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Why isn’t that good enough?

Why isn’t people liking something they were swindled into paying way too much money for not good enough? Do you really have to ask that?

It’s absolutely about the average consumer

It’s absolutely not. It’s not about what the consumer wants at all. These companies didn’t remove them because customers wanted them removed. They removed so that they couldn’t use them anymore.

And how does that help the competing manufacturers who also removed their 3.5 jack?

Because they also made buckets of money removing them. Every fucking one of them removed the jack and then immediately introduced new Bluetooth headphones that were several hundred dollars. Even Fairphone went down this hole.

No one makes money selling $7 wired headphones.

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the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

they were swindled

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

It’s absolutely not. It’s not about what the consumer wants at all.

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

These companies didn’t remove them because customers wanted them removed.

Customers want thin, light, and good water resistance. Removing a port barely anyone uses was an easy way to achieve that and the vast majority of customers don’t miss it.

Are you beginning to understand how things you don’t buy still affect you yet?

So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.

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- artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.
  
  No we’re not. I’ve already addressed this, please scroll up.
  
  Customers want thin, light, and good water resistance.
  
  We already had several models with all of those things
  
  Even the iPhone Air is thick enough to fit a headphone jack.
  
  For the third time, none of this is about what consumers want.
  
  So we’re back to “everyone is stupid except for me”.
  
  If your strategy is to repeat the same nonsense over and over without addressing my rebuttal then you can go ahead and stop replying to me.
  
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  - the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    No we’re not. I’ve already addressed this, please scroll up.
    
    Yes, we are. If you believe people have to be tricked or manipulated into valuing different features than you do, you’re just using a lot of extra words to say “everyone is stupid except for me”.
    
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    artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    It’s not what I believe and it’s not what I’ve said. I was very clear about what my position and you’re just intentionally misrepresenting it. You’re being blocked now, goodbye.
    
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