• inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol
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    1 year ago

    I never quite understood the headphone jack thing. It’s a nifty thing to have but an adapter is a one time purchase. It seems like nowadays lack of headphone jack is just a minor inconvenience.

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      1 year ago

      Because they removed something that was convenient to try and force people to either spend more money on adapters or buy Bluetooth headphones.

      And if you need to charge at the same time? That’s yet another adapter.

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          That is true, and you can get USBC dac cables for existing headphones that have the ability to swap cables.

          But it’s still yet another thing you have to buy when your existing stuff already worked fine, and it still ties up the USBC port so unless you wirelessly charge you still need an adapter.

          It’s just less convenient and as far as I am concerned removing the jack has offered no benefits to consumers.

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      1 year ago

      Or just get some wireless headphones and be done with it.

      Worth it just so you don’t knock the wired ones off your head when you move about, or yank the cables out of them and have to buy new ones.

      I can see the point of wired if you’ve got some nice audiophile kit, but a phone is not that.

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      Its not convenient unless you need to use it extremely frequently and can keep track of it because of that.

      I barely use my adapter so when I do need it, its another 15 minutes to find it or realize it got thrown out or something. Its just not convenient. Convenience would be leaving both ports, or for headphone companies to split the end of the cable into usbc, lightning, and audio jack