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"So what happens if I want to charge my phone (e.g. from an external battery) and listen to headphones at the same time? Do I have to use some sort of ... dongl
by rsync 10y ago
"So what happens if I want to charge my phone (e.g. from an external battery) and listen to headphones at the same time? Do I have to use some sort of ... dongle? That’s going to get silly."
What happens if you want to charge your new 12" macbook and you also need to use your cellular dongle ? They've shown total contempt for even this common, necessary use-case - why would they not show the same contempt for your use-case ?
"Admittedly, analog headphone jacks will go away at some point"
There is no reason to assume that. Only a childish contempt for "old things" and a desire to fix things that aren't broken would lead to that outcome.
- vocatus_gate 10y agoI have a strong distaste for what C.S. Lewis called "chronological snobbery;" the idea that something is worthless simply because it isn't new. Age is meaningless when evaluating technology and its function. It could be 1000 years old or 10; what matters if fulfills the requirements of the relevant use-case in an acceptable manner.
- niels_olson 10y agoHammers work great. Always have.
- rawTruthHurts 10y agoAnd still... http://static-media.fxx.com/img/FX_Networks_-_FXX/641/266/Simpsons_10_03.jpg http://static-media.fxx.com/img/FX_Networks_-_FXX/641/266/Si...
- y4mi 10y agoand yet we've got nailgun "nowadays" (though they're already ancient at this point too). people that actually need to drive in silly amounts of nails no longer use traditional hammers.
- chiph 10y agoIt's not just Apple doing this. Lenovo/Moto is removing the 3.5mm jack from their next Android phone too.