Stripe was not the first to do something like this with an audio jack, but honestly it shows how important/useful open and standards can be. It’s even more a s

Stripe was not the first to do something like this with an audio jack, but honestly it shows how important/useful open and standards can be. It’s even more a shame to see them replaced by proprietary or extremely complex standards. For example the complexity of web standards has pretty much reduced browsers to only a very small number of browser engines.