• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are headphones that use the USB port. Headphone jacks are kinda dead tech at this point.

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        1 year ago

        Credit card reader hooked into headphone jack is a dead tech too now that the rest of the world have moved on from mag stripe to chip and pin.

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        1 year ago

        comfortable headsets, audio without batteries

        These are both solved via USB headsets tho?

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            1 year ago

            If you buy this phone, you’re exclusively buying it for sustainability, so you’re already accepting an inferior product.

            There’s no reason to cling to headphone jacks as if those are somehow a worthwhile technology.

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      1 year ago

      Audio quality loss and latency are built into Bluetooth. Its only advantage is not having a wire.

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          1 year ago

          Oh, you mean USB headphones? TBH, way overly complex compared to analog with (albeit negligible) audio quality loss, which still works with legacy tech going back decades. It’s like arguing a bicycle is obsolete because motorcycles exist.

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            1 year ago

            If bicycles and motorcycles competed for the exact same role, with an opportunity cost allowing only one, how would bicycles not be obsolete?

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                  1 year ago

                  You did, because you’re assuming that you can only choose one or the other. Even though it’s been demonstrated that the headphone jack does not require much space, can even be added to phones that don’t have it (check out Strange Parts on yt) and does not have any drawbacks.

                  That opportunity cost is not a thing.

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                    1 year ago

                    If you can add it to a phone that doesn’t have it already, I’m not sure what the problem is, in your view.