Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU

Rayuza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • beigegull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When you design an OS to pretend there’s no such thing as a file, it ends up being bad at handling files.

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      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Mobile Linux FTW

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  • chaircat@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

    Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.

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    • LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeh and fuck them

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  • LatteWiiU@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed

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• KCN@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Definitely. Never understood why some manufacturers removed jacks

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  • sebinspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.)

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      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • macrocephalic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • KCN@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • Mdotaut801@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Headphone jacks are a 19th century invention, if having them restricts innovation then I am all for removing them.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s specifically the wire that always breaks first. How can they be more durable?

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      • Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So are speakers and batteries.

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      • Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True, but we don’t have any practical alternatives for them.

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    • KCN@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically 20th century, if I’m not mistaken? I just don’t see how they would restrict innovation, I guess

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      • Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Apparently it’s based on a plug invented in 1878, according to the BBC.

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A “19th century” technology that objectively produces better sound quality and uses less energy. And I already have wired earbuds and headsets.

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    • Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unless there’s an alternative, no it’s not restricting innovation.

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  • samsy@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • cjthomp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still too much lag. I love my QC45s, but there’s still just enough lag to bother me

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  • briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bluetooth 5+ definitely made wired headphones obsolete for me.

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    • zik@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But now you have to charge two things rather than one. Some people would prefer not to have to do that.

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  • raptir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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