For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
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The idea that people don't need headphone jack seems pretty weird. Phones removed the 3.5mm jack, so people had to buy Bluetooth headphones, because now there is just 1 port on the phone.
And now, because of this change, you're looking back and saying that that's a not needed feature.
Does that sound right?
I mean, I love my bluetooth headphones but also bluetooth sucks. Anyone who says bluetooth is a reliable spec we should longterm trust our ability to connect audio devices together with is horrifically deceiving themselves. Bluetooth is an absolute train wreck of a technical spec, and it can be further broken at any point because it is just software that can be "updated" with "new features" that break backwards compatibility.
To call bluetooth a replacement of the 3.5mm jack which has a stunning, decades long established compatibility with other devices is a slap to the face of consumers even if most of those consumers don't use their 3.5mm jack anywhere as much as bluetooth audio. The point is there is NO good reason that device makers had to take away the option of a 3.5mm jack other than to take away an alternative option. How much does it cost to stick an audio jack in a phone? Does it add like.. what $1.25 to the cost of the phone all totaled? People are way to willing to believe tech companies removing features is an innocuous side effect of progress rather than a constant probing to see what bullshit they can get away with in order to introduce monetizable friction into the experience of using a device.
people seem to forget that external dacs exist. Every device manufacturer makes them.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MU7E2AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-headphone-jack-adapter
https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/usb-c-to-mini-audio-jack-adapter-3-5mm-18
Oh yeah, we just forgot. Because everyone loves adding a dongle between phone and cable.
It honestly isn't really noticeable. The better sound quality of the external dac is however.
I mean when phones had 3.5 mm jacks, the DAC was built-in.
Lots of times they are pretty bad though, maybe because of the interference they are subject to inside of a phone
I mean when phones had 3.5 mm jacks, the DAC was built-in.