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Originally Posted by PB PM
I love how Apple fanboys call this innovation, as if Apple did something great. It was a cash grab made in collusion with headphone manufacturers who wanted to find a way to increase margins, it sure wasn’t done to improve anything for consumers.
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Care to provide some actually evidence for your conspiracy theory? We sell
less headphones now, not more. Broken cables sold
way more headphones than jack-less iPhones could ever compete with. Also, we have a service department, and water ingress through the headphone jack is one of the most common destroyers of phones. These aren't "fanboy" issues; they are real world use cases. Funny, I don't hear anybody whining that
Samsung is beginning to phase out headphone jacks. Wonder why that is?
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Originally Posted by PB PM
Did Apple make some half decent wireless headphones? Yes.
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Half decent headphones? Airpods are loved, adored, and dreamed over by happy customers all over the world. They're much better than half-decent. They sound good, and they're incredibly easy to use.
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Originally Posted by PB PM
They could have done so without removing the plug and forcing users to buy toss away items that will be in a landfill in two years because the batteries are dead.
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One day, everything will be wireless. I prefer my phone in my pocket without a stupid wire running up to my ear.
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Originally Posted by PB PM
toss away items
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You mean, kinda like the phone? or the computer? or the printer? or the Walkman? or any other consumer electronics device made since the beginning of time?