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The replacement is Bluetooth audio. This is definitely where things are heading even if not everyone sees it yet. And it's definitely a better place. If you can
by cstejerean 10y ago
The replacement is Bluetooth audio. This is definitely where things are heading even if not everyone sees it yet. And it's definitely a better place. If you can stream audio from the Internet to your phone there is no reason you can't stream audio from your phone to a speaker or headset.
- Oletros 10y ago> The replacement is Bluetooth audio. You're assuming that the only source of audio is your smartphone And not taking into account the quality of the audio and the fact that you need another device that must be charged
- mikeash 10y agoIf the rumor was that Apple plans to remove the headphone jack in favor of Bluetooth, then I might buy this. But that's not the rumor. Everybody is saying that Apple plans to remove the headphone jack and replace it with audio through the Lightning port. If the long-term goal is to make everything wireless, why would they do this? Even with Bluetooth as the replacement, the advantages are pretty small. Again, both floppy disks and optical discs were starting to become severely limited when Apple replaced them, and the trend was clearly that they would become more so. A floppy drive today would be almost completely useless even if media were plentiful and every computer could be counted on to have one, because it can't store enough. Optical discs are better but still heading that way. The headphone jack is as useful as it ever was and will be just as useful in 20 years as it is today.