• k_o_t
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    4 years ago

    this is a macro example of the failures of growthism and it’s unsustainability, a feature for a feature’s sake: removing a 3.5 mm headphone port which is a universally useful connector to everyone, which was universally adopted by all IEMs is removed because “sPaCE sAvINg” is framed as a feature somehow, yet putting a giant coil with all the accompanying circuitry just to provide to the customer the ability to charge their phone in a much less convenient and frankly more stupid way is also a feature 🤷‍♀️

    the idea of wireless charging in it’s current form is just really dumb: at a point when a wireless charger would maybe be able to provide more movement freedom than a 3 meter cable (if that is ever going to happen) the energy waste and charger size would be tremendous

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      They’re anti-features. They at best only provide marginal benefit for the user (and often not worth the cost, monetary or otherwise), at worst they outright make the product worse, but they’re good for profit so they keep getting implemented.

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        yup, and plus there’s now two DACs and AMPs (two in phone and two in headphones)

        it’s also curious how so many people have decided for themselves that having one more device that you have to recharge every day is somehow more convenient than dealing with wires 🤷‍♀️