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On 2025-06-21 18:33:11 +0000, R.Wieser said:
> Marion,
> 
>> a phone without the jack can replace some of the missing
>> functionality is true.
> 
> (1)
> 
>> A pickup without the tow hitch can replace the missing functionality
>> too.
> 
> (2)
> 
>> The fact is a pickup without the tow hitch has to find 'another way'
>> (perhaps even a better 'another way') to replace the lost functionality.
>> 
>> Which is true.
> 
> Nope, its false (3)
> 
> (1,2,3) Something something premisse.
> 
>> The only logically meaningful comparison is if
>> the truck without the tow hitch could do something which
>> the truck without the tow hitch can't do.
> 
> A "logically meaningful comparison" you say ?   Really ?  I only see nonsense.

Depending on the design of the "truck" and "tow hitch" (i.e. does the 
"tow hitch" stick out beyond the rear of the truck):

   - one without a "tow hitch" can back up closer to a wall / car
     behind it than one with a "tow hitch".

   - one without a "tow hitch" can't hurt people walking behind
     it, while one with a "tow hitch" can cause people to bang
     their shins on it.

Almost any comparison (as well as survey, poll, and study) can be 
skewed to "prove" whatever someone wants it to "prove". In the end such 
comparisons are rather pointless.  :-)


In terms of the mobile phone and audio jack, most people simply either 
never used it or were tired of trying to untangle the wires on the 
earphones, so it was removed form devices (first by Apple and then 
copy-catted by most other makers). BUT many young people are reportedly 
returning to using wired earphones due to reasons like not having to be 
separately recharged and being cheaper to buy, so the audio jack 
*might* eventually make a return too, if "enough" people wanted it.

There were of course other reasons to remove the audio jack. One being 
the silliness to continually make mobile phones (and tablets) ever 
thinner, not that anyone every really complained about modern 
cellphones being too thick.




>> Which is the point, after all.
> 
> It was ?   Since when ?
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser