The other reason is that a headphone jack takes up internal and external space and offers another way for moisture to get in, and they figured headphones could be made USBC.
And fall out of my ears every time I move my head.
And that I buy separately from the phone.
And that are like 10x pricier than the wired units I already have, that work just as well, possibly better, and when they fall out of my ears *are attached to something and thus easily retrieved*.
I never bought the buds, I knew from wired experience that nothing would stay in my ears. I’m not gonna spend a bunch more $$ on already overpriced hardware and then *add on* something I know will get lost, just because an earphone jack takes up more space (in way bigger units!!)
Yeah, i could never use the apple stuff without silicone add ons to stay in my ears. I had years of great use of Bose wired then bt buds that were connected with a behind the neck wire. Sadly they axed those too. Now i use soundcore which are relatively cheap and really good w long battery
You can buy wired earbuds with a USB-C connector for about the same price as 3.5 mm connector earbuds used to cost, which is significantly cheaper than virtually all wireless ones.
I make sure all my personal phones still have one, but my work phone doesn't and I gotta say it bothers me a lot. I bought an adapter but it's still annoying.
Can confirm. Have used one for my Pixel since getting it ~6 months ago. Sounds great has held up. Keep it in the sack my over the ear headphones came in with the line out cable.
I'm old school, I want to go back to the days of removable batteries, 3.5mm jacks and the ability to boot custom ROMs without breaking the use of certain applications (banking etc.)
This was a strong thing for me, as was being able to use my own microSD card, and I get both those with my Nord. I also wanted replaceable batteries, but it couldn't be done any more.
I get shitty ten dollar Bluetooth ear buds with a wire that runs between them off clearance racks that work well enough. I'll just end up breaking anything nicer.
Plain analog headphones generally sound better and are cheaper than wireless. I have Bose and Sony noise canceling, Airpod Max, etc., but keep going back to a simple pair of Grado's for all day wearability.
Same in a I've got wireless earbuds with this new phone but also have dropped these small wireless ones -> panjc a couple times. That and it's like the old tech adage of keep it simple & stable. Removal to force adaptation was just greed.
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But also to sell you bullshit.
And fall out of my ears every time I move my head.
And that I buy separately from the phone.
And that are like 10x pricier than the wired units I already have, that work just as well, possibly better, and when they fall out of my ears *are attached to something and thus easily retrieved*.
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Everyone else did it because Apple did it.
I make sure all my personal phones still have one, but my work phone doesn't and I gotta say it bothers me a lot. I bought an adapter but it's still annoying.
But yes bring back the audio jacks my phone is not to skinny
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I used to carry extra cheapie earbuds to hand to people who were pissing me off making everyone listen to what was playing on their phone
cant really do that with Bluetooth
It was like 2 generations of phone for the whole industry to switch
And then the phones were not weirdly thin anymore