Tbf, you can a very cheap android phone for around $100 USD, the cheapest iPhone starts at around $400. Also, Apple developer account cost $99 per year, Google developer account cost $25 one time fee, so the cost is gonna trickle down to the user, sometimes you find free apps on google play and then you look at apple and it cost a few dollars, its most likely due to the recurring costs to maintain a developer account.
Also, Apple doesn’t allow torrent clients, You can’t use firefox with ublock origin on iOS.
(But then again, these advantages could also go away in a few years… 👀)
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Removable batteries are coming back, as they become mandatory in the EU in 2027. Or you can already get one with a Fairphone (which also has SD card slot). As for the headphone jack, I’m afraid it won’t come back. Bluetooth alternative es are far better these days, and good adapters (like Apple one) are barely more than $10.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Disputable.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
I liked the whole not having to charge headphones thing more than anything.
tomiant@programming.dev 1 day ago
I liked being able to accidentally brush up against my headphones without them turning off my music.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i’m a musician, have a trained ear and even with mild tinnitus have yet to see any BT audio transmission that matches the fidelity of cables.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That aspect did pop into my head but I am not qualified to comment as I never use any wireless headsets, nor are my ears trained enough for fully appreciating hi-fi quality.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
Missed a few things.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Not a major drawback, IMO.
True, but I haven’t lost any in the something like 6 years I’ve been using them.
What’s your threat model? Who’s going to be attacking your security via your headphones? What happens if they succeed?
IMO this is a pretty ridiculous drawback, it’s like saying “wired headphones are worse because the wire can be used as a garrote”, which is true, but not an actual drawback for 99.999% of people.
So what?
IMO the drawbacks of wired headphones are:
The headphone wire is a potential personal security vulnerability as a ninja can use it to garrote you.The drawbacks for a wireless headset are:
potustheplant@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
First of all, you’re forgetting that the actual problem is that the headphone jack does not require you remove bluetooth from the device. The issue here is giving user less options and more costly “solutions”.
Git gud. It’s not that hard to roll up the cable so that it doesn’t tangle. Worst case scenario, you can buy a small case.
Run the cable through your shirt. Problem solved.
Use headphones with a replaceable wire. That way you can use a cable with or without a mic or use different lentghs. Hell, you can even make your own and they’re cheap. Even if the wire isn’t easily replaceable, most headphones can be fixed with a bit of patience and a soldering iron.
You’re just doing mental gymnastics at this point.
Or you can, I don’t know, unplug the headphones for 2 seconds.
Redundant. Also, put your phone in your pocket and stop whinin’.
My man, are you allergic to speakers? You’re cooking in a kitchen. Lose the headphones.
Skill issue. Run your wire underneath your jacket and you won’t have this “”“problem”“”.
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you wish for ANC you’ll need a battery anyway, and most people do want ANC these days
I’m loosing my wired headphone far more often, for a simple reason: them having a battery allows me to make them beep, given they are near, of course.
Sure, and so are wired headphone as they act as an antenna, broadcasting to anyone with an appropriate receptor anything you say and/or hear.
As for the implementation vulnerabilities, at least it can be patched.
Sure, but is it that much of a problem? It would take years (if not decades) of constant listening to even use a dollar of electricity for wireless headphones. Even if you factor the data transmission from the phone into that.
And wired headphone are not energy neutral either. They works by pulling energy from the phone battery.
I prefer the wireless headphones ease of use to headphone I have to untangle every time I want to use them. I keep my wired ones for home uses.
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
BT 6.1 introduced Randomized RPA (Resolvable Private Address) which should help with some of the security issues. That said I wouldn’t expect to see headphones implementing 6.1 for quite some time. It just came out in May.
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll give you that, but my bone conduction headset lasts a few days with the amount I use
Meh. I’ve put corded earbuds in my pocket and probably worn them out faster that way. Bluetooth headsets I tend to leave on (much to my wife’s annoyance) and that makes them last longer in my experience.
Aha, that van outside must be tapping into me listening to The Dandy Warhols! I knew it! (In all seriousness, if security is that critical you probably shouldn’t be doing whatever it is over WiFi, which is pretty much unavoidable with a phone)
Are we really talking about saving energy here? That’s like… Moisture in the bucket levels. Not even a drop in the bucket
Wildmimic@piefed.social 1 day ago
I agree with you, even if you are downvoted. I've wrecked more in-ear buds by (non-replaceable) broken cable than i can count, while i'm on my 3rd bluetooth headphone in about 10 years - i lost none of them, and the second one is still around as backup.
The security is a thing that can be patched if it pops up and is only an issue if your OPSEC differs strongly from the common citizen, and the energy argument comes across like a purity test - the light in my fridge probably uses more energy.
I would never go back to cable, especially since noise cancelling doesn't work without a battery anyway - and i am very unhappy without noise cancelling.
Also, i have a power bank where i can use 21600 Li-ion Battery cells as power source - on travels i take a few batteries with me, and even if i find myself for weeks without power, i will have it whenever i need it.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have two devices, one is my phone, and one only plays music. I only ever use my phone as my phone, and my music device as my music device in my car, and both run over Bluetooth.
It is a crapshoot as to which role my car will assign to which device. Sometimes I have to put my phone in airplane mode so that the car won’t try to assign it the media player role in Bluetooth settings. I’m not impressed.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
check the Bluetooth settings on your phone. on mine, I can disallow roles that a peripheral could get, like media audio, phone calls, etc
Patches@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
That has a lot more to do with the car itself.
If you ever want to talk about a shit OS…
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Bluetooth alternatives aren’t better, that’s laughable.
