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How have consumers let companies get away with "premium" phones being the ones with fewer features?

criddell 5y ago
Maybe they don't mind putting the adapter on their headphone cable? If you aren't switching devices a lot, it's a one-time operation that's pretty easy to manage.
lanstin 5y ago
Because it is, statistically, an easier and more pleasant experience. I really get tired of taking twenty minutes to configure a bunch of settings for each marginally novel piece of tech I acquire.
- 0xedd 5y ago
- davidmurdoch 5y ago
  I've never had to configure my wired headphones before in my life. What kind of headphones do you have?!
GraemeMeyer 5y ago
I think of it like USB A ports. You miss it for a few years. And then you don't. And the products generally continue to improve along other lines
- orhmeh09 5y ago
  I’ve never had the bit snap off a USB A cable when it was plugged in yet it’s happened to me twice with USB C. I’ve also had to replace ports due to the wear on the cable futon not being able to stay in place. Furthermore, I’m less certain if a cable I have lying around is going to be fully compatible. I also have to keep USB A around so there’s this big growth in the number of cables and adapters that are necessary. In almost every way that is meaningful to me USB C has been a downgrade. I can’t think of anything that improved my experience beyond saving a minute when I plug the laptop into only the monitor and not the power cable too.
- spopejoy 5y ago
  Haha what?? Look all over this thread, Bluetooth has just Stockholm-syndromed everybody, and the phone manufacturers are only too happy to drop the jack. My anecdata is that as an exclusively wired headphone user, my shit ALWAYS works. Meanwhile my bluetooth zoom/discord counterparties are consistently making remote work a drag because: - I can't hear the beginning or end of their sentence (some kind of bluetooth gating/noise cancellation that doesn't work) - Connection drops - 10-25 seconds of start-of-call fumbling (like in TFA) - No backup if their P.O.S. bluetooth airpod whatever is really dying or even just having a fight with their device that the user gives up in disgust. I have a backup wired $5 headset ready to go anytime (and use it like once every two years).
Gigachad 5y ago
Because I don't miss anything about old phones. Yes sometimes the airpods can work a little funny, but on a whole, they are so far ahead of the wired headphones I used to use that I can completely forgive the issues they have. Yeah it was cool to put an SD card in my phone, but it never worked that seamless and my phone now has more storage than I'll ever use.
- davidmurdoch 5y ago
  Old? Phones still come with headphone jacks. They just cost less (and have slower hardware )

Maybe they don't mind putting the adapter on their headphone cable? If you aren't switching devices a lot, it's a one-time operation that's pretty easy to manage.

lanstin 5y ago

Because it is, statistically, an easier and more pleasant experience. I really get tired of taking twenty minutes to configure a bunch of settings for each marginally novel piece of tech I acquire.

0xedd 5y ago
davidmurdoch 5y ago
I've never had to configure my wired headphones before in my life. What kind of headphones do you have?!

GraemeMeyer 5y ago

I think of it like USB A ports. You miss it for a few years. And then you don't. And the products generally continue to improve along other lines

orhmeh09 5y ago
I’ve never had the bit snap off a USB A cable when it was plugged in yet it’s happened to me twice with USB C. I’ve also had to replace ports due to the wear on the cable futon not being able to stay in place. Furthermore, I’m less certain if a cable I have lying around is going to be fully compatible. I also have to keep USB A around so there’s this big growth in the number of cables and adapters that are necessary. In almost every way that is meaningful to me USB C has been a downgrade. I can’t think of anything that improved my experience beyond saving a minute when I plug the laptop into only the monitor and not the power cable too.
spopejoy 5y ago
Haha what?? Look all over this thread, Bluetooth has just Stockholm-syndromed everybody, and the phone manufacturers are only too happy to drop the jack. My anecdata is that as an exclusively wired headphone user, my shit ALWAYS works. Meanwhile my bluetooth zoom/discord counterparties are consistently making remote work a drag because: - I can't hear the beginning or end of their sentence (some kind of bluetooth gating/noise cancellation that doesn't work) - Connection drops - 10-25 seconds of start-of-call fumbling (like in TFA) - No backup if their P.O.S. bluetooth airpod whatever is really dying or even just having a fight with their device that the user gives up in disgust. I have a backup wired $5 headset ready to go anytime (and use it like once every two years).

Gigachad 5y ago

Because I don't miss anything about old phones. Yes sometimes the airpods can work a little funny, but on a whole, they are so far ahead of the wired headphones I used to use that I can completely forgive the issues they have. Yeah it was cool to put an SD card in my phone, but it never worked that seamless and my phone now has more storage than I'll ever use.

davidmurdoch 5y ago
Old? Phones still come with headphone jacks. They just cost less (and have slower hardware )