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[POLL] Do you use/require a headphone jack on your phone? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Alternatively, if your current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

They remove it to push people to use bluetooth, on iOS this means you wont disable it permanently and keep Apples tracking network alive. Not that nasty on Android but I suppose the same reasoning

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I should have added, that for companies that sell Bluetooth headphones it also helps drive sales for those devices, particularly that is why Apple did it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Apple even bought Beats and immediately let the brand stagnate literally just so they wouldn't have any competition in the marketing space. That kind of move basically confirms that other moves they did likely had similar rationale.

It's possible that Apple is actually aiming towards their "portless phone" dream, and this death of the jack was just a step. But I'll take it for the "we must employ the closest practice to profiteering as we can in the wireless audio space" aspect it appears to have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I am curious when they want to buy Bose, as they are pretty much the most common headphones people wear around me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Eh… I’m not sure it has anything to do with AirTags and the find my network. They weren’t a thing until a couple of years after the 3.5mm jack was removed. It’s probably a benefit now, but I suspect most people don’t bother turning off Bluetooth anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Interesting, I always keep Bluetooth off unless I'm using my BT headphones. Saves battery. I never took privacy into consideration

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Disabling things like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi has had a negligible affect on battery life for years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For sure, but I don’t think the average non-technical person messes with that at all. Privacy is technically a concern with wifi and Bluetooth on because your phone basically acts as a beacon, but there are some mitigations in place to switch mac addresses and stuff fairly regularly.