Indeed, it's good to have a headphone jack. It performs its function universally well. Though some people might use Bluetooth earbuds, still having the jack means more choice and convenience for consumers all around. Despite the occasional discovery of software vulnerabilities, which exist on every platform including iOS, Android manufacturers aren't Apple and thus aren't driven by an unholy quest to fuck over and throw their customers into a bottomless pit of proprietary hell just to raise profits a bit higher.
Actually the 3.5 mm headphone jack is a failure prone device, designed years ago, and shows it. I've replaced dozens of them, and thrown away a lot more that couldn't be replaced. It's a true piece of shit that should have been replaced years ago with a substantial and professional connector.
And having both Android and iOS and OSX devices, I gotta tell ya, your Apple fucking people over meme is lacking in truth.
Instead of fixing local problems, people get wrapped up in tech porn.
And they have forever. And that's actually a good thing. Those ships that brought most people's ancestors to where they live now are technology. Wagons are technology. You have to deal with it that not all people are stuck in the mud.
It's almost like they escape problems here by thinking of grandiose plans in space and imagine that they will solve anything.
Wanderlust is an integral part of the human experience. Not everyone has it, but aside from people who might be fleeing overcrowding or lack of opportunity, it is something rooted in their psyche. We are not trying to solve anything, we are just doing what we do. It's the difference between someone who wants to go to the Grand Canyon for the experience, and someone who wonders why anyone is interested in a big ditch
This isn't even an indictment of you. There is a very big place for people who resist change, and don't like risk. The world also badly needs adventurists, people who strike out towards something new.
In the end, all practical matters aside, a lot of people are interested in going to Mars, even as a one-way trip. Others are happy to not ever venture out of the city the live in. Its just how people act.
"Meanwhile the permanently unemployed poor stay on the surface and rot."
In a socially mobile country anyone can be made poor by temporary circumstances. But those permanently unemployed poor of yours are the people who lack the vision it takes to improve themselves. Perhaps it's being dedicated to an obsolete industry, perhaps it's BLM-style racial hatred, or perhaps it's falling into the black hole of addiction.
Exactly. If everyone had the will to be rich, everyone would be incredibly wealthy. 100 percent of us would be in the top 1 percent.
Except all accidents are based on per mile. And automated cars have been proven repeatedly to be much safer per mile than almost any grouping of humans.
Sounds good. Would you let your wife and children take a trip from say New York, to Sandiego? in the back seat of one of these? I've made the trip, without an accident, so the driverless car wouldn not get in any accident at all.
But hey, Apple hipster, I'll agree to switch over to your way of living and even advocate for it.
All I need you to do is provide me with money for dongles, lost dongles, various adapters and hubs when they inevitably change standards again, batteries for bluetooth headsets, money for inconvenience of not having access when dongles inevitably go lost or batteries die or when devices no longer match with a unuversal port, money to replace headphones again when they change the standards again...
Because that's what hipsters like me care about. Not posing for fashion, but whether something is convenient and cost effective.:)
Sorry that you can't keep track of things, You probably lose your phone as well. I really don't give a shit about what you want to use, it's just fu to watch you AC's come back with a story of how hard it is, or how you can't do this or do that.
Haha, yeah, since I use headphones for different devices, I will then plug the dongle into my computer because they totally work that way! I might as well use glue! There is never a reason a headphone could ever possibly be separated from a dongle, not even a bit of physical force which would normally be no issue!
Alternative plan: ignore Apple hype addicts such as yourself, buy phone with headphone jack, don't buy dongle, don't lose or misplace dongle that was never purchased, save money on batteries, dongles, replacement headphones, etc.
You can do whatever you want. Because some things are just too hard for ya. I love you guys, it's like talking to the old shits down at the legion who are still pissed they took lead out of gasoline. Keep it up!
