, it works straight away. This is used to carry the microphone signal. This looks like an ordinary jack cable, only it has three black rings around the jack instead of two. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of MacĪ headset cable works every time. To record, press play on one device, and record on the other, and you’re off. Just unplug it from those headphones, and plug it into the output of your audio source instead.