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It's 2016 - let's simplify and push headphone makers to innovate and stop making headphones with cord. I'm really going to enjoy this change.

dTal 10y ago
You can already buy wireless headsets and they already work with all phones. You want to take away the choice because... ?
kahrkunne 10y ago
You're never going to get the same audio quality through wireless. Not even close.
- Salgat 10y ago
  What? Bluetooth is digital so it comes down to the DAC/AMP used, which can easily surpass what's in a phone.
- pil4rin 10y ago
  Never?
aaroninsf 10y ago
I'll mention since I didn't see a /s, there are certainly environments and use cases when self-powered headphones would be convenient. But there are also many many circumstances where the last thing you want is self-powered, radio-driven, digital headphones. Some of the concerns that would make this not work for me, personally: - integrated rechargeable batteries (nonremovable) - radio interference with sensitive recording paths - de facto compression - the necessity of integrating your amp into a miniature form factor Sound recording and review and critical listening in environments where you don't have plug-in ('mains') power on hand, possibly for months at a time, and need absolutely uncolored access to your recordings, often with high quality amps... ...these are very different from consumer convenience listening e.g. while commuting or sitting at a desk. There's room for both in the marketplace happily... ...and need for both. So I am among those who think a trend towards dropping analog microjacks is truly terrible. The case for phones is 'OK' but the more they become both a model e.g. for light-weight laptops, or laptop replacements themselves (e.g. in 'phablet' or pad format) the more risk there is of innovating us into a very limited corner (in which a lot of battery life is spent on mandatory DRM no less...)
- mstolpm 10y ago
  But you could always use an analog-to-lightning adapter. Or buy a phone with an analog jack. Dropping the jack on one phone doesn't equal to not being able to use wired headphones at all in the future. And DRM is irrelevant as long as an analog adapter exists.

dTal 10y ago

You can already buy wireless headsets and they already work with all phones. You want to take away the choice because... ?

kahrkunne 10y ago

You're never going to get the same audio quality through wireless. Not even close.

Salgat 10y ago
What? Bluetooth is digital so it comes down to the DAC/AMP used, which can easily surpass what's in a phone.
pil4rin 10y ago
Never?

aaroninsf 10y ago

I'll mention since I didn't see a /s, there are certainly environments and use cases when self-powered headphones would be convenient. But there are also many many circumstances where the last thing you want is self-powered, radio-driven, digital headphones. Some of the concerns that would make this not work for me, personally: - integrated rechargeable batteries (nonremovable) - radio interference with sensitive recording paths - de facto compression - the necessity of integrating your amp into a miniature form factor Sound recording and review and critical listening in environments where you don't have plug-in ('mains') power on hand, possibly for months at a time, and need absolutely uncolored access to your recordings, often with high quality amps... ...these are very different from consumer convenience listening e.g. while commuting or sitting at a desk. There's room for both in the marketplace happily... ...and need for both. So I am among those who think a trend towards dropping analog microjacks is truly terrible. The case for phones is 'OK' but the more they become both a model e.g. for light-weight laptops, or laptop replacements themselves (e.g. in 'phablet' or pad format) the more risk there is of innovating us into a very limited corner (in which a lot of battery life is spent on mandatory DRM no less...)

mstolpm 10y ago
But you could always use an analog-to-lightning adapter. Or buy a phone with an analog jack. Dropping the jack on one phone doesn't equal to not being able to use wired headphones at all in the future. And DRM is irrelevant as long as an analog adapter exists.