I just need the headline. This is 100% what I wish I had in my damn phones.
I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
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Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#222YES! I could have written this exact article. It rings true daily. Such a massive PITA, the number of dongles I've bought / lost, etc. is unreal.
I remember using my adapter only once but I still manage to lost it!
I swear, these things are so easy to misplace.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#223100% agree with this. Its pretty interesting that I almost never use headphones anymore now because bluetooth headphones require a few things: 1) preplanning/foresight in charging the headphones 2) refer to number 1. I have 2 really nice pairs of bluetooth headphones, and almost NEVER use them. Guess what pair gets used almost daily? my 15 year old beyerdynamic DT770s. 3.5mm or ¼" plug, closed back. Not really the mo…
Absolutely. Any headphone i use has to go through a converter.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#224USB-C audio wouldn't suck if:
a) there was a standard protocol for a USB-C DAC that everyone supported (across desktop and mobile OSes) such that an end consumer could purchase a USB-C DAC and be reasonably confident that it'll work universally,
b) phones came with more than one USB-C port, such that playing and charging at the same time wouldn't be an issue
If anything, USB-C should've been a revolution, pushing the DAC closer to the speakers can help improve audio quality and getting rid of the DAC in the phone helps to level the playing field between devices. But the OEMs dropped the ball hard.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
You write like Neil Stephenson. I'd love to subscribe to your newsletter, if you've got one.
OK, since I like to write, have more so lately, have started a newsletter before and was planning to start a similar one soon, I'll bite. Except if Poe's law comes bite me and it wasn't in earnest (checked your comment history and you don't seem to make trashy comments like me), what'd you like to read about in this style? Technology, technological change, society, languages, editors, open source? What periodicity wo…
Just finished Snow Crash!
It's really good; as I was reading it I would stop and check the date it was authored. It holds up very well.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#226Meanwhile normal people outside the tech and HN bubble have moved on and forgot what a headphone jack is.
Citation needed.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
AirPods require neither of these things. The case is always charging them. You want to use your beyerdynamics? Fine. Your phone came with an adapter for them.
I have had mixed results with AirPods on a 2015 MacBook Pro. The earbuds themselves are great, the case is great, but they just don't know how to bluetooth with the laptop of the same company. Every time I put them on, the hunt for a BT connection starts. Sometimes I have to reboot my computer to make them work. It's such a shame that a behemoth like Apple can't make BT work between two of their products. In fact, it…
Try resetting the bluetooth card in your mac, I was having problems with mine taking several attempts to sync (and my magic mouse point blank refusing). Shift-option then click on the bluetooth icon, debug, reset bluetooth card.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could they have build the iPhone XS with a jack? Because if they couldn’t, I’d argue that everyone who owns one benefits from it not having a jack. The real annoyance for me isn’t the lack of the jack, it’s that they haven’t also replaced the jack on the MacBook line yet.
Why couldn’t they build it with a jack? Due to the thickness? I’m typing this out on my iPhone 6 (which I will keep until it disintegrates because of its headphone jack) and it is plenty thin. I think only Apple themselves are obsessed with thin devices.
Heh. No. It's about DRM. Incrementalisim is powerful. They just pretend it's not.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#229The missing jack is all about expanding sales for Apple. Had they not bought Beats we would still have the jack. By removing the jack they can sell a hell of a lot more headphones to people by telling them that the new tech will make the music sound so much better.
Previously 150 dollar headphones seemed expensive. Now 150 dollar beats feel like the norm, even cheap.
We won't be getting the jack back. Good for Apple but sucks for suckers -- sorry I mean consumers.
Re: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use another brand phone? It couldn't really be simpler, free market and all. Wireless things suck, I've never considered bluetooth for anything and I really, really hate my bluetooth keyboards. They have nice keys and petite builds, but I haven't used any of them for years now (one Apple, another also with great build). Can't be bothered for batteries, can't be bothered with bluetooth for different linux distros, des…
> They're not not noise, even if not perceived (microwaves for instance make me want to leap out of the room, it's like a screeching feeling.) I don't want to second-guess you, but that sounds more like a high-frequency sound from the microwave mechanism than anything directly caused by microwave radiation. Can you hear the "mosquito sound"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKl_sTh0oHE
So this is the sound I hear every time an old TV is on!
Thank you.