• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    Audio jack isn’t an audiophile thing, it’s a “I don’t want to pay 100$ for headphones thing”

    As for thickness, it doesn’t increase thickness. It is simply false, someone even retrofitted a whole audio jack into an iphone.

    Nobody makes q difference between a 4mm and a 4.5mm phone, even if tgey were feature and price parity.

    The reason you are giving here is made up marketing by the phone industry so they can sell earbuds.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I mean, yes. It is about marketing. I just think there are more people who think wires are annoying than people losing their earbuds. For every person who loses BT earbuds every 3 months, there’s a person with the same pair for 3+ years who is perfectly happy with wireless quality. Companies don’t care about that. They care about decisions that will reduce costs and increase their profits, and Fairphone desperately need profits. Making phones is idiotically expensive.