There Was iPhone News! New Macbook’s “Just Work” With iPhone Headsets!
Ha! No iPhone news indeed! We knew Steve Jobs wouldn’t abandon us completely, not his baby, not his “third-leg” love child! Jason Snell, putting the new MacBooks under the microscope for Macworld, discovers (via Daring Fireball):
Yes, it’s true — these new MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones. If you click the button on your iPhone headphones, iTunes pauses. Click again, and the music resumes. A double-click advances one track, and a triple-click moves back a track—just like on the iPhone. What’s more, the headphones’ built-in microphone appears as the input device “Microphone port” in the Sound preference pane.
How awesome — and completely Apple-like is that?
(But is it enough to make you order a new MacBook?)
October 14th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
wow i will still not buy it even after that
October 14th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Couldnt this be done via software update???
October 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
big deal – make the iPhone talk to ‘real’ headsets that can do music via BT…
Yawn
October 15th, 2008 at 10:20 am
WOW. So the cheesey headphones work with the over priced computers…..imagine that. I’m truely surprised. I thought for sure you would need some type of over priced adapter to do that. Of course, being able TO BLUETOOTH WITH THE DAMN PHONE would be a better option, but we can’t have that, now can we?? Big whoop. Same ****, different bag. AS USUAL. AND as usual, TiPb thinks this is “news” and exciting. How about holding Apple accountable once and a while?? Maybe if you would stop “drooling” over every LITTLE THING they do, and report honestly about what a joke this phone is, we can get something done. All this looking the other way about this phone’s short comings is getting just a little old.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:52 am
biggest yamn evar. Good lord. The fact that consumers have to pay $500+ more for a fashionable computer over a similar powered pc is already ridicules. Guess how these new macbooks now work with the crappy iPhone headphones (how much dies apple charge for those?) makes up for the price premium.
I’ll save my hard earned $ on a pc laptop and get another Eee PC with the $ I just saved.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Jesus people… bitter, bitter, bitter!
You want to go buy a PC, go buy one. It makes me happy when I don’t have to fight retards for my new MacBook.