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Then it’s likely cheaper to make a bluetooth headphones phone than include a 3.5mm jack? Or they could just be greedy, although I would hope FairPhone won’t turn to the dark side so soon.
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They had to, I’m guessing. At this point nobody is manufacturing headphone jack hardware for smartphones.
I’m pretty sure that DACs and 3.5mm jacks are still being manufactured
Then it’s likely cheaper to make a bluetooth headphones phone than include a 3.5mm jack? Or they could just be greedy, although I would hope FairPhone won’t turn to the dark side so soon.
Excuse me, this is meant to be an admin account for c/OpenTTD@lemmy.zip so I’ll have to return to whence I came.
You’re probably right, there are reasons stopping them, it’s not necessarily a conspiracy of phone makers.
Just got the notification for a post you made 10 minutes after mine…
I’m thinking Fairphone saw the trend and decided to make a profit. I don’t see how removing headphone jacks is beneficial for the consumer.
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