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~~America~~ Ignorant, selfish pricks, stopped using headphones.
Let's be real. You have to be pretty self absorbed to not realize how ignorant it is to walk around playing your music out loud or having a conversation on speakerphone instead of putting the damn phone to your ear.
And its not just flights. Its busses, restaurants, waiting rooms, forest trails.
I blame apple. It's a direct result of them fucking with 3.5mm jack.
It used to be simple - plug in wired headphones.
Now I have to have Bluetooth headphones with shitty battery life and skills to connect them.
Guess what - my mom was able to use wired, she cannot handle wireless it's too complicated for her.
Thank you apple assholes. All because u wanted to sell another product - people can't use headphones anymore.
My mother does the speakerphone thing but she's also half deaf from a lifetime of loud blue collar work. It's never as clear cut as you think
Oh there's an easy solution. Talk loudly right next to someone carrying on a conversation out loud on the phone.
Join the conversation.
Bring back the headphone jack. Dumping the 3.5mm jack is what brought this on.
It is simple as that. I do not want to worry about the headphones being charged and losing another charging case and making more room for another thing to charge where i charge everything else.
I do not want that at all.
It was the dumbest thing to make me need batteries for headphones. And I don't do any of this stuff that is in the article. But BRING BACK THE JACK.
I am still salty about this. I was generally neutral about Apple until the headphone thing, and now I just loathe the iPhone for forcing the bullshit of Bluetooth headphones in the world.
People have been loud and obnoxious since long before Audio jacks were a thing, and they’re going to continue being loud and obnoxious long after your grandkids ask “what’s an audio jack?”
Your glasses are nostalgia-tinted. The jack or its absence didn’t prevent or cause this.
Yeah I mean boom boxes existed in the 1980s.
I can't stand going to a restaurant and having to hear a child's tablet playing a video.
It's a thing that inconsiderate people and just plain bad parents do
It does keep the kid from talking loudly and fidgeting and running around. But yeah if the tablet/phone is loud it's annoying.
My kids are loud too. What keeps them from talking loudly and running around in a restaurant is me. (Why no fidgeting?) If you've got restaurant money but no more sanity or time, then bring them to fast food, not a nice place with social norms.
Fuck yes it's hard. Everyone has excuses, every child is different. None of those excuses are everyone else's problem.
Fucking amen. I've never had issues with my kids in a restaurant because I waited until I knew they could handle it. Pretty god damned simple. Plus there's just certain things you don't allow like...running around unsupervised? Wtf is wrong with some people.
Narcissistic indulgences
If it's on speaker they want you to join the conversation, so don't feel shy about joining and taking the conversation where you want it to go.
How do people not realize this?
Take your phone off speaker phone. It isn't a difficult concept. Entitled assholes. Keep your voice down so you don't irritate the hell out of others. I don't want to hear about your intestines. (BTW not aiming this at the op just at those that can't figure this out.)
It's Apple's fault.
They took away easy to use 3.5mm headphones.
Bluetooth headphones are a lot more complicated to use. And 3hr battery life earbuds won't help u on a 12 hr flight.
A cheap adapter and you can use regular headphones again
Calling out rude people needs to be normalized. Stop being polite to those who aren't.
Have fun with that...
I have called out rude people both politely and bluntly. Always is a conflict. So, just prepared to get into it.
Lots of people are intentionally rude, hoping someone says something because they're addicted to rage and want to be "attacked" for something they feel is acceptable.
They'll immediately escalate, and especially in America you have no idea who has a gun. Making a reasonable request can be met with screaming and if you respond in kind then they feel "threatened".
Doesn't really matter what happens at trial, a crazy person that was looking for conflict just pulled their gun. The next 5 minutes matter more than the next five decades.
This means their current behavior becomes normalized, so now everyone is acting like it, people respond to anything with aggression because acting mentally unstable works. It makes the other person go away until you do it to someone even more unhinged.
A polite request to someone like that is a sign of weakness and guarantees an escalation, so even reasonable people stop being polite and start with direction.
The craziest are directing society.
It's not new and it's not the first time, but it rarely works out well for society.
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I also won't live in fear of the crazies with guns (police excluded because holy fuck they will murder you and your family, including your dog, without remorse).
I do by joining into the conversation. People get offended but shut up, walk away, or call the person back later. In an airport or worse yet, an airplane I don't worry about the conflict. On a subway, different story.
Take your phone off speaker phone.
Kids and idiots base their phone usage off vapid camera-ready idiots on reality TV whose entire usage is to play for an audience. They don't understand that holding their phone like a slice of pizza
And so it's "monkey see, monkey do."
Make America feel shame again.
I blame apple for fucking with 3.5mm jack
New iphones come with a USB-C cable.
That’s it.
They formerly came with cable, charger, and wired ear buds appropriate to the phone.
