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I'm voting with my wallet. My household will never have a phone that is missing the 3.5mm jack.

by mark-r 8y ago

chillacy 8y ago
This comment is bound to age poorly ;) Unless 3.5mm headphone jacks will be around in 50 years who knows.
- MarkSweep 8y ago
  They were already around 50 years ago: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphone-headphone-jack-history-1.3755120 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphone-headphone-ja...
- buboard 8y ago
  i mean, people buy turntables nowadays. new ones, not just vintage and antiques. Audio equipment tends to age veery slowly
  - akvadrako 8y ago
    That's not how it worked. Turntables became obsolete then they become popular years later because everything about them is inferior.
    - buboard 8y ago
      but also because people have old vinyl disks which they can revive. and people complained about the cold sound of CDs forever. it's not like tech, where you don't really see people crying over their burnt memory chips. Especially for audio connectors, i don't think it is a coincidence that the 3.5mm jacks and its fatter brother have not changed since forever. people wanted to use it with their older stuff.
EnderMB 8y ago
That's becoming increasingly more difficult on the Android side, with so many high-end vendors looking to remove the headphone jack too. Hell, OnePlus ran a campaign eight months ago laughing about others removing the headphone jack, only to remove it six months later on the 6T. I bought the OnePlus 6 because I wanted a good phone with a close-to-stock OS and a headphone jack. Nowadays, I think you'll struggle to get both, and I think that we're one manufacturer away (Samsung) away from the market joining Apple and Google in getting rid of the jack. I'll support it for as long as I can, because I use the jack every single day, but I fear that in three years time the high-end market will have left us behind.
- lagadu 8y ago
  LG is keeping the minijack too for now, unlike Samsung, whose rumours indicate that are dropping it next year.

I'm voting with my wallet. My household will never have a phone that is missing the 3.5mm jack.

by mark-r 8y ago

I'm voting with my wallet. My household will never have a phone that is missing the 3.5mm jack.

chillacy 8y ago

This comment is bound to age poorly ;) Unless 3.5mm headphone jacks will be around in 50 years who knows.

MarkSweep 8y ago
They were already around 50 years ago: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphone-headphone-jack-history-1.3755120 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphone-headphone-ja...
buboard 8y ago
i mean, people buy turntables nowadays. new ones, not just vintage and antiques. Audio equipment tends to age veery slowly
- akvadrako 8y ago
  That's not how it worked. Turntables became obsolete then they become popular years later because everything about them is inferior.
  - buboard 8y ago
    but also because people have old vinyl disks which they can revive. and people complained about the cold sound of CDs forever. it's not like tech, where you don't really see people crying over their burnt memory chips. Especially for audio connectors, i don't think it is a coincidence that the 3.5mm jacks and its fatter brother have not changed since forever. people wanted to use it with their older stuff.

EnderMB 8y ago

That's becoming increasingly more difficult on the Android side, with so many high-end vendors looking to remove the headphone jack too. Hell, OnePlus ran a campaign eight months ago laughing about others removing the headphone jack, only to remove it six months later on the 6T. I bought the OnePlus 6 because I wanted a good phone with a close-to-stock OS and a headphone jack. Nowadays, I think you'll struggle to get both, and I think that we're one manufacturer away (Samsung) away from the market joining Apple and Google in getting rid of the jack. I'll support it for as long as I can, because I use the jack every single day, but I fear that in three years time the high-end market will have left us behind.

lagadu 8y ago
LG is keeping the minijack too for now, unlike Samsung, whose rumours indicate that are dropping it next year.