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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: did this group die?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:52:41 -0000 (UTC)
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*Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote:
>>> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/2/2024 1:27 PM, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>> 
>>>>>> But Android owners upgrade phones more often than iPhone owners.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-official-android-phone- 
>>>>>> owners-upgrade-more-often-than-iphone-users/ar-AA1seZ2t? 
>>>>>> ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=acd4d3617ea848eb984eda2761425876&ei=28
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Explain that
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here are some reasons that I can postulate:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Android device makers tend to introduce new features at a more rapid 
>>>>> pace than Apple does for the iPhone. Apple meters out new features 
>>>>> slowly to encourage updates but many of those features are not 
>>>>> sufficiently attractive to warrant an upgrade.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 2. Apple removes features from their devices causing many iPhone owners 
>>>>> to delay upgrades because they don't want to lose features.
>>>>> a)What are the best selling iPhones of all time? The 6/6+ and 
>>>>> 6s/6s+, the last two models that had a headphone jack.
>>>> 
>>>> The SE (1st gen) was the last model launched with a headphone jack. Plus
>>>> was significantly cheaper than either the 6 or 6s. So why didn't it have
>>>> the highest sales figures?
>>>> 
>>> For those too behind the times to use Bluetooth headphones there are these
>>> Lightning adaptors that provide ancient headphone jack capacity. With
>>> Bluetooth I can walk around the house untethered to my phone. Progress.
>> 
>> There are downsides to bluetooth. 1) you have to remember to charge them,
>> 2) the bluetooth can be unreliable, 3) sounds quality is worse, 4) most are
>> disposable as battery replacement is unviable. 
>> 
>> I have a perpetual problem where I'll be happily listening to my phone at
>> home, but then my wife pulls into the drive in the car and then my phone
>> automatically connects to the car. Why isn't there a way to prioritise
>> devices?
>> 
>> In five years I'm on my third pair of BT earpods. In the flip side, I still
>> have wired headphones that are decades old which work perfectly well.
>> Progress?
>> 
> I have higher quality headphones not “pods”. And they hold a charge for
> quite a time. Not being tethered is progress as is not using an auxillary
> cable in my car. Bluetooth has been reliable for me and sound quality ok.
> Again one can use an adaptor cable for the jack into headphones

Thereby losing the ability to charge the phone at the same time as
listening to something. 

> or aux in a
> car or into RCA adaptors for a home entertainment center. I’ve done the
> latter, playing my phone through a cable into a home system. The loss of a
> headphone specific hole in the phone is a non-issue seized upon by local
> miscreants for their trolling agenda. 

Although I agree the issue is overblown the usual crowd, I disagree it's a
non-issue. 

If it's so unimportant why do all macs still have a headphone jack?