8 lost because it was crap. Surely you haven't forgotten how the tapes stretched after not very many plays and the cartridges seized up so the machine ate the tape... good luck luck fishing it back out, and you won't be playing that tape again.
Did you read what I posted? The ay it was wound onto the spool causd all those problems.
I hated the death of incandecent light bulbs when the first started phasing them out. Compact flourecents just wern't as good. Now that we have LED bulbs, at affordable prices; I couldn't be happier.
The CFL's were a stopgap, and no doubt. LED's are tremendous, especially since we can now put out a lot of light in fixtures that once used to be limited to 60 watt incandescant lights.
Same goes for the 3.5mm jack. I'm not interested in wireless earphones because they're a pain in the ass. They need charging (for the same reason I use a wired keyboard and mouse). USB Type-C is awesome but as others have pointed out, most devices only have one type-C port so you can't charge and listen at the same time; not without some complicated adapter anyway.
When devices start coming with 2 or more USB ports, I'll be happy.
Agreed on the multiple USB ports.
My headsets charge while I use them if I wish. My wireless mouse runs on AA's so charging isn't an issue Same with my wireless keyboard. I do have a wired Keyboard as well, which I use because Apple's wireless boards don't have a numbers keypad - teh jerks! and ths wired is the only one that does. So at certain parts of the year, I really need a keyboard with a numbers keypad. The standalone numericals just fly all over the place while I try to use them.
CD's beat cassettes - eventually, after many years - because they were superior to cassettes in a number of concrete and obvious ways such as "no need to rewind", and "no snarled tape".
This is not the case with USB-C vs 3.5mm.
Are you saying that a 3.5mm headphone jack is equal or superior to a USB-C jack? That's a remarkably bold and wrong statement.
Yes, yes it is different. Try keeping track of something big like a headset and compare it to keeping track of a hub the size of a pack of gum. I'm suggesting this since you apparently have not already done so, which is why you think there is no relevant difference.
Here is a really weird life hack. Put the little dongle connecter on your wired headphone if you will die having anything else. Annnnnnnnddddddddd Get ready for it..... Leave it there! Who the hell knew that a device that could be plugged into something could be plugged into something?
Then when you plug in the adapter, you - here is the tricky part.... Plug the dongle in.
the freaking astonishing thing is you aren't likely to lose the dongle unless you lose the headset. But as you have eloquently pointed out, no one loses the headset, and problem solved!
Considering the folks who have so much trouble with this plugging in thing concept, maybe I'll open a lifehacks webpage that shows how to do this. Then next week I'll have one on hoow to decide whether to use a fork or spoon.
Okay, here's what I want from my phone. 1)Phone and text. 2)internet browser 3)Music player and headphone jack. Until now all those things were basically a given on any phone. Yeah I probably wouldnt get a straight up old school dumb phone, but a lowend smart phone. If literally every phone drops the jack I'll just have to go back to carrying a seperate music player. But that ain't going to happen.
Tell me, what would you do with a wired headphone that uses some other wire? The defense of the lowly and dmage prone 3.5 mm jack and teh seemingly inability of any other method of connection being acceptable to y'all makes me wonder. It really is a poor connecting method for the incredible outpouring of hatred towards anything else. It is the 14.4 k modem speed version of a connector to make a professional comparison.
And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
Is someone actually working on this? If not, DIBS! Now to start a kickstarter campaign.
Way back when, there was a war between 8 track and cassette tapes. 8 track should have won, certainly cassettes were running a slow tape speed, and were designed for voice, not music. But the 8 track's achilles heal was that the tape had the weird playout of the tape from an angle in the center of the reel. So cassettes won. Then I remember the CD versus cassette tape wars. Fortunately, the cassettes lost that one quickly, since they pretty much sucked anyhow. Which the 3.5 mm jack will probably go the way of the cassette tape, once everyone settles down about it. And for the same reason.
Yep. Because it has been proven tine and again that, where Apple leads, the others follow. Period. That's not fanboy-ism; that's History Repeating.
Because it only makes sense. That little headphone jack that is apparently the single most important device ever developed in the universe, the device that at least one guy here says he'll go to a dumb phone if he can't have one - well, the headphone jack is a stinking piece of shit that has been around waaay past it's useful lifetime. I've had so many devices rendered useless because of a failure of that part, and have replaced dozens of them over the years.
But please jack lovers, give us some more of your special case stories where having a 3.5 mm phone jack saved the universe. Then we promise to get off your lawns.
What I loved were the people that argued that Apple should just switch to. 2.5 mm Jack. Not only does this not solve the "adapter" "problem"; but if there is anything more intermittent than a 3.5 mm Jack, it's a 2.5 mm Jack! So, spectacular idea!!!
Gotta remember though, these are people who wouldn't buy an iPhone anyhow. So their outrage in all matters is a little off.
Just like their apocrypha stories.
But it will be all good when Samsung and the others have eliminated theirs.
After all, what is a plug in headset but a huge dongle?
Well, I guess that means no more new expensive phones for me. If they don't do what I want it's back to dumb phones.
The most ironic statement I've heard yet.
Remember to turn off the light on yer way out the door.
How is that ironic? If something doesn't have a feature I want I won't get it? I want a phone that can double as an mp3 playing, using my headphones I already have and like without having to replace them with more expensive, inconvenient ones. But yeah, sure, I'll turn the light off, all you guys seem happy enough bumbling around in the dark anyway.
You are going to give up damn near everything because of a phone jack. If that isn't ironic, that your not understanding that is ironic as well.
But I'm here to help. There are some phones I've seen on TV that are aimed at Senior Citizens, real simple, and the most important part is they have that headphone jack that appears to be the most important feature. I think they play MP3's. But even if they don't, they have a headphone jack.
Better hurry on that LG; because their next phone won't have a 3.5 mm Jack, either.
The story made my morning, and of course the phone jack will be going away on everything in the end. Its a failure prone device that has needed replaced for years. I've replaced dozens in items where you can get to them to replace. Bluetooth or for the smartphone audiophile anti-hipsters a wired headphone will suffice in the future.
I don't usually call people hipsters, which is what I'm usually called, but this obsession with the 3.5 mm headphone jack some have is deliciously hipsterish. I can see clubs of people who gather in their gluten free, vegan pubs, drinking their Pabst Blue Ribbon - that's PBR to you unwashed folks, and rhapsodizing how their low oxygen copper wires and their beryllium copper jack connections are providing them with the superior listening experience through their vintage smartphones and Big Lots! headphones. And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
Every time Apple pushes the market forward, there is a great gnashing of teeth. Then everyone follows Apple. This is no different.
But oh so much fun to listen/read the gnashing of teeth. Reminds me of the olde fartes bemoaning the death of incandescant light bulbs.
And lose whatever percentage to inefficiency? Last figure I heard was 30% so if everyone starts wasting that amount of power, start building some more nuclear/coal plants
Should be marked insightful or informative. Since the phone itself has to have the secondary of an inductive transformer component in it, the inefficiencies are huge. You don't see anyone building real transformers that way because no one in their right mid would.
What's more, the problem of a base to charge a phone on was solved a long time ago. It was called a charging dock.
Wireless phone chargers create more problems than they solve.
Where are all the people grousing about not being able to use their phono-plugged headphones in a Lightning connector now? Is using a USB-C to phono adapter acceptable, but for some reason lightning-to-phono isn't?
Oh, right. Not Apple, so everything is fine. My bad.
Read the thread again, plenty of moaning about that.
Yep. Because it has been proven tine and again that, where Apple leads, the others follow. Period. That's not fanboy-ism; that's History Repeating.
Because it only makes sense. That little headphone jack that is apparently the single most important device ever developed in the universe, the device that at least one guy here says he'll go to a dumb phone if