Definitely. Never understood why some manufacturers removed jacks
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Rayuza@lemmy.world 10 months ago
All we need now is a headphone jack
KCN@feddit.it 10 months ago
sebinspace@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I personally prefer my bluetooth headphones, but it’s not like bluetooth and jacks can’t exist on the same device…
Plus, pairing bluetooth in a car can be annoying as fuck. Looking at you, Nissan
Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like BT pairing and functionality in cars has always been shit. I have issues in my 2020 Ford, had issues in my 2015 and 2018 bmws, and my gf has issues in her Toyota.
limelight79@lemm.ee 10 months ago
BT pairing in our Ram works fine, and it works fine with the aftermarket Pioneer radio in my car. I’ve never had a major issue with either one with any phone I’ve owned, iPhone or Android.
For our Mazda, though, BT pairing does not work reliably with my Samsung S21 - it’s okay for phone calls (in fact, the car “steals” my calls if I’m on the phone at home and my wife gets home with the car), but for music it almost never works correctly, unless I’m also using Android Auto, which is rare because I just don’t need it for most day-to-day drives. The BT phone and music works fine for my wife’s iPhone, though.
I blame the car - my phone works just fine with several sets of Bluetooth headsets, and the other two car stereos. I think Mazda just didn’t bother to do any debugging before they shipped that piece of shit to the dealers. (This theory is based on other bugs we’ve found in the infotainment system as well.)
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Because they do the bare minimum to meet the spec so that they could advertise it then. They still do the bare minimum now.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah I want a headphone jack, but the truth is that I can’t remember the last time I used mine. I have an old phone plugged into an old amp that I can play Spotify through, otherwise I use bt.
KCN@feddit.it 10 months ago
Yeah, they could coexist. I’m partial to non-bluetooth, but only because they come in shapes that I find more comfortable, and I’ve yet to find bluetooth ones that don’t make my ears hurt
Mdotaut801@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know there’s ways you can change that, right? There’s different sizes you can get for the piece that goes in your ear and they often come with the headphones/ear buds.
Psiczar@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Headphone jacks are a 19th century invention, if having them restricts innovation then I am all for removing them.
oce@jlai.lu 10 months ago
We can’t only consider innovation today, we also have to consider its ecological impact. Jack plugs and headphones are way more durable than Bluetooth equivalent. I have 16 yo jack headset that still works perfectly, I only had to change the cushions twice.
brb@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s specifically the wire that always breaks first. How can they be more durable?
Psiczar@aussie.zone 10 months ago
So stop making any technological advancement because of the potential impact of e-waste? Not saying it’s a bad thing but it will have have its own environmental implications. No new energy development, we have to rely on existing oil and nuclear technology rather than investing in making renewable energy sources cheaper and more efficient.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
So are speakers and batteries.
Psiczar@aussie.zone 10 months ago
True, but we don’t have any practical alternatives for them.
KCN@feddit.it 10 months ago
Technically 20th century, if I’m not mistaken? I just don’t see how they would restrict innovation, I guess
Psiczar@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Apparently it’s based on a plug invented in 1878, according to the BBC.
rambaroo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A “19th century” technology that objectively produces better sound quality and uses less energy. And I already have wired earbuds and headsets.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unless there’s an alternative, no it’s not restricting innovation.
samsy@feddit.de 10 months ago
The argument was saving space for other parts. That’s true in a way. But if things needed we should have this space. What’s next? Saving the space of the charger? /s
FireWire400@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d be almost ready to say that we don’t need them any more if Bluetooth headphones were about 100x better and cheaper
T156@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At the same time, wired earphones/headphones are already just as good with a lot less parts/complexity.
You don’t need batteries, radios, and chips for coding/decoding a signal coming out of a headphone jack. You can just plumb it straight into the speakers. No need to mess with controls and all of that, which would make them a lot cheaper.
cjthomp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still too much lag. I love my QC45s, but there’s still just enough lag to bother me
briongloid@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Bluetooth 5+ definitely made wired headphones obsolete for me.
zik@aussie.zone 10 months ago
But now you have to charge two things rather than one. Some people would prefer not to have to do that.
raptir@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Bluetooth headphones are solid now, as long as you have something that supports aptx HD and LL (HD for music, LL for movies/games). But yeah they’re not cheap.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We need SD cards more. They removed them so they can charge you 300 $ to upgrade 128gb and to force you into shitty cloud service.
Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.
el_bhm@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I have flashbacks to using external storage on Android. It was such a shit show of an API. That being said, external storage, to break away from cloud storage is the next needed thing. We need to own the data.
beigegull@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When you design an OS to pretend there’s no such thing as a file, it ends up being bad at handling files.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah, even today, browsing through files on Android is a fucking mess. And there isn’t an SD card.
So the SD card wasn’t the problem
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Mobile Linux FTW
chaircat@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeh and fuck them
LatteWiiU@pawb.social 10 months ago
Agreed