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just to play devil's advocate.. you don't see how it benefits people that use wireless headphones and are glad the phone has more space inside for say.. memory

by cschep 9y ago

just to play devil's advocate.. you don't see how it benefits people that use wireless headphones and are glad the phone has more space inside for say.. memory/battery/dissipating heat for a faster chip, etc? we technologists have a very weird love/hate with progress. deep need to revolutionize and move forward and make progress and not do what our parents did and then.. they touch the wrong port and OH MY GOD :)

xg15 9y ago
Yet memory, battery, heat, etc are vague, quite technical arguments while 99% of headphones not working is a decidedly non-technical argument.
tensor 9y ago
So my car doesn't have bluetooth. I use a headphone adapter thing. I had a bluetooth one that failed after less then a year and was quite expensive. My option I guess is to play the roulette and buy another bluetooth adapter brand hoping it works better? Or maybe people think I should buy a new car? Obviously I need to buy new headphones, which sucks because mine are nice. And then these bluetooth headphones run out of batteries frequently, you need to remember to charge them, batteries don't usually last more than 3-4 years either so you are rebuying all your headphones every 3-4 years now? I'm all for improved technology, but for me this is a step strictly backwards. It doesn't improve quality, it's far less convenient, and far more expensive.
- bliss 9y ago
  Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle juggling - which would be not too bad a solution in a semi-permanent place like your car
- bliss 9y ago
  Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle juggling - which would be not too bad a solution in a semi-permanent place like your car
Nullabillity 9y ago
The extra battery capacity that will be used for.. having to keep BT active 24/7?
PhasmaFelis 9y ago
Phone design isn't zero-sum. It's not a matter where you can have extra RAM or a headphone jack, choose only one. You could have both and make the phone a bit bigger. You could have neither and make it a bit smaller. In either case, the difference is not going to be detectable in daily use.

by cschep 9y ago

xg15 9y ago

Yet memory, battery, heat, etc are vague, quite technical arguments while 99% of headphones not working is a decidedly non-technical argument.

tensor 9y ago

So my car doesn't have bluetooth. I use a headphone adapter thing. I had a bluetooth one that failed after less then a year and was quite expensive. My option I guess is to play the roulette and buy another bluetooth adapter brand hoping it works better? Or maybe people think I should buy a new car? Obviously I need to buy new headphones, which sucks because mine are nice. And then these bluetooth headphones run out of batteries frequently, you need to remember to charge them, batteries don't usually last more than 3-4 years either so you are rebuying all your headphones every 3-4 years now? I'm all for improved technology, but for me this is a step strictly backwards. It doesn't improve quality, it's far less convenient, and far more expensive.

bliss 9y ago
Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle juggling - which would be not too bad a solution in a semi-permanent place like your car
bliss 9y ago
Apple's phone comes with a little adapter to connect up a 3.5mm jack - can't charge at the same time though, but I'm pretty sure there are solutions for that, with a bit of dongle juggling - which would be not too bad a solution in a semi-permanent place like your car

Nullabillity 9y ago

The extra battery capacity that will be used for.. having to keep BT active 24/7?

PhasmaFelis 9y ago

Phone design isn't zero-sum. It's not a matter where you can have extra RAM or a headphone jack, choose only one. You could have both and make the phone a bit bigger. You could have neither and make it a bit smaller. In either case, the difference is not going to be detectable in daily use.