@401matthall The design choices are such that the cheapest plug-in headphones for Apple devices use the physical connection to power a Bluetooth wireless audio chip, because it's cheaper than licensing the proprietary Apple connector. To me, this is an outward symptom of a deep anti-consumer sickness. De gustibus non est disputandum: people are free to like what they like.
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Guy on my subway watching TV on his phone: volume up: we are all in *his* livingroom. -
Guy on my subway watching TV on his phone: volume up: we are all in *his* livingroom.@Knitronomicon @futurebird @401matthall This is what we lost when Apple ditched the TRS barrel phono jack.
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Guy on my subway watching TV on his phone: volume up: we are all in *his* livingroom.@futurebird @401matthall I wonder if there are saints out there that just walk around all day with an unopened packet of emergency earbuds in their pocket, on the chance they might meet someone whose wireless audio battery died, and thereby save the whole bus/train by handing them over.