Airlines distribute 3.5mm jack ear buds, if any at all.
It’s already a potential failure point expecting people to remember to carry an accessory allowing them to listen privately even if one is provided with the device on an incredibly common connection type.
But now they’re not included, you have to buy specialty USB-C ear buds or expensive airpods. More points of failure.
Haven’t even touched on the asshole factor of individuals just not giving an F and listening to their devices on speaker without regard to their fellow humans.
Every single flight I’ve been on there has been at least one individual VoIP calling, video watching, or gaming on their cell phone speaker that needed to be told to stop by the cabin crew.
Many countries have made it illegal for phones to not use USB-C. Would be nice to also make it illegal for them to omit the 3.5 mm jack too
Obvioisly if someone's on speaker phone it's because they want you to join in the conversation. It's your duty to gather round and give your loud & uninformed opinions
People in this country are shit pigs and they resent anyone that tells them that obvious truth.
Why does that article feel so disjointed? Tgis paragraph was especially random:
“I engaged once with a guy who had a different opinion. He was like, ‘I don’t think so. I don’t think it’s bothersome.’”
No explanation or attribution for the quote. Just sandwiched in there
It's the text equivalent of a sixth finger.
It only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they're basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.
My steam deck has a headphone jack.
I wonder if drug dealers also do this.
(Henry's phone rings with a machine gun ringtone. He answers it on speakerphone without a second thought.)
(Henry looks at the bewildered people around him.)
You jest, but I've spent a year+ homeless, often around fentanyl/meth addicts/dealers.
I've heard conversations very similar to this, albeit with more slang, many times, either just on speaker phone, or with the volume turned up so loud without the speakerphone on that you can hear the whole convo anyway...
I've heard this many times, on buses packed with people, at encampments, in shelters, at bus stops on the street, etc.
They don't look around bewildered and surprised afterward. They act jubilant, cocksure.
They don't give a fuck.
Ah, we're back to the Nextel era, hooray! Which itself was caused by the fact that Nextel PTT was just more convenient to use by grab-and-talk than it was to bother opening the phone and switching to the handset speaker.
Tech bros and AirPods caused this current problem. Give a person something expensive, easy to lose, and unreliable that runs on batteries, they're going to choose the safer loud option while traveling. Plain and simple. Tech bros see it as profit, completely ignoring the societal implications because that's not their problem.
Affordable common wired headphones included with the device that don't interfere with the power jack, nor require a battery, should always be the way.
Edit: Spelling
Damn so many Nextel push to talk ads just came rushing back into my memory.
Also, how the fuck are AirPods “unreliable”?????? I have a 1st gen pair that still works just as well as my other AirPod pro pair. They have hours of battery life and the case itself has an internal battery bank. How does profit have anything to do with wireless audio and the removal of phone jack??? They didn’t take away the jack to sell more headphones LMAO.
I hate wires and I’ll physically fight anyone who says we shouldn’t do wireless simply because some anssholes exist.
Everything has its place. At my desk with my computer, I don’t want to worry about keeping something charged, and it’s only ever connected to my computer, so I’ll use wired. If I’m listening to music at home or playing games on the couch I’ll use wireless over the ear headphones, and if I’m out and about I’ll use my AirPods.
Where you at dawg? The whole city is behind us!
Gonna spend the rest of my response over the obvious triple question mark. (And I have a Motorola BT headset from 2006 that still works, AirPods are not that, for the record. They were always eWaste.)
Had a first gen pair that randomly die in sequence during meetings, they aged to uselessness in under 2 years. No way to replace the battery, obviously. Audio behaves weird sometimes. Unreliable - I also meant a meta-reason as to why people don't use them in airports pre-flight. The battery life is unreliable if you forgot you used them earlier and didn't recharge, or rather, short. So you aren't looking at all-day wear and listen, you have a finite amount of time. I've also on a few occasions almost dropped the tiny buggers on flights when taking them out to hear flight attendants, which makes me avoid wearing them on some flights so I don't lose them forever. Anker actually makes a pair of around-ear projection headphones that work all day, the battery is obviously bigger, and won't bother mentioning the model because not trying to shill them.
Unrelated general stuff: AirPods were also an homage as their existence made every other company produce tiny firecracker ear devices. Samsung has a pair that one earphone just stops working as loud as the other, who knows if it was ESD or ear wax or fate. Not anything to do with unreliability mentioned above, obviously, that's a Samsung thing.
Probably would be more usable if they were as cheap as they cost to make that a person could just own two or three pairs and just swap them from the charge case, but that would also accelerate eWaste.
I've wasted countless hours waiting for people on zoom calls to sort out their stupid air pod issues.
They didn’t take away the jack to sell more headphones LMAO.
That is absolutely why it was done.