3.5mm plugs are literally 1950s technology, the manufacturing cost is virtually zero, instead now they’re including up to four cameras on some phones which are way more expensive and complex to install, take up more space and might be used less often than a headphone jack, so I don’t buy it. This is capitalists we’re talking about. The idea is that you’ll buy an overpriced adapter or more expensive wireless headphones instead. And you’ll replace those headphones more often because the BT Audio codecs will keep getting better (to achieve the same lossless sound quality as a wired pair) and the battery will die out.
They already did, even if it’s simple logic that poor people in the global south consume the bare minimum therefore their carbon footprint is insignificant, the media has brainwashed the masses to the point where they can’t reason that and instead go for “oh my god we are so many we must reduce the population but first start with the third world please”
I see, thanks!