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What's the real reason that laptop batteries are made not-accessible?
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james_s:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 10, 2021, 01:58:03 pm ---I don't know for a fact because I haven't looked, but I would be very surprised if the Apple wireless earbuds used an open protocol that allows competing products to be made...

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They're all compatible. I frequently use bluetooth headphones with my iPhone, I have a couple different pairs, one is a basic set and the other has active noise cancelling. I like bluetooth and find it to be very useful, I would not want to go without it. I also like having a headphone jack because sometimes I want to plug in something analog that does not have bluetooth. People are treating this like it's an either-or thing, like we have to ditch analog in order to have bluetooth. That's totally stupid, I already have bluetooth, ditching the headphone jack is not giving me anything at all, it is only taking something away. It doesn't matter if I only used it even once a year, for that alone it is worth having. In reality though I use it much more than that, several times when I've been on the bus or in the office and my bluetooth headphones went dead I pulled the cable out of my pack and connected them to the headphone jack. I'm afraid I will never understand the mentality that having less choice and fewer options is somehow an improvement.
SilverSolder:

DIY guy adds headphone jack to an iPhone 7...  LOL!  :D

ogden:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 10, 2021, 08:31:42 pm ---Maybe you can show me how to plug headphones or an external amplifier into a current generation iPhone while it's charging

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As current generation iPhones have wireless charging capability, it's easy ;)
james_s:
Only if I lug around a wireless charging pad with me, I don't know anyone that owns one of those, but everyone has a few regular phone chargers around.

I hope my iPhone SE lasts a long time because unless Apple changes their mind and brings back the headphone jack I'm going to keep the phone I have for as long as I possibly can before I'm forced to downgrade to a newer model.
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 10, 2021, 08:31:42 pm ---Maybe you can show me how to plug headphones or an external amplifier into a current generation iPhone while it's charging because I can only seem to find one single connector that can be used for one thing or the other.

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I don't know about iPhone but for USB-C devices, there are lots of cheap adapters that give you charging, multiple USB ports, HDMI, and Ethernet with just one connection.
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