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So stupid. What a blatant attempt at grabbing money. Headphone ports are one of the last truly ubiquitous pieces of technology still in use today. 1/8" headpho
by tomc1985 9y ago
So stupid. What a blatant attempt at grabbing money.
Headphone ports are one of the last truly ubiquitous pieces of technology still in use today. 1/8" headphone jacks work in EVERYTHING. And we want to throw that all away, because technology.
- oneplane 9y agoIsn't that what everyone said about RCA jacks and reel-to-reel tape machines?
- irq11 9y agoRCA jacks are also widely used, when size and weight aren't a factor.
- tomc1985 9y agoreel-to-reel wasn't ubiquitous, and RCA jacks are still charging strong. The rest of the world doesn't need or want to rotate from perfectly working and good stuff because they don't want their shit breaking all the time. None of these new school dips seem to care about interoperability, or the TRILLIONS of devices out there today that use those ports (everything from TI calculators to 70's stereo amplifiers to random garage kit) with their simple and easy-to-analyze signals. We are the center of this complexity fetishism, and we should be ashamed of ourselves for it.
- donretag 9y agoMy turntable still uses RCA jacks. ;)
- sli 9y agoYeah, same. The amp I used takes RCA in and banana plugs out, and it's nowhere close to old. RCA is far from dead.
- marssaxman 9y agoRCA jacks are still ubiquitous in my experience; is there some movement to get rid of them?
- sureste 9y agoI don't see it as an attempt to grab money. Seems more like a "us too" move.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoAs the third lemming said to the second lemming, "Yeah, the rush of speed and the wind blowing is interesting but why did we just follow that guy off the cliff?" :-) More seriously, tradeoffs between things like water resistance vs wired headphones? wrap around screens vs non wraparound screens? etc etc.
- staticassertion 9y ago"It's the way we've always done it" is all I hear.
- 1_2__4 9y agoThis is just a rude and dismissive comment for no reason other than smug snarkiness.
- staticassertion 9y agoI'm not trying to be rude or smug. I'm trying to extract the meaning from their statement that I feel is conveyed. When you strip down what they're saying, to me, it's just "new is worse".
- urda 9y agoThat is exactly what it is. I wonder if OP is busy defending Serial, Parallel, and even the PS/2 port to this day as well?
- tomc1985 9y agoOf those three, the only port with any kind of ubiquity is serial, and yes I would defend it even though I hate it with a vengeance, because it will let me talk to old and esoteric gear. Just like headphone ports. This new shit doesn't do that.
- urda 9y agoA well defined, and common standard that is bluetooth doesn't let you interact with hardware? I'm sorry this is ridiculous. To imply that a common wireless standard prevents you from connecting hardware basically ends the conversation here, as your point of view is refusing to see both sides.
- tomc1985 9y agoHow much esoteric hardware will bluetooth let me talk to? Can I talk my best friend's telescope? What about my coworkers oscilloscope? What about the kiln in our chem lab, or the cash register at the deli I bought lunch at? Old CANBUS ports? What does bluetooth talk to? Headphones, fitness trackers, car stereos... and aside from a few random appliances, not much else. Yeah maybe in twenty years when everything and their mother was made with bluetooth support, but that is a LONG ways away