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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 21:04:46 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   It took 147 years but we finally got rid of the headphone jack in favor of superior solutions like 'sell more adapters'. :blobcatgoogly:
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     HornyHive (hornyhive@kinky.business)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 21:14:17 JST HornyHive

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     @Polychrome I fucking hate the loss of the headphone jack. It's so exhausting and tedious to either have to charge or have music. Bluetooth sucks for high quality music streaming. ~ Grimm

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     Volpeon :drgn_verified: :drgn_smol: (volpeon@is-a.wyvern.rip)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:05:19 JST Volpeon :drgn_verified: :drgn_smol:

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     @Polychrome@poly.cybre.city
     
     - Create problem
     - Sell solution for the problem you created
     
     :akko_weary:

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:25:04 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • casey is remote
     @realcaseyrollins companies will just copy Apple regardless of the rational behind the decisions. :blobcatgooglytrash:
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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 23:25:05 JST casey is remote

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     @Polychrome TBF you're "supposed" to just support #Bluetooth. You can also theoretically charge a device wirelessly through #Qi and use an adapter to connect to wired headphones or earbuds.

     I always find it funny though that nobody points out that #Apple got rid of the headphone jack on the #iPhone because they wanted to make their phones thinner and thinner and the headphone jack was getting in the way of that lol

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:25:10 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • sj_zero
     • casey is remote
     @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero if smartphone manufacturers won't add haptic feedback then I'd prefer to get buttons back because I strongly prefer and enjoy feeling tactile controls under my fingers over a uniformly smooth glass.
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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:25:11 JST casey is remote

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     • sj_zero

     @sj_zero @Polychrome It's actually not a bad decision. Buttons break if you use em enough, at a higher rate than screens I think.

     Though to be fair when #Apple switched to haptic sensors for the #iPhone home "button", that probably addressed most of those issues.

     If a company reintroduced the home button, I wonder how people would respond.

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:25:12 JST sj_zero

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     • casey is remote
     Die ein button took a decade to finally go away despite it being a silly design decision
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:27:11 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • casey is remote
     @realcaseyrollins @sj_zero I've been mostly hearing excuses related to increasing the phone's ability to survive underwater submersion but yup, this was all about the thinness craze.
     
     Well that and pushing people to buy Bluetooth headphones and earpieces like the ones Apple just so happens to be selling.
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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:27:12 JST casey is remote

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     • sj_zero

     @sj_zero @Polychrome They were cutting it very, very close.

     But I guess they gave up on the thinness craze because the thinnest stock #iPhone they sell now, the #iPhoneSE, is 7.3mm thick.

     https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-14,iphone-se-3rd-gen,iphone-15

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 00:27:13 JST sj_zero

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     • casey is remote
     According to apple, an iPhone 13 is 7.65mm thick.
     
     Wow, that's pretty thin. Nobody could make a device thinner than that with a headphone jack.
     
     Well, I mean except apple. Which made the iPod touch with a headphone jack that's 6.1mm thick.
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     Klax (klax@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 11:10:33 JST Klax

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     @Polychrome
     Once again, phone manufacturers seem oblivious that everybody puts their phone in a case.

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 11:10:33 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Klax
     @Klax they know, but the initial wow factor sells - or so they think.
     
     I just want more battery life. And/or overall smaller form factor, I have dainty hands.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 20:16:14 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Wandelstock
     @Wandelstock I don't see the comparison, sorry :blobcatshrug:
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     Wandelstock (wandelstock@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 20:16:15 JST Wandelstock

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     @Polychrome

     i am still hating that big companies forced us to buy electric light bulbs, gas wicks did there job properly /s