We used to have earbuds that don’t need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn’t get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k

  • sumguyonline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7127·
    2 months ago

    All this romanticizing the past, but who members having to play with the jack until it was just the right in and out to get full stereo. I member. Who members breaking a wire for the left speaker only, so you only have right audio. I member

    • AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      643·
      2 months ago

      The real problem is that new phones dont have it, while there are actually people who use it.

      To be honest i dont use it either, but i still prefer having it. Just in case you know? Phones without it did not get cheaper after all…

      • exocortexEnglish
        17·
        2 months ago

        There are still phones that have it. Sometimes even pretty good ones. It’s just that they are not advertised so heavily. I recently learned about HTC U23 or 24 or something. Now I feel dumb because I never bothered to check because I always thought all good phones don’t offer headphone jacks anymore.

      • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
        106·
        2 months ago

        I think you meant new iPhones* don’t have it. There are new models coming out every year with a headphone jack.

        You can still get a Sony Xperia 1 VI, or a 5 VI, or a bunch of mid range devices with headphone jack. There are offerings with headphone jack, so if you want one, you can get one.

        Now the problem is we love to complain but not put our money where our mouth is. Has the lack of headphone jack made the iPhone sales suffer? No, they’ve gone up. Does Samsung sell fewer Galaxy’s? Nope. Is the Xperia range a massive success because they have a headphone jack? Not by any stretch of imagination…

        …because most people don’t actually care enough to vote with their wallet instead of yapping away while they buy a jack-less phone anyway.

        • moriquende@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          2 months ago

          That’s because getting a headphone jack is lower in the list of priorities than, say, having a great camera. If I could get my current phone in a version having a headphone jack, believe me that I would. I just wasn’t prepared to compromise my camera quality for it.

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      2 months ago

      You’re the second person to say this but I’ve been using the headphone jack for like 3 decades and haven’t encountered this issue.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I remember getting horrible feedback in my car’s stereo when I tried to simultaneously charge my mp3 player from the car’s cigarette lighter adapter and run an aux cable. Somehow this resulted in a feedback loop that ruined the audio quality. I had to either charge or listen to music, not both.

    • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Having lived through that period but absolutely never experiencing this I wonder… Could the (port on the) devices just have been shitty?

      I remember crackling when turning the plug and mono when not being inserted properly, though

    • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
      49·
      2 months ago

      Are you purposely saying “remembers” wrong or do you think the actual word is “members”?