XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: andrews@spam.net   
      
   *Hemidactylus* wrote on Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:10:22 +0000 :   
      
   >> In five years I'm on my third pair of BT earpods. In the flip side, I still   
   >> have wired headphones that are decades old which work perfectly well.   
   >> Progress?   
   >>   
   > I have higher quality headphones not "pods". And they hold a charge for   
   > quite a time. Not being tethered is progress as is not using an auxillary   
   > cable in my car. Bluetooth has been reliable for me and sound quality ok.   
   > Again one can use an adaptor cable for the jack into headphones or aux in a   
   > car or into RCA adaptors for a home entertainment center. I've done the   
   > latter, playing my phone through a cable into a home system. The loss of a   
   > headphone specific hole in the phone is a non-issue seized upon by local   
   > miscreants for their trolling agenda.   
      
   It's Apple's fundamentally basic marketing strategy to limit users' choice.   
   By restricting users' choices, Apple ends up making *lots of money*.   
      
   Chris is correct.   
      
   He has the choice of either bluetooth or wired.   
   You do not.   
      
   The fact is there is nothing a phone without this basic functionality of a   
   headphone jack can do that a phone with the headphone jack cannnot do.   
      
   The *only* difference - is your choices are limited, Hemidactylus.   
   Chris' choices are not.   
      
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