• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I thought everybody’s using AirPods these days? or at least Bluetooth, everybody has transitioned to Bluetooth, right?

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I try Bluetooth every couple of years but it still sucks so much.

            It amazes me how after 30 years and a million spec improvements, it still fails so often for me at basic things. Connecting consistently (and quickly), pairing consistently (and quickly), etc.

            I know it’s partly just some terrible, cheap implementations of Bluetooth that are to blame, but I don’t care. I plug in headphones, they work. That’s what I want headphones to do. Not have to worry about charging, and being dirt simple are an added bonus.

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Does it bother you that much if your phone has a headphone jack that you don’t use?

      Does it take away something from your experience? You always have the option of just… not using it.

      I always charge my phone wirelessly but I’m not gonna go and say I prefer a phone without a charging port. That would just be stupid.

      The only reason headphone Jacks got taken away was so you’d be forced to buy Bluetooth solutions. Like AirPods.

      • rainynight65@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        The only reason headphone Jacks got taken away was so you’d be forced to buy Bluetooth solutions. Like AirPods.

        Totally. That’s why they never made adapters and never included cabled earphones with lightning plug. It was AirPods or nothing.

        • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Wow. That’s nice of Apple. Just giving away these new adapters and lightning earphones. Huh? People had to BUY them? As in spend more money because their previous products no longer worked with their new phone?

          • rainynight65@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            I have one Lightning-to-Jack adapter that was included with my old iPhone 8, and two pairs of EarPods with Lightning plug that were included with subsequent models.

            Besides that, the claim was that the headphone jack was removed to force people into buying AirPods. But that claim falls down when there clearly were other, non-Bluetooth options.

          • rainynight65@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            How old are you? And doesn’t your second question contradict your first?

            If you were being serious: iPhones have had headphone jacks until 2016, the iPhone 7 was the first to come without one.

          • toastal@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Original iPhone was an iPod Touch with a SIM card & the ads were all about black silhouettes with white earbuds in. You let Tim cook & you start losing functionality as Apple transitions into an ad platform with all the data they have harvested.

    • Sprawlie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I still miss it so much. I’d take bottom or top, just to have that hole back. I have some amazing headphones, but they’re like 20+ years old and now gathering dust.

      I brought my favourite set of noise cancelling headphones with me after switching phones before I realized I had no devices to plug it into anymore.

  • Hurculina Drubman@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    bottom, so I can charge it and have headphones plugged in at the same time while it’s in my pocket.

    I had the last generation iPod nano, and none of the clip-on cases I could find would put it upside down like the way I preferred my phone so I cut it with an exacto knife to reverse it

  • Laurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I prefer the headphone jack to be Bluetooth, honestly… Haven’t had a physical port in many years and found I didn’t miss it at all

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Psst… imma let you in on a secret. You can have a headphone jack, AND Bluetooth. They’re not mutually exclusive.

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lucky. I have collected a fair bit of audio gear that use very frequently. The dongles dislodge from the charging port too easily to be useful. I do use BT dac/amps but most of the time I’m in too much of a hurry to bother and I rely on the jack almost entirely.

  • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I love when phones place the usb on the top. I have no idea why the bottom is standard, nobody uses docks anymore.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Anywhere but the bottom half of the phone. I hate that the charging port is on the bottom. It’s in the way when I need to use my phone while charging.

  • rainynight65@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Ever since I’ve gotten some decent noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones, I don’t really care where the headphone jack is or even if there is one. It happened way too many times that the cable got snagged on something and yanked the buds out of my ears, and I’m well past the age where I had the cable under my shirt and the earbuds dangling in front of me all the time. Especially when running or otherwise exercising, I don’t miss the cable one tiny bit.