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Spunkie ◴[] No.44357974[source]
Still no headphone jack makes this a nonstarter, lame.
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OkayPhysicist ◴[] No.44360560[source]
How often are you listening to music on your phone while it's charging? (because otherwise you can always just attach an adapter onto your headphones to make it USB-C). Seems like a weird hang up.
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GoatInGrey ◴[] No.44360648[source]
So when I reach the trailhead and realize that my dongle is back at home, I can still use my headphones to listen to a podcast as I hike.

Or maybe I'm out in public with others and want them to listen to something but my dongle is at home so I now need to play audio over the speakers in a public setting.

It comes down to having choice and not being funnelled into overpriced wireless earbuds. Which Fairphone began selling with the release of the Fairphone 4, their first phone without the jack.

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OkayPhysicist ◴[] No.44360714[source]
What else are you plugging your headphones into? Again, the pitch here is leaving the dongle basically permanently attached to the headphones, effectively turning them into a set of usb-c wired headphones. I was hesitant about abandoning the headphone jack, too, until I realized that the higher-end phones I'd effectively locked myself out of charge in 10% of the time.
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1. Topfi ◴[] No.44361216[source]
> What else are you plugging your headphones into?

My Macbook, my work laptop, my e-piano, my Note9, my BTR7, ...

Don't get me wrong, I understand far too well why no new flagship offers the jack anymore and wireless/USB-C is truly amazingly convenient for the vast majority of users, even audio quality wise, but sadly we are still very far from either being universal, either because the standard is still 1/8 or 1/4 inch or latency is key (in the case of instruments both). Also, USB-C ports are finite so using the small 3.5mm port is often preferable. So just keeping the dongle plugged in, sadly not an option. Apple Dongle DACs are easily lost too, ask me how I know.

Am very far removed from the mainstream customer and accept that in any case, my dream phone would likely bankrupt whoever was dumb enough to bankroll it, so I'll just deal with the compromise.

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2. noisy_boy ◴[] No.44363038[source]
Seems like there is a market for wired headphones that have built-in split 3.5 and usb-c ends.