Alternatively, if your current phone doesn’t have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

  • Franzia
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even want one. I was initially mad that big comoanies have such power to decide what I want for me. People always say “let the market decide” but the decisions really do come from the top and are often cynical as fuck. But no, I don’t really want one.

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      1 year ago

      Even though it was annoying to me at first and I hate wireless earbuds, I realized I don’t actually want to play audio with my phone. I have an mp3 player for songs, I have a laptop for video, one of those is always a better choice.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting! I rarely see someone who has an mp3 player.

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          1 year ago

          The main reason for me is consistency. I listen to white noise for sleeping, and when I used a phone for that it would often get interrupted by stuff like the phone randomly restarting for whatever reason phones sometimes do that, or there was a software update that changed something so the volume button on the earbuds activated voice assistant which made a noise that wasn’t disabled by do-not-disturb mode, or all the other various quirks and exceptions to how do-not-disturb mode works, or the UI or functionality of whatever audio app I was using suddenly being different in a way I didn’t like because apps can just update themselves like that. Transferring files to a phone over usb can be a little involved and sometimes bug out. Then there’s that it shares a battery with the phone, which may have gotten low for other reasons, and the trend with phones of not having a headphone jack or sd card slot.

          An mp3 player only does one thing, has no network connectivity, does not update its software, and is designed around non-wireless file transfer. that makes it better than a phone for audio from my perspective. You can turn off the phone and use the mp3 player and all of your phone’s bullshit goes away.

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      I too was upset when phone makers started to remove the headphone jack, but after having a couple of phones without one, I basically realized that I didn’t use it very much and I don’t miss having it. I use Bluetooth these days anyway. I mostly listen to music on my phone while walking anyway, so having a wire that barely went from my ears to my phone was a hassle anyway.