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

  • r_se_random@sh.itjust.works
    103·
    10 months ago

    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?

    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      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.

      I guess I do appreciate that annoying iphone people can’t be pushy about playing their music through my car or audio system because they never know where that damn dongle is (no matter what they say about it not being annoying to have to use a dongle to plug their phone’s audio in). I just wish android didn’t brainlessly copy iphone here with taking away the audio jack.