You cant buy beyerdynamics DT-990s with Bluetooth, you cant get Sennheiser HD 490 Pros with Bluetooth, you cant buy Audeze LCD-5s with Bluetooth. I could go on and on but you get the point. Good headphones don’t use Bluetooth.
The nice headphones a lot of us have had for years, well before the headphone jack was removed don’t have Bluetooth.
So when you say they’re better 1. You’re wrong. And 2. You’re missing the point.
If you prefer Bluetooth, fine, but phones with headphone jacks still have Bluetooth. You’re only ok with it because it doesn’t effect you and I think that’s appalling.
Imagine phone manufacturers remove the ability to use Bluetooth headphones and I say “that’s fine, wired headphones are better anyway”. It’s not about that, it’s about removing your freedom to choose and it should NOT be tolerated
Archr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You are right. But for >99% of users Bluetooth is a perfectly sufficient connection format for headphones.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
I work in IT and pairing bluetooth is sometimes so finnicky i give up for a few days. I can accept that I’m not that great at IT but I don’t think 99% of people don’t have these problems.
And it’s not a thing you do one time, most of these gadgets need re-pairing every sone time for whatever reason.
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are a lot of very good Bluetooth headphones from Bose, Sony, and the like. If you take a look at lab tests, most of lf them got a frequency response pretty close to the ideal curve, and ANC helps a lot to isolate outside noises that would drown out the music on wired headphones.
But I do agree about choice, just not on the blind refusal of using USB-C adapters. That’s unfortunate that they removed it, but it has some good reasons. A headphone jack wasn’t made to be waterproof, and if some managed to make some of them waterproof-ish, it is often by enclosing it into its own little sub-enclosure, with a good short-circuit protection (because even a tiny water drop in there mean a short), both of which takes place.
Same goes for the DAC, we got so far into miniaturizing it, and inside interferences are so high now with new technologies, it probably wouldn’t be viable anymore to have it inside the phone itself. Even larger device, like the Steam Deck, have problems preventing interferences on the headphones jack, so that must be an even bigger problem on something as tinny as a phone 😅
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
citing bose and sony vs sennheiser audeze and beyerdynamics, dude, you don’t know headphones
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Phones that run Linux and have a headphone jack:
volla.online/en/volla-phone-x23/
furilabs.com/shop/flx1/
puri.sm/products/librem-5/#tech-specs
pine64.org/devices/pinephone/
2026 will be the year of the Linux phone!
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
Hmmm. Then I would need to figure out how my authenticators would work. I have like 3 different ones for a total of like 18 accounts. It’s annoying as all hell
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’d love for that to be the case, but without a lot more polish and the ability to run Android apps in some kind of sandbox I don’t see it happening.
dil@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
need more ppl to adopt it while its shitty for that point to ever come
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
or 2027. Or some Chinese variant of android on Chinese/Taiwan phone that allows sideloading, perhaps with alternate playstore and maps. I don’t yet understand how draconian this actually gets implemented, but death of android/google (to me) is possible.
tibi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, bluetooth is not better. Bluetooth has latency which is bad for anything that needs realtime audio, like video games or any kind of live performance. It also runs on 2.4 like every other electronic Wireless devices making it prone to interference.
USB C is also inferior because you need dongles which increase complexity of your setup, it’s more prone to failures. Like audio cutting off every x minutes because connection is just slightly loose or other electronic gremlins. I’m saying this having just had a gig and the MD’s phone we relied on for the metronome started acting up during the performance not recognizing the dongle until a reboot.
Audio jacks were simple, analog, worked perfectly fine and delivered high quality audio. What we have now is overengineered slop that is less reliable and more expensive.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I never had one of my wired earbuds fall off the platform at the train station and disappear in the gravel, nor did I ever have isues with forgetting to charge them, let alone their case being brolen and not charging at all. And if I want to switch my favourite headphones over from my PC to my phone, I’m really glad my old phone still has a jack.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bluetooth is better than…it used to be? Because I promise you there is no earbud on planet earth better than my open back cans.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 21 hours ago
saying “bluetooth alternatives are far better these days” ignores the uses cases for cable.
Kuranashi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still have a headphone jack. Rare but Androids with them exist if you go out of the mainstream bullshit.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
So what if Bluetooth are “better”?
Still no reason to not have both.
int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have a fp4 and it is VERY annoying to not have jack(I don’t wanna use bluetooth because jack works, doesn’t need a battery and is low tech), so now I only listen to music on my computer, but I’m planning on making an mp3 player with a raspberry pi pico.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The Apple adapter is very good. I used one on my Linux machine that had a finicky built in port. Obviously works great on a phone. If you need one in a car at least MagSafe/qi is available now but not ideal.
I don’t love the idea of “removable” batteries being mandated if that means like the batteries in an old flip phone. We needed them then because the capacity was so bad and power banks didn’t exist. I would prefer that manufacturers require them to be third party replaceable instead.
Dremor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They have to be user removable, not hot-removable. Take a FP6 as an example, you have to remove a couple of screw to get to it, then another couple to remove it. What are forbidden will be glued batteries and back panels.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s convenient to swap a battery but I feel like my phone is more likely to get soaked than need a battery swap at any time in the next two years. The FP6 is IP55 rated.
Looks like FP6 battery is £45 and iPhone 14 is £60-£90 depending where you buy it. I know I can get that done in the next hour or two where I live, so I don’t see it as a big deal.
The replaceable camera feature is more compelling because a broken front iPhone camera can effectively brick the device.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Fairphone is too big, i don’t want a phablet in my pocket
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They won’t become “removable” like in ye old Nokia days. It’s not like you can carry extra batteries and just swap them on the go.
They just have to be swappable without special tools or specialist equipment.