| >They must be getting rich of those $19 headphones :p. Artificially limiting the available options coincidentally encourages some to buy the $300 headphones. Selling some $300 headphones is better than none. >Also, if they were so intent on killing the jack for money, why do they still have it on MacBooks and even upgraded it with an amplifier that supports high-impedance headphones? They will remove it when they can. The laptop frog is not yet boiled enough. >Better waterproofing and re-using the space sound like perfectly valid reasons. Phones haven't gotten thinner or more waterproof despite removing the headphone jack. My Samsung S10 5G from 2019 is the same thickness and has IP68 waterproofing just like the iPhone 15, but does have a headphone jack. Coincidentally, it's the last flagship Samsung with a headphone jack. Phone companies are just regurgitating the same shit year over year. The SOCs take up the same space and batteries should be improving, so I don't accept space saving as a valid reason, especially when they haven't become slimmer. I wish all the companies would just make the best phone they could instead of nickel and diming their customers. But Apple is definitely the worst offender, and does their best to normalize so much anti-consumer stuff. |