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by sleepybrett 1009 days ago
People with crazy ass multi-hundred (or thousand) dollar headphones complaining about a fucking $8 dongle will never cease to amuse me.

I actually wonder if they wanted to get rid of the headphone jack not because of the space it took up (which is significant for the number of connections) but for help with 'water-proofing'.

I also feel like one of the main reasons for at least the design of the lightning connector was multi-faceted. At the time their obvious other choice would have been micro usb B, which is a terrible connector that fails often, especially in cases where it is heavily used. It would have been a support nightmare for them. The design of lightning being a thicker 'core' type connector rather than the flimsy core of a micro usb B or even usb C probably made it easier to make water resistant and cut down on hardware support concerning the connector. I know that on the few occasions when I was having problems with cable connections to an ipad or iphone i'd grab a pair of tweezers and find some lint in the female side of the connetor.
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Arainach 1009 days ago
A dongle that I have to carry everywhere, that is trivial to lose, and that blocks charging my device unless I buy an even more expensive and awkwardly shaped/sized dongle - a real winner.
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turquoisevar 1008 days ago
Great hypothetical, now I’m wondering what your real life experience is like.
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brokenmachine 1008 days ago
My Samsung S10 5G has a headphone jack and is waterproof.

There is no way in hell my next phone won't have a headphone jack either.

Bluetooth is a low audio quality latency filled shitshow, not to mention two more things to charge, and dongles are crap.

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turquoisevar 1008 days ago
I guess that’ll be your last Samsung then, considering they too dropped the headphone jack after mocking Apple for doing so.
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brokenmachine 1007 days ago
Unfortunately yes, it will be.

I like Samsung hardware but I can't go without the headphone jack.

I like large phones, so I'll probably end up with an Asus ROG phone, but they're slightly chunkier than I'd like, and I'm not really a fan of the "gaming" aesthetic.

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