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What's the real reason that laptop batteries are made not-accessible?
james_s:
--- Quote from: cortex_m0 on December 10, 2021, 04:05:44 am ---The success of AirPods is illustrative of my point. A customer who is reluctantly buying a product does not buy a $159 accessory from the same manufacturer.
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Bullshit! I can introduce you to someone who reluctantly bought a set of airpods after reluctantly buying a new iPhone to replace the one that broke. Would that change your mind? Are you going to assume he is the only one?
james_s:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on December 10, 2021, 02:26:05 am ---No different from the VGA port disappearing from GPUs, since it got replaced by superior standards.
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It's a lot different. VGA had been going away for a while, it was always an inferior solution for digital flat panels which have had DVI for at least 20 years. The only thing VGA makes any sense for is CRT monitors and those have been out of production for years. Analog audio products are widespread and still in production. The analog headphone jack is superior to bluetooth in many ways and it is still used by countless people. This is apples and oranges. A more similar comparison would be HDMI, Displayport or whatever they are using now disappearing and being replaced by a wireless video standard that requires purchasing a new monitor or using a dongle.
Miyuki:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 10, 2021, 07:16:01 am ---Total nonsense, I could find you dozens of people who would prefer to have the headphone jack, there are numerous people on this thread who agree.
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But it is dozens of people vs millions who do not need it.
You have plenty o different phone forms, "dumb phones", rugged ones, with a qwerty keyboard ...
People in surveys and discussions are not ones buying phones.
Every manufacturer tries to copy Apple because it is the most successful one. You might like it or not. But it is fact.
And every try to make phone different failed. People just did not buy it. Even if they scream how great it is.
You can try to design an "ideal" phone but it will be ideal for you not for buying public. People just won't buy your phone.
And you can buy noname wireless earbuds for a single-digit price. They are manufactured in huge numbers because people want them.
magic:
This right here. Sheeple gonna sheep.
Most of them damage their gear or use bloated apps that demand bi-yearly hardware replacement schedule anyway.
Bluetooth audio solves the "cables" problem which forced them to regularly replace headphones so far.
Now they will be replacing them when the dodgy-ass irreplaceable batteries crap out.
Shit tier wireless headphones aren't even that expensive anymore so who cares.
heutnoch:
James can find you dozens of people who would appreciate headphone jacks and so can I. And not in the country or my city but among the peers I know. It is not dozens vs. millions. Decisions that are made and that sell, are by no means always “good” decisions. At least not in every sense. Most smartphones are bought by pretty silly reasons. So, they are built to satisfy silly needs. I myself by smartphones by pretty silly reasons. Never bought an iPhone through.
But my last phone didn’t have a headphone jack though. I can’t expect a phone to be thin, IP68 and have all kind of connectors I like to have. I don’t use headphones often, so it didn’t bother me quite some time. But the moment I wanted to listen to music and load my phone at the same time came. I couldn’t do it and I didn’t like it. The phone never needed to be IP68 but I missed the headphone jack. So, I reactivated my old phone, just to listen to music. For a while I carried two phones around. One didn’t recognise SIM cards anymore, but it has a headphone jack and with all wireless communication turned of the battery life was plenty.
And now I have a $200 phone instead of a $800 phone. It features a high-capacity battery and a headphone jack. I can even use it to call people. Sometimes I miss my old phones camera (it was really good) but it is a phone, that can make pictures, and no camera I can make calls with.
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