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It took 147 years but we finally got rid of the headphone jack in favor of superior solutions like 'sell more adapters'. :blobcatgoogly:
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@Polychrome TBF you're "supposed" to just support . You can also theoretically charge a device wirelessly through and use an adapter to connect to wired headphones or earbuds.

I always find it funny though that nobody points out that got rid of the headphone jack on the because they wanted to make their phones thinner and thinner and the headphone jack was getting in the way of that lol

@realcaseyrollins companies will just copy Apple regardless of the rational behind the decisions. :blobcatgooglytrash:
Die ein button took a decade to finally go away despite it being a silly design decision

@sj_zero @Polychrome It's actually not a bad decision. Buttons break if you use em enough, at a higher rate than screens I think.

Though to be fair when switched to haptic sensors for the home "button", that probably addressed most of those issues.

If a company reintroduced the home button, I wonder how people would respond.

@realcaseyrollins @sj_zero if smartphone manufacturers won't add haptic feedback then I'd prefer to get buttons back because I strongly prefer and enjoy feeling tactile controls under my fingers over a uniformly smooth glass.

@Polychrome @sj_zero I feel like we can have haptics without uniformly smooth glass. There should be a divot on the panel so that the home button is already slightly depressed; it makes no sense for that section of the glass panel to be completely smooth!

When I talk about "die ein button" I'm referring to the one button at the bottom of the screen that was the one and only way things were done by most phones on both Apple and Android forever. You could put that thing anywhere if you wanted a button. The back (great choice actually, later phones tried that), the side, or other options altogether like capacitive buttons or on-screen button.
According to apple, an iPhone 13 is 7.65mm thick.

Wow, that's pretty thin. Nobody could make a device thinner than that with a headphone jack.

Well, I mean except apple. Which made the iPod touch with a headphone jack that's 6.1mm thick.

@sj_zero @Polychrome They were cutting it very, very close.

But I guess they gave up on the thinness craze because the thinnest stock they sell now, the , is 7.3mm thick.

apple.com/iphone/compare/?mode

@realcaseyrollins @sj_zero I've been mostly hearing excuses related to increasing the phone's ability to survive underwater submersion but yup, this was all about the thinness craze.

Well that and pushing people to buy Bluetooth headphones and earpieces like the ones Apple just so happens to be selling.
I think it's more about the last one.

And hey, I am wearing a Bluetooth ear bud right now, they've gotten a lot better.

But I also use wired earphones a lot

@Polychrome @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero The submersion thing is also bs; my phone had a jack and goes under just fine.

@doephin @Polychrome @sj_zero Same, I previously had the which has water resistance and it had a headphone jack