I’m not saying “DOWN WITH WATER RESISTANCE!” I’m just saying it is a crap argument for removing the 3.5mm headphone jack. If the phone can be waterproof with a Lightning port, it can be waterproof with a 3.5mm jack, and saying it was removed for waterproofing is horse crap.

And the “going wireless” argument doesn’t…

With every post, you prove more and more how utterly stupid you are. Instead of waterproofing a phone for bad weather, how about you just carry an umbrella and stop things from getting wet in the first place? Jesus man, this isn’t rocket science... your dumbass is soaking wet in the rain. I get why you don’t like…

The Samsung Galaxy is water resistant, and it has a headphone jack. The jack doesn’t have to be a huge hole into the phone...it can be sealed too.

1. It’s a dongle. Dongles are stupid. Can you charge your phone while using it? No.

I don’t doubt that the market doesn’t give a shit about sound quality, but the idea that a better alternative to the headphone jack exists is marketing farce. The other reasons - more space for “something new” are so vague as to be meaningless. The only people excited about losing the headphone jack are mostly folks…

Are you saying that having a dongle is a good thing?

The headphone jack is decades-old tech. Removing it frees up a lot of possibilities for design, manufacturing and new tech.

Removing the headphone jack also means removing the headphone cable, which means even if you can activate the built-FM radio (Oh, didn’t know about that?) you can’t use it.

Yeah, now you just have to choose between charging your phone and listening to music. 9_9

Seriously, they may be old tech, but using them had almost no impact on the phone in terms of added space or complexity. It doesn’t make phones any lighter, cheaper, or even impact the battery life in a major way. For the…

Yeah, replacing the headphone jack with a proprietary headphone jack was a stroke of genius. Now, instead of cheap headphones, I need to either buy $150 wireless “earpods” or proprietary $30 headphones every time the cord goes bad on the last set of proprietary $30 headphones - currently about every 60-90 days. Apple…

And I just exlained to you how they could fit a physical port on the bottom (or better yet, the top). Two Lightning ports. A lightning port is a physical headphone port. To buy the excuse that they couldn’t physically fit a physical port (doesnt have to be a TRS jack) requires more fanboi-ism than i have.

Carrying…

Why not kill off old Wireless protocols then? Why still support 802.11a or b or even g? Lets force people to use better implementations! Lets take ethernet support out of MacOS, lets remove support for wired mice and keyboards, lets move forwards.

The headphone jack is decades-old tech. Removing it frees up a lot of possibilities for design, manufacturing and new tech.

You know, one thing that recent technological history told us, is that what is considered “better” now has no link with any actual improvement in quality over what we previously had. It is mostly about convenience, and not much else. As long as quality is “good enough” for most people, then it’s alright.

Ignorant in what way? Headphone jacks work well. That’s true. Electronics and water don’t really mix all that well. Also true. What have I said so far that is just blatantly ignorant?

The headphone jack is different for me since audio quality is an actual factor. Requiring the use of the charging port for wired audio always leads to problems.

Keep justifying paying more for less in the name of convenience.

Back in my day, people were just smart enough to not mix electrical devices and water.

It’s right in the fuckin title dude: how-the-macbook-air-changed-laptops-forever

Wow, I didn’t realize we had Apple to thank for laptops getting thinner and lighter! Here I thought it was a steady process that began almost thirty years ago. What was I thinking?