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To answer (3), there are a lot more uses for headphones than listening to music on one's phone. Switching to USB-C means asking all those device makers to switc
by tomc1985 9y ago
To answer (3), there are a lot more uses for headphones than listening to music on one's phone. Switching to USB-C means asking all those device makers to switch from relatively simple analog hardware to a new connector with an established protocol, which means more (unnecessary) logic, which means more costs. I suspect it will be a long time before this stuff become ubiquitous for the low-end.
- falcolas 9y agoAudio over USB C is analog as well, no chips required. 4 wires in the USB C socket just become the analog equivalent.
- tomc1985 9y agoI stand corrected then. If the only thing that changes is the physical connector then that is not nearly as bad.
- AstralStorm 9y agoA physical connector that cannot rotate and will break and tangle cables.
- falcolas 9y agoI think the biggest problem people (well, those who really care about the quality of the music) will identify will be that the audio DAC will go from being a (generally) distinct component of the phone to an integrated component of the USB-C driver. I believe this will likely lower the quality of the DAC (as the rest of the chip will be mostly, if not all digital components) and the overall music as a result. IOW, you may still want to have a discrete DAC dongle for your USB-C phone.