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[โ€“] 16 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Hardly any phones have 3.5mm NOW. Google started this shit, and I do not forgive. I do not forget.

However, there is simply no reason why the manufacturers SHOULDN'T put a second USB port down there, since it would allow for dongle-less use of wired headphones, listening while charging, open up many more niche uses for the hardware, AND it would provide a redundancy for what is, in most cases, the only method of charging and accessing the data on the device

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    *Apple started this shit, Google laughed at them. Initially, that is.

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  • Fair enough. I literally do not even mentally consider apple to be a smartphone producer, because the market for apple is "I want a brick that is a slightly smaller status symbol than the last $1000+ brick I paid you for", while android was a market with competition, open-source development, and hardware selection. When apple removed the headphone jack for a proprietary port, I saw it as just more of apple requiring you to pay $100 for another proprietary cord that would fall apart in 3 months. I remember when google decided to remove the headphone jack, and at that point, I knew that everyone else would follow. that is what I do not forgive. It also happened to occur around the point at which I first read cloud atlas and snow crash, and began to clearly perceive what was coming for our world, so that is one of the primary acts I remember as defining the enshittification of the world of personal computing, as the true death knell of backwards compatibility and flexibility, in favour of a smartphone just being a Propaganda Brickโ„ข

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