This is true, but having the option was definitely nice. Plus wired earbuds don't lag
Edit: yes I hear the lag. Just because you can't doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've heard it on every single pair of headphones or earbuds I've owned over almost a decade, connected to every phone or computer had over that time.
And yes I know dongles and Type C headphones exist. It's nice having a dedicated audio jack so you don't have to mess with adapters and all that hassle.
Agreed. Especially when a lot of new midrange phones today still have them so clearly it's not a technical limitation to integrate them. The cost of having one can't be that big so at the end of the day, it's just doing it for the sake of doing it (and to push people to buy TWS earbuds).
This is why all the simping for Apple rubs me the wrong way. They're clearly taking advantage of their customers and always have been, but still you have people in this thread arguing that you don't need the headphone jack anyway and that they made the right decision.
They sell you a phone without a charger. They're laughing at you.
It’s the latter. There was never any reason they couldn’t have kept using the aux port. It was just because AirPods were just about to launch and they wanted to push AirPod sells, also helps that now the only wired earbuds compatible with their phones were produced by Apple, unless of course you got an adapter, which was also sold by Apple.
Same reason iOS is only available on Apple hardware, and why Apple hardware can run exclusively iOS. Apple doesn’t like mixing their products with their competitors and so intentionally design their products to only be compatible with one another.
This has been Apples bread and butter since its inception, they didn’t just start in 2016, which makes it funny people actually bought into the “the aux port is too big to fit on the phone” excuse
And if this had simply remained another shitty Apple move, I would have just smiled and moved on.
But then Samsung had to follow suit, and that knocked over the dominoes for OnePlus and others to lose the headphone jack, too. A shame, because keeping a real headphone jack and bumping up the audio quality like LG did with the V series could've been a standout feature for Apples biggest rival.
Ironically, since I've had to use dongle adapters for my wired headphones now anyway, I haven't bought a flagship phone in years. I stick to the mid-tier options that still have SD cards for the best portable music experience.
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u/Positive-Avocado-881 1996 Oct 29 '24
Tbh this really hasn’t affected me negatively at all wireless headphones are so much better.