I use a $30 boar bristle brush. I am not tossing that because it is “dirty.”

Not if the only brushes available don’t work with your hair like your old faithful does. It’s well worth a few minutes maintenance and a sacrificed freebie toothbrush from the dentist.

You can clean it faster than it would take for you to make a trip to CVS, what a stupid suggestion. “Wasted shampoo”...oh, you mean the literal $0.005 worth of shampoo? And you don’t have any spare toothbrushes around that are used for cleaning?

Gawker’s not shutting down, Gawker.com is shutting down. Nothing else is going anywhere.

Gawker’s not shutting down, Gawker.com is shutting down. Nothing else is going anywhere.

For truly lazy (like me), denture cleaning tablets.

We’re independent of the other Gawker sites, and that’s not changing. From a reader perspective, you shouldn’t really notice anything different in the near (and possibly far) term.

We’re independent of the other Gawker sites, and that’s not changing. From a reader perspective, you shouldn’t…

Yeah, let’s remove choice from the user and make them use a two-key hotkey to perform one of the most basic functions when browsing the web.

Because companies are always finding ways to change things that aren’t a problem. They could’ve allowed people who have an issue with the backspace action to turn it off in settings. But they ditched a near universal setting. That’s like Google just deciding it didn’t like the copy/paste shortcuts and screw everyone…

I will not. If my phone vendor stopped putting 3.5mm jacks on their phones, I would stop buying that vendor’s phones. No exceptions. I don’t care how good the rest of the phone is. 3.5mm is ubiquitous, it’s the standard, it’s simple and it works.

I initially thought that might be a plus until I saw comments pointing out the existance of thin waterproof phones with 3.5mm sockets.

Nope. I’ve spent more on headphones than I have on pocket computers. I don’t want anything else that’s going to require charging, and I like that the headphones that I have can be used in between my phone, computer and stereo. So no, the lack of a 3.5mm jack would be an automatic non-starter.

This would absolutely be true in headphones and other accessories that have an internal DAC. Same goes for bluetooth devices which already have a DAC built-in. There’s some amazing things you can do with an all-digital output signal.

I think its just another scam to make us buy a bunch of new shit. No thanks.

It’s not even that 3.5mm isn’t broken, it’s that this new method doesn’t provide any significant benefit over the analog option. I am all for new tech when it’s significantly better, but there is zero reason to change here aside from a manufactured fad that tech companies can exploit to make people buy more shit to…

I won’t touch a phone without a headphone jack. Aside from texts, calls, and poking around on the internet on the toilet, most my phone use is as a music player since dedicated players aren’t really a thing anymore. If I had to have a cumbersome dongle (wink wink ladies) on my phone then that would just add…

No way. 3.5mm is cheap and widely available. The best attributes of a low tech solution. Pry mine from my cold dead hands.

Forcing the switch from analogue to digital only is a DRM nightmare. Tech dirt just wrote a great commentary.

What about the inevitable worse DRM that comes with switching to purely digital? We switched to HDMI and got HDCP. What will be the audio equivalent once analog is no longer used? Will Apple have a pre-approved list of devices you’re able to conenct? Will they prevent 3rd party manufacturers from connecting to Apple…

There’s way too many disadvantages to this than there are advantages (which are what? just slightly better sounding audio?)

No, if the iPhone 7 comes without a 3.5mm jack I will switch to something else, I’ve been holding off on replacing my 5S until the 7 announcement but I’m not going to deal with adapters that cost $ and get lost often.