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> Oh, wait: now I want to listen to music while I fall asleep, but also charge my phone so it’s not dead in the morning. That’s a different, more expensive spli
by syntheticnature 8y ago
> Oh, wait: now I want to listen to music while I fall asleep, but also charge my phone so it’s not dead in the morning. That’s a different, more expensive splitter dongle (many of which, I’ve found, are poorly made garbage).
Or a wireless charging pad plus regular adapter.
(I'm a fine one to talk; I have an OG Pixel, and I use my headphone jack entirely for the headset functionality when doing a conference call while remote. A sub-$10 wired headset gets the job done... for now)
- blhack 8y agoYeah but that wireless charger should be an added convenience, not an anti-user move to get you to buy more crap. It feels like a recent thing to me, but companies (especially tech companies) have gone from: "We will make the best product we can, and you will pay us for it." (Or perhaps some graph where marginal profit is the highest) To "We will make the worst product we can get away with making because you don't have a choice." The focus seems to have gone from what customers want to what customers will tolerate.