I love how they tried to tell us removing the 3.5mm jack would enable thinner phones, but somehow phones are thicker now. My Nexus 6P was half the depth of my Pixel 6.
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.
I love how they tried to tell us removing the 3.5mm jack would enable thinner phones, but somehow phones are thicker now. My Nexus 6P was half the depth of my Pixel 6.
Also, it’s 3.5 mm! How much thinner can you possibly need?!
I’m not an expert, but I think they wanted to get rid of it because it costs more in manufacturing to keep it:
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.