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"Forces" didn't do it. The headphone jack on my phone is doing great. You can have one too if you choose to.

• bitwize 5y ago
  Most if not all cellphone manufacturers have decided to discontinue 3.5mm headphone jacks on their flagship, if not lesser, models. So at some point your choices will be to either use a potato (often with a locked bootloader) or muddle through as best you can with an old phone that cease receiving security updates, including kernel updates, in the very near future. It's the same forces that decided all TVs should be "smart" and have made dumb TVs difficult and sometimes expensive to obtain, especially if they are of any quality. The manufacturers want you to buy whatever drives their own and their partners' profit margins, and the buying public is too apathetic to care.
  • recursive 5y ago
    Phones seemed like they were basically solved a decade ago. Everything is so over-specced, that I'm sure a potato would handle everything I could conceivably do with a phone. Except battery life. That still sucks. (or maybe it's worse than it used to be)