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It's an option, sure. It's just far less convenient or practical than my current ability to plug a simple wire into my phone and then into a jack in my car. Rem
by imgabe 10y ago
It's an option, sure. It's just far less convenient or practical than my current ability to plug a simple wire into my phone and then into a jack in my car. Removing that option in favor of soldering a device into my car stereo is not desirable.
- mikeash 10y agoOK? Nobody is saying that it must be desirable for you. It is merely being presented as a possibility in case the tradeoffs do make sense to you. I find this to be a very puzzling part of hacker culture. Any suggestion that doesn't fit the personal desires of the commenter must be attacked, not merely ignored or politely rejected.
- monknomo 10y agoI hardly think imgabe and my posts constitute an attack. I'd call them a polite rejection of an idea. Ignoring an idea in the context of a discussion about the idea seems pretty weird. Disagreement is part of discussion, and disagreement is not, in and of itself, impolite. Losing a universal port on one of the most common phones doesn't really seem like an "option." It hasn't happened yet, so it's still a "possibility" but it is a possibility in the sense that the future is unknowable, not in the sense that it's something you have a choice in (beyond abandoning iphones). It's something Apple wants to do, but it isn't like a person could go buy an iphone with the "backwards compatible audio" option