how else are you supposed to connect it to cars that weren’t made yesterday?
No one has been using aux cable mobile headphones for the past 10 years. Headphone jack is e-waste at this point. bluetooth audio is great and if you really want to be a boomer you can use the usb C headphones.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
What the absolute fuck are you talking about? What am I supposed to do with the dozen wired headphones I already have? Some of them decades old? Throw them in the garbage? Sounds real eco-friendly.
It is. We had it on phones since before the original iPhone. No one wants to take that away.
Problem is BT headphones last 2 years then they go in the garbage because the batteries are dead. How eco-friendly is that!?
Auth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes if they’ve lasted decades thats their job done. Now people are buying usb C headphones and there is no need to continue to support decades old standards. The ewaste from a pair of headphones is tiny so its not worth fretting over.
Also BT headphones last longer than 2 years. Mine are 1st gen samsung buds and going on 5 years at this point and still hold enough charge to listen to music during my work day. If im going to be using them all day I have 1 in and 1 charging in the case and then I can easily have music for 10+ hours on a 5 year old device. If I threw them away today I would consider them to have not been ewaste.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
No it means they’ll essentially last indefinitely, unlike BT buds.
No, what’s happened is that we went from a single open standard for audio jacks to competing standards. And gained nothing in the process.
It’s not a pair of headphones, it’s millions of audio devices.
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My 7 years old bluetooth headphone would disagree.
And no one except a vocal minority want to keep it. There are a lot on data on that, and manufacturer make their decision on that data.
But lets ignore that, and let’s take my viewpoint as a customer. I don’t want a port I have no use for. I don’t want a DAC I have no use for. I don’t want the extra weight that comes with them.
My needs conflict with yours, so what’s the only way to make both of us somewhat happy? That’s by making the 3.5mm jack an addon, which is what any manufacturer that does not focus on music listening would do.
Ulrich@feddit.org 23 hours ago
I would love to see the data that says everyone wants wired devices only. I don’t believe you.
Why would you even care!?
😆 Buddy if you don’t want extra weight you need to talk to these OEMs about making their phones out of giant slabs of glass. A 1g connector isn’t going to make a difference. You’re being completely ridiculous.
No they don’t. They can meet both of our needs by including a jack. Simple as.
Dremor@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m voluntarily exagerating my point here for irony sake.
My needs do isn’t more important than anyone else, but I wanted to point out the selfishness of the oposite point of view by making mine as selfish. Those in favor of keeping a jack port voluntarily choose to ignore any alternative, while trying to force their need on other people.
But it is true I do not want that port back. It is redundant, has no advantages over a dongle, and it inconveniences could easily be overcome by simply adding a second usb-c port. No need for internal DAC, you’d be able to do far more than you’ll ever be able to do with a 3.5mm jack, and you’ll be able to charge it while listening to your music with a wired headphone. All that with a smaller and more flexible port.
And it would take you 5min searching the web to get good review about usbc DAC with actually good sound, even better than any internal DAC.
But to save you a click, you have the Apple one, which has good review while being able to drive almost all headphones but the most energy intensive of them.
As for the precise number, you can find them on market studies. Unfortunately they are quite pricy, and as I’m not in that field, I do not have access to them. But Fairphone does, and if they don’t bother adding that port back, they are most probably basing their decision on them.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
You can use your dozen wired headphones you already have with a $10 usb-c -> 3.5mm adapter.
Ulrich@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Tried that. Gets lost real fast.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 23 hours ago
Tried taking better care of your things? I’ve still got mine that came with my pixel 3 and my iPhone 11 Pro.