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[–] warm@kbin.earth 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

The only reason the headphone jack was ever removed is to sell you wireless earbuds.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

People will deny this but this is the only real reason for doing that. The other reason is copying apple, which isn't really another reason as apple removed it for the first reason. Fairphone just went the extra mile to claim that headphones are wasteful, in essence they're making an excuse to cover up their reason why and also trying to force others to do it as well.

[–] ActionHank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

or a adapter at greater than 20x cost

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

YUP! I'm sorry, Apple earned more money than Spotify purely based on their airpod market. I refuse to believe otherwise.

If they truly cared about repairability/maintainability they'd give me a headphone jack phone with a replaceable module in case it wears down.

I freaking hate dongles, I always have one when I don't need one and can never find one when I don't. They randomly don't work or I don't know if this AliExpress one I bought is actually stealing my data. Just give a built-in jack, please!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I velcro’d dongles to some wired pairs of headphones, but haven’t been using them.

AirPods have been great for stockholders and bad for our planet’s inhabitants. But I cannot deny the flexibility, seamlessness (even across devices), speed to don & doff, and convenience are powerful factors.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They also sell headphone to USB cable. I'm not saying the lack of a headphone jack is good but if their goal was really to sell wireless earbuds then selling a USB to headphone cable was a bad move, no?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] tabular@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A master plan to make more money selling a cable than a port on an already bulky phone?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes the 3.5mm port, known for its bulk. Perhaps we should remove cameras as they have actually bulked out phones in recent years.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

If I had the option I would have chosen a smaller camera module and included an audio jack. I genuinely think they choose to not include it as a compromise, rather than to sell a cable you can get cheap elsewhere.

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As Louis Rossmann also said, using a single port for both charging/moving data and listening music increases the wear on the port. They're just made to wear down faster with the absence of the audio jack port.

Plus it's impractical, as it occupies the type c port.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What’s the lifetime of those ports you think?

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

I dont know, but if you also use it to plug in earphones you may double the use.

Im using my type c port phone for about 3.5years so far (I rarely plug headphones in it though) and the port seems ok.

But either way, this extra wear down is simply another negative aspect of this move and I think so far the disanvantages outweigh the advantages (also I think it's just so that they can sell their wireless earphones and on a lower degree support planned obsolesence).

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you plug in in to charge, the device is at rest. When you plug in headphones, there’s a high chance it is in a pocket or otherwise in a state where the device is moving which will be a lot more wear than just idling charging.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

Wow - would never have considered that! Great insight.