If you ’re someone who does the writing of the things , you will eventually get on a PR posting lean or two . Or , well , more like 800 . It ’s closer to 800 . felicitation , you will never be alone . On the downside , your inbox will be buried with merchandise declaration about which you could not wish less . They all start something like this :
Hey , [ MAIL MERGE line of business # FIRSTNAME ] , hope you ’re have the expert day ever ! I just want to see if you were interested in drop a line about the hot new intersection to come out of the burgeon athletic field of hamster - related technologies . Starting with nothing but a loanword of $ 1.5 million from their parents ( and several subsequent run of seed capital from angel investors ) and working from a garage in Brentwood , these three techbros have created what Hamstertech Weekly called “ Echo Show for hamsters ” …
They ’re all disrupting hamster monitoring , these bros of technical school .
Now , the Macalope just deletes these things . All - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. long . That is his 2nd business now . manifestly . Some citizenry are born to delete PR emails , others have it throw upon them . By atomic number 59 companies .
Some sites take practically all of these , typewrite them up and have God sort them out . Others sift through them and indite up only those single they think might be of sake to their readers .
Sometimes , however , you get golden and one of them is not only something your reader might be interested in , but also allows you to scratch a long - maturation urge .
Take it away , The Verge .
“ Belkin ’s new $ 30 Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone cables are your dear evasion from dongle hell . ”(Tip o ’ the antler toNick . )
“ Dongle Hell ” is the Macalope ’s third pet AC / DC birdcall .
I ’m tired of all this dongle drama
Says the site that has made dongle dramaone of its signature tune moves .
Belkin has a unexampled 3.5 millimetre to Lightning line out , which is , I suppose , a safe thing .
So now you may more cheaply do audio out from an iPhone 7 and up if you invested heavy in mini - in equipment back in the aughts . Okay . But what about those of us who invested heavily in 8 - track in the ‘ LXX ? Where ’s our cable length ?
But mostly , the whole affair just makes me sense shopworn .
I ’m gon na pen up this press freeing , but I ’m gon na kvetch about it . Mark my row .
How did we get here ?
This piece makes more sense if you peach it in aMorrissey spokesperson .
Iiiii just wanted to plug away in my headphones
But Apple wo n’t let me
They wo n’t have me
Howww did we get here ?
Does anyone really believe that this is truly a better organisation ?
Well , the Macalope does n’t know how you ’re doing it but the compounding of AirPods and an iPhone issubstantially betterthan wired headphones , yes . Is it perfect ? No , but make no cables to get caught in things or to have to wind up after using is extremely liberating .
But is n’t it better to have the pick to use a 3.5 mm connecter ? Not really ! The horny one has aver this many times but he still uses an iPhone SE which has a earphone shit and henever employ it . Having that laborer is an chance cost . His phone could have more battery or be thinner and maybe more waterproof .
Anyway , congrats to The Verge for being able to take press release lemon and make a soothing cream for that lasting headphone Jack-tar itch .
