• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Hard disagree, you might not use them, but they are critical in many settings.

    Credit card reader, comfortable headsets, hooking up to other systems, audio without batteries, etc. There are a good number of people who still use headphones! (Including most people in South Asia…)

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      1 year ago

      Credit card reader hooked into headphone jack is a dead tech too now that the rest of the world have moved on from mag stripe to chip and pin.

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      1 year ago

      comfortable headsets, audio without batteries

      These are both solved via USB headsets tho?

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        1 year ago

        Downsides of usb-c headphones:

        1. Bluetooth security risk surface, exposes your phone to more attacks.

        2. Most/all phones have a single usb-c port. Charging and using headphones difficult

        3. Usb-c port placement is awkwardly on bottom of phone while must headphone jacks are on top of the phone. Plugging in your headphones on the bottom of the phone with a dongle is awkward.

        4. The entire process of using a usb-c dongle or using Bluetooth headphones makes the entire system more complicated. KISS (keep it simple). The more complexity there is that can go wrong, the worse the experience. If I’m taking a important conference call, I want my audio to just work.

        5. Bluetooth audio is delayed compare to wired

        6. Bluetooth Microphone standard is quite poor, the sound quality when talking on a group calls is bad compared to wired.

        Not directly related: the whole point of removing the headphone jack was to sell airpods. First apple, then android, and even fair phone. Each time the jack is removed to push sales of the branded Bluetooth ear buds. It’s a user hostile move.

        https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-airpods-success

        The excuse may be to save money, Space, water rating, but the reason is increased sales.

        I personally still use a pixel 5A which had a headphone jack only because it’s the B tier phone for markets where people are less likely to also buy the airpods.

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          1 year ago

          If you buy this phone, you’re exclusively buying it for sustainability, so you’re already accepting an inferior product.

          There’s no reason to cling to headphone jacks as if those are somehow a worthwhile technology.

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            1 year ago

            I just outlined my use case, very concisely I thought. It may not be your use case. But please don’t dismiss my use case because you don’t use it yourself. Its only polite.