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Sweet, can’t wait for that floppy drive on the chromebook
by __m 5y ago
Sweet, can’t wait for that floppy drive on the chromebook
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoThe difference is that nobody needs nor wants a floppy drive in their notebook whereas everybody needs a headphone jack on their phone.
- __m 5y agoLike everybody couldn’t live without a floppy or dvd drive some years ago. Some people are just slow to adapt.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoI think the issue has been beaten to death but just to recuperate the main points: * I have many headsets at home, some quite expensive, that I want to use directly, without any dongle hell * "remove something so that people use a dongle" seems to become Apple's mantra which is really irresponsible given the current situation of our planet * Apple's initial excuse "we removed the jack but made the phone waterproof" holds no water (pun intended) as other manufacturers were able to do it and keep the jack so it just makes Apple look lame * people applauding Apple need to realize we had been able to use bluetooth audio also before they removed the jack, so the only result of their decision is the limitation of our freedom of how we use our device I don't want to compare wired and wireless audio (including things like charging the batteries of BT headphones, the high cost of AirPods etc.) as these are more of a red herring and tangential to the main issue. The removal was clearly a customer-hostile move, that's all.
- cobookman 5y agoI used to think i needed a headphone jack. Then I got bluetooth headsets and I honestly wouldn't go back.
- pritambaral 5y agoBluetooth headsets work even when the phone has a headphone jack.
- me_me_me 5y agoNo...!? Wait, he is right guys. Is only we knew. On a serious note, apple dropped 3.5mm because they acquired beats and wanted to push users to buy their BT headphones. Some people even haced the first jack-less iphone to prove apple could have fitted in. I just dont understand why other companies followed apple.
- handrous 5y agoI agree that getting rid of the jack sucks, and the solution of "just buy new (expensive) bluetooth audio equipment" is bullshit. ... however, having switched to BT for audio devices myself (receiver, headphones, and of course even cheap cars have had it for years now), I need USB-A on my MacBook a whole lot more than I need a headphone jack on anything, now.
- stuff4ben 5y agoLooks like we've triggered all of the headphone jack sadists.
- acheron 5y agoHa, thought the same thing. That plus Adobe Flash support.