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Voting with your wallet by failing to purchase a phone from a huge corp like Samsung, is not something that will change Samsung's behavior, I agree. Voting wit
by margalabargala 2y ago
Voting with your wallet by failing to purchase a phone from a huge corp like Samsung, is not something that will change Samsung's behavior, I agree.
Voting with your wallet by buying a phone with a headphone jack, especially from a smaller maker like Unihertz, is impactful and helps ensure those alternatives stay around.
- striking 2y agoMaybe! But I checked Unihertz's site and it seems like their newest upcoming release, the Jelly Max, will be lacking a headphone jack too: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-max To their credit, it appears to come with an adapter. My guess is that Unihertz, among others, is probably either reselling an existing design or contracting minor changes to an existing design. So unless you're voting with your wallet hard enough to shift the tides of the entire white-label phone manufacturing industry, I think I'm still doubting the impact here.
- margalabargala 2y agoI don't think that Unihertz is reselling white-label phones; I've seen no other phone that remotely resembles theirs, and considering their form factor I don't think the innards are reusable without a lot of design rework. The lack of the headphone jack on the Jelly Max is disappointing, though.