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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Someone should saw off the legs of the techbros that came up with the idea of removing the headphone jacks from phones. Just like the headphone jacks, legs are technologically "superseeded" by cars and electronic wheelchairs.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't mind if they replaced TRRS with a better connector. I get that the jack is a large part and it's difficult to seal against water ingress. The wiper contacts on it are also unreliable, and the plug doesn't release well when your cord snags.

Multiplexing headphones with my one and only charging port is absolutely the worst possible answer.

(Did i forget to mention that I want it to be an open connector? One that any vendor can make without Apple's permission?)

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(Did i forget to mention that I want it to be an open connector? One that any vendor can make without Apple's permission?)

Apple ditched Lightning last year. All iPhones from the 15 forward are USB-C.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lightning and USB-C are both equally terrible headphone plugs.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Sure, in that the port is far more versatile than it needs to be for audio output. I’m not arguing otherwise.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 4 points 3 months ago

I don’t remember the last time I needed/missed 3.5mm

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Meh, I haven't really missed it as much as I expected. The one and only (pretty minor in my case) issue I've run into is not being able to charge the phone while connected to the car's stereo. Though it wouldn't surprise me if you could just use a usb-c splitter to do that.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Fair point, at least they should give us two USB-C ports, at least on the flagship models.