[knaik94]

I have expensive headphones and I don't care to have one more thing I have to charge daily. My daily hours of use of headphones means that I'd have to buy two pairs of headphones and switch them halfway through the day to charge. Wireless headphones are still very far in terms of audio quality, compared to wired headphones. More importantly, for certain applications, the audio latency due to bluetooth is unacceptable. A single device might be okay, but it's not across all of the devices I use.

Most importantly, I want to charge my phone while using headphones at the same time.

Phones aren't getting faster enough for me to care about having the newest phone anymore. If my laptop and my tablets and my tv remote, and game controller all have 3.5mm jacks, buying a phone without one is a dumb decision. Why would I intentionally pay for a worse daily experience?

Usb c to 3.5mm adapters all have had worse quality than a native port. A phone lacking a headphone jack isn't a feature, it's a way to generate a new revenue stream.

I know I am in a very small population of hours spent listening to audio in a day, probably top 5%, but I believe my phone should make my life easier, not harder. Bluetooth still isn't anywhere close to having feature parity to the 3.5mm headphone jack. If it was, companies would have dropped headphones jacks from their laptops.

Dell xps 13 plus, released feb 2022, doesn't have a headphone jack. No laptop since has followed this decision, not even apple.