using a cumbersome dongle introduces a single point of failure for a port which is required to stay us able for your phone to function
using a dongle introduces a single point of failure for your ability to listen to things, so you’d better hope you only have one pair of headphones, or that you never misplace tiny wires.
using a dongle is an additional cost to purchasing the phone
it’s a matter of principle, as it is a symptom of the continuing enshittification of all modern life.
using wireless headphones depletes two batteries at once.
Sure, don’t like a 3.5mm jack, despite the backwards compatibility with older headphones? Fine, but there is no good reason I can think of for there not to just be a second USB port down there. Additional data ports are good, and allow the device to be used for even more flexible, niche purposes, beyond being a redundancy against a single point of failure.
What you say is valid in theory, but in practice I have really not seen it pan out. In the end I still cannot fathom rejecting 90% of phone on the market, hampering everything I want from a phone, just to make an empty statement about a port almost nobody uses.
I’ve had my current phone for almost 4 years, I have wired headphones (so I’m already a minority), I have only had 1 dongle which I use everyday with it, and everything is completely fine and shows no signs of changing. The phone’s battery is so much more likely to die before the usb port ever does.
It just seems like an issue that has been clearly solved and I see no reason to ruin all your phone choices over it.
Dude. The people rejecting 90% of the phone market aren’t doing it to make a statement. They are the people using the damn port. Every single one of them.
They wouldn’t be complaining if they didn’t use it themselves.
Definitely not every single one of them since I use “the damn port” too. That’s the point I’m making. This has not stopped me or anyone from using any phone.
The people who are complaining seem to be complaining not because they must have a 3.5 mm port, but because they don’t accept any existing solutions (dongle/usb-c headphones) to use the usb-c port with their existing wired devices.
That’s fine, of course, everyone is entitled to not like something, but it just seems very illogical to me to be such a hardliner on something that has so many alternatives, and instead choose to barely have any phone choices.
I won’t comment further since it’s clear most people here really hate this change and I can’t grasp that since I use my wired headphones with my phone all day with no issue, I was just trying to understand the logic behind limiting yourself so much when you have alternatives.
What you say is valid in theory, but in practice I have really not seen it pan out. In the end I still cannot fathom rejecting 90% of phone on the market, hampering everything I want from a phone, just to make an empty statement about a port almost nobody uses.
I’ve had my current phone for almost 4 years, I have wired headphones (so I’m already a minority), I have only had 1 dongle which I use everyday with it, and everything is completely fine and shows no signs of changing. The phone’s battery is so much more likely to die before the usb port ever does.
It just seems like an issue that has been clearly solved and I see no reason to ruin all your phone choices over it.
Dude. The people rejecting 90% of the phone market aren’t doing it to make a statement. They are the people using the damn port. Every single one of them.
They wouldn’t be complaining if they didn’t use it themselves.
Definitely not every single one of them since I use “the damn port” too. That’s the point I’m making. This has not stopped me or anyone from using any phone.
The people who are complaining seem to be complaining not because they must have a 3.5 mm port, but because they don’t accept any existing solutions (dongle/usb-c headphones) to use the usb-c port with their existing wired devices.
That’s fine, of course, everyone is entitled to not like something, but it just seems very illogical to me to be such a hardliner on something that has so many alternatives, and instead choose to barely have any phone choices.
I won’t comment further since it’s clear most people here really hate this change and I can’t grasp that since I use my wired headphones with my phone all day with no issue, I was just trying to understand the logic behind limiting yourself so much when you have alternatives.
I hope you have a good day.