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USB-C has already been a huge improvement, so the article lands kind of flat. Maybe they were heavily invested in stuff with lightning ports or something, so t

USB-C has already been a huge improvement, so the article lands kind of flat. Maybe they were heavily invested in stuff with lightning ports or something, so they didn't notice 5 years ago when everything else started to consolidate.

lm28469 2y ago
Meh, I was more or less forced to buy a USB c only pixel phone, for my headphones to work I had to buy 4 dongles in 6 months so far, one worked but had constant static noise in the background, one straight up didn't work, one died after 3 weeks, I'm now using an apple dongle which works fine excepts it only outputs 50% of the volume on android so in a lot of places it's just not loud enough And yes I refuse to buy e waste bluetooth headphones that cost 5 times the price of wired ones, kill the battery 5 times faster and have to be trashed every other year because of glued/soldered tiny ass batteries
- TheBozzCL 2y ago
  That’s why I bought myself a portable headphone DAC. I went for the Qudelix 5K. I can turn any headphone into a bluetooth headset, or connect them via USB-C or Lightning with the right cables.
  - lm28469 2y ago
    That's 100 euros for yet another gadget to carry with yet another soldered battery that will be a pain in the ass to replace when it inevitably dies
    - TheBozzCL 2y ago
      Well I don’t know what you expected then. Buy a phone with a headphone jack next time, they’re still some out there.
- Clamchop 2y ago
  USB C isn't really at fault for the removal of the headphone jack, other than incidentally by making it reasonable for things as small as a phone to host USB devices at all.
LUmBULtERA 2y ago
Yeah, I find the complaint now kind of odd. I'm now able to use USB C for almost everything except a few older devices that we'll eventually fade out (a baby monitor... that's about it). I'm happy with the situation over all.
thiht 2y ago
I bought a random USB-C cable and power brick at IKEA 1 or 2 years ago and I’ve used it successfully with my Kindle, iPad, MacBook Pro, security camera, electric clipper, PS5 and Switch Pro Controller, as well as Switch itself, and probably a few other devices I’m forgetting. So yeah, from my point of view, USB-C just works. I have an iPhone 12 so no USB-C yet but I can’t wait to upgrade (maybe next year) to finally have USB-C everywhere. I don’t care that not all cables support every feature or whatever, I don’t feel like it’s a really common issue in practice.

lm28469 2y ago

Meh, I was more or less forced to buy a USB c only pixel phone, for my headphones to work I had to buy 4 dongles in 6 months so far, one worked but had constant static noise in the background, one straight up didn't work, one died after 3 weeks, I'm now using an apple dongle which works fine excepts it only outputs 50% of the volume on android so in a lot of places it's just not loud enough And yes I refuse to buy e waste bluetooth headphones that cost 5 times the price of wired ones, kill the battery 5 times faster and have to be trashed every other year because of glued/soldered tiny ass batteries

TheBozzCL 2y ago
That’s why I bought myself a portable headphone DAC. I went for the Qudelix 5K. I can turn any headphone into a bluetooth headset, or connect them via USB-C or Lightning with the right cables.
- lm28469 2y ago
  That's 100 euros for yet another gadget to carry with yet another soldered battery that will be a pain in the ass to replace when it inevitably dies
  - TheBozzCL 2y ago
    Well I don’t know what you expected then. Buy a phone with a headphone jack next time, they’re still some out there.
Clamchop 2y ago
USB C isn't really at fault for the removal of the headphone jack, other than incidentally by making it reasonable for things as small as a phone to host USB devices at all.

LUmBULtERA 2y ago

Yeah, I find the complaint now kind of odd. I'm now able to use USB C for almost everything except a few older devices that we'll eventually fade out (a baby monitor... that's about it). I'm happy with the situation over all.

thiht 2y ago

I bought a random USB-C cable and power brick at IKEA 1 or 2 years ago and I’ve used it successfully with my Kindle, iPad, MacBook Pro, security camera, electric clipper, PS5 and Switch Pro Controller, as well as Switch itself, and probably a few other devices I’m forgetting. So yeah, from my point of view, USB-C just works. I have an iPhone 12 so no USB-C yet but I can’t wait to upgrade (maybe next year) to finally have USB-C everywhere. I don’t care that not all cables support every feature or whatever, I don’t feel like it’s a really common issue in practice.