I didn’t move anything. You’re just being intentionally unrealistic about the available options.

Its ~15-20% of available phones have headphone jacks..

I’m not talking about phones that exist. I’m talking about phones that you can buy in your local country, that a normal person would actually want to buy.

It matters because they took away the choice. Please pay attention.

It is not worse technology, it is in many ways superior technology, which I have already explained. Just because you don’t care for it or feel the need to lie about it doesn’t make it obsolete.

Every OEM that removed headphone jacks simultaneously introduced $250+ Bluetooth headphones. If you can’t recognize that as proof of their real motivations, you need to get your head outta the sand.

None of that matters, because guess what? We used to have both, and you didn’t have to choose. Wow how the corporations seem to have erased everyone’s memory…

There are most certainly not “plenty of options”, and the ones with jacks are mostly otherwise-terrible and/or budget devices. It used to be that jacks were a given on any device.

You’re missing the non-comprehensive list of phone models without it.

You do, actually. Because 98% of modern phones don’t have them. But you already know this.

USBC audio sucks (RIP Gordon)

I agree. Wireless buds are great. As are wired. Back in the day no one forced you to choose one.

“The obsession” is having devices that I don’t have to worry about charging or wireless protocols or interference, or fucking apps. You just plug it in, and it works, in HD, every fucking time .

I agree. Wireless buds are great. As are wired. Back in the day no one forced you to choose one.

Ugh. I just dug out my Zenfone 6 to use as a DAP. I do wish there was something smaller though…

I almost forgot how cool it is. Notification LED, rear fingerprint reader, SD card slot, dual SIM, extra programmable physical button, flip-around camera, headphone jack w/ HQ DAC. It’s pretty much peak hardware (other than being too big and heavy). But unfortunately ASUS abandoned the software after about a year.