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I will never get Lemmy's obsession with headphone jacks
Audio quality and affordability. Dankpods (youtuber) does a good rundown on the wired vs. wireless debate for headphones, but the TL;DW is that wired headphones have no latency, don't need to be repaired as often (no batteries), generally speaking have higher quality (no need for Bluetooth processing to murder the audio, and no additional hardware needed besides the basics), and cost far less for the same performance, aside from studio-quality gear.
The main advantage of wireless headphones is portability and convenience, but you lose all of the advantages above, also paying more for replacements and potentially more often (if you lose them).
Granted, you can bypass a lot of the issues with a USB-C to AUX adapter, but that means you're relying on the phone handling the conversion well (not always guaranteed), and it's another point of faliure that can be broken (alongside putting extra strain on the USB-C port).
Plus, options aren't a bad thing, ya know? You can cover it up with a piece of putty if you hate having options that much.
If you happen to forget your headphones, you can borrow a cheap one from anyone, everyone has a few cheap ones at home they don't care about. If this is not possible, you can buy very cheap ones in almost any shop. This saved me a few times from boring hour long train rides. I have a Sony BTW, so I have a small phone, 4 days battery life, a headphone jack, a SD card slot, no screen camera notch and front facing speakers. Unfortunately no one wants those feature so Sony mobile is dying.
I do, but last I checked they were too expensive.
The 10 series is cheap, but extremely shitty in the spec department. Plus almost no custom ROM support, stupidly high resale value.
I've seen sony phones, but I don't trust sony either.
What phone do you have?
I like options. I love my portapros. But they gather dust on the shelf because I'm a perennial cord-tripper and I will gladly sacrifice a lot of stuff to avoid all the footguns that wired headphones give me.
I still use them with my Gameboy advance sp clone thing that plays emulators. They're really good for that.
They don't yell low battery in my ears. They don't fall out of ears and get lost (i have weird ear holes) I have really comfortable headphones that don't pinch my ears that I can wear for hours.
Most importantly they DO NOT YELL LOW BATTERY IN MY EARS when I have a comfortable volume set.
They just didn't have a great reason to take it out of the phones. They took that away from us, as well as expandable memory/microSD card, and still made us pay premium prices (of course).
In favor of aux removal, they claim 2 things: it was another port/entry to waterproof/seal, and it "took up too much space in the phone". Both arguments are bullshit. Yeah, it's another entry to seal. But it's been done....a lot...and even in the few cases of catastrophic failure, the device still works just the aux won't. FINE. Let the port fail, don't just take that value away from us as consumers. That's dumb, that's not the manufacturer's choice to make for us. Then taking up space in the phone, again, total bullshit. It's been implemented millions & millions & millions of times, it's rather small, so easy to incorporate into design. If the phone is truly that damn small like the iPhone Air is supposed to be, that's just stupid & a design flaw. Chunk it up a bit!! Give us battery...and give us aux.
I think a big reason for getting rid of aux was to sell us very pricey Bluetooth earbuds, headphones. Which is why, to date, I have never purchased BT buds from a phone manufacturer. They were kind of shit to begin with, just as shit as their intentions, so I'm not giving them my money. I buy Jabra Actives. I might switch to Apple AirPods eventually, as they are getting pretty good, but goddamn I want to be able to buy & use aux/corded, too.
Then microSD they say it "could be unstable", or "it's slow(er) to read/write". Again...okay? Who gives a fuck? Let it fail on me, let it be slow. I don't mind. Over 20 years, I've experienced 1 freak glitch & recently 1 stupid Motorola phone that was nothing but problems. So basically 1 glitch & don't buy Motorola, problems solved.
Again I'm convinced it all comes down to milking specifically American consumers for money money money money. Why offer them the option for 2TB expandable microSD storage they buy from someone else for $180, when you can upsell them a mere 128 or 256GB more for $300+? Offer less, charge more? That's an easy decision if you're a greedy, pig-headed, soulless fuck that doesn't have to look the consumers in the eye and say, "Yes, I'm choosing to not implement a $5 feature so I can charge you exponentially more money for less product."
...long-short...I think this obsession comes from experience. We know how easy it is to offer products with these things. They did it for decades. It's reliable and good technology. They took it away from us for no good reason, probably to shake us down for even more money. And we're pissed.
hoeadphone jacks r - indeed - gud for headhones---
i have headphones - and dont wana bring a dangle with me whenever i wana use em-