Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
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Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#2I've been needing to replace my phone for a while, and been holding out for an iphone 7.
If it doesn't have a headphone socket I will just get something else.
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#3it's going to be fine guys
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#4Changing any connector you had in place for a decade or more is user-hostile and stupid and yet it's been done for decades. Don't worry, we'll all be fine.
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#5John Gruber's response (http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/headphone_jacks_are_the_ne...
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> Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading.
What's the advantage to removing the headphone jack? Is the jack some sort of bottleneck to sound quality that nobody noticed until now? I really don't see a benefit in removing the headphone jack, now or anytime in the foreseeable future.
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#6You aren't forced to buy a new iPhone, better yet the one you have probably doesn't really need to be upgraded at all. Apple will understand you're displeasure if you vote w/your wallet; they won't care about your displeasure if you tweet them or complain in the comments section.
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#7Folks buy new headphones for their phone all the time. Just get the right one.
Headphones with wires fail all the time, so wireless is arguable better for most folks most of the time. The arguments about sound failures are cherry-picked to ignore that. Also phones are compromised by every hole in the case (water, dirt, static etc). So now there will be fewer catastrophic failures.
And now you can walk with your phone in your pants pocket or purse (or anywhere), without a wire dangling!
{edit: explain}
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#8John Gruber's response ( http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/headphone_jacks_are_the_ne... ): > Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading. What's the advantage to removing the headphone jack? Is the jack some sort of bottleneck to sound quality that nobody noticed until now? I really don't see a benefit in removing the headphone jack, now or anytime in the for…
It's too big (at least according to those "slim" worshiping designers).
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#9John Gruber's response ( http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/headphone_jacks_are_the_ne... ): > Should the analog headphone jack remain on our devices forever? If you think so, you can stop reading. What's the advantage to removing the headphone jack? Is the jack some sort of bottleneck to sound quality that nobody noticed until now? I really don't see a benefit in removing the headphone jack, now or anytime in the for…
I think the argument that is made is that it's stopping phones becoming thinner - which looking at the size of the jack on my Nexus 5X, I can believe.
However, personally, I'll live with a thicker phone if it means I can have a larger capacity battery, let alone a 3.5mm jack
Re: Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and stupid
#10You aren't forced to buy a new iPhone, better yet the one you have probably doesn't really need to be upgraded at all. Apple will understand you're displeasure if you vote w/your wallet; they won't care about your displeasure if you tweet them or complain in the comments section.
You aren't forced, just coercively "suggested" into it, via updates pushed out by the carrier that inevitably make your phone run slower than a Celeron laptop from the early 2000s