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From: Andrews <andrews@spam.net>
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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:18:36 -0000 (UTC)
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*Hemidactylus* wrote on Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:10:22 +0000 :

>> 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 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.

It's Apple's fundamentally basic marketing strategy to limit users' choice.
By restricting users' choices, Apple ends up making *lots of money*.

Chris is correct.

He has the choice of either bluetooth or wired.
You do not.

The fact is there is nothing a phone without this basic functionality of a
headphone jack can do that a phone with the headphone jack cannnot do.

The *only* difference - is your choices are limited, Hemidactylus.
Chris' choices are not.