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If you follow the brand fans on social medias on release, there’s always a crowd asking if they plan to bring the jack back. It could be a vocal minority, but it could very well also be your biggest brand advocate & enthusiast. When I have asked ‘tech normies’ for anecdotes, many have said they bought Bluetooth purely in the aftermath of their latest phone upgrade removing the jack & having not invested in otherwise good-quality IEMs, etc. took an opportunity to choose to get some while having complicated & mixed pros/cons for them as often pointed out here. The biggest difference was in the past, that was always a user choice to get one or the other, has now been forced into a non-choice especially in phones where the time-tested 3.5 mm audio jack is still ubiquitous in other apparatuses. …But I’m sure the phone OEMs didn’t mind the uptick in buying wireless earbud bundles for the problem they created.