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How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by moonleay@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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On a recent post, there were a lot of comments, which said that they were missing the headphones on newer mobile devices.

How many actually use the headphone jack?

I ask, because I have one on my phone, since I really wanted one, but I rarely use it. Like Tops 1/Month.

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[-] varsock@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

People like having choice, it was never about saving space in phones.

If you look at which company (apple) and the time of removal of headphone jack (around the time their wireless buds were announced), you'll notice they removed choice so the consumer can only buy more expensive wireless buds, or many many dongles.

The "save space" is an absolute lie. The international (EU, Asia, etc) version of the iPhone has a dedicated SIM card tray. The US model? No tray, just a freakin placeholder where the international version has the SIM tray. Yes, there is a volume of space that can fit 2 headphone jacks on the US iPhone that is just empty.

Look at this iFixit video where they call apple out on it. The placeholder is huge. at ~1:17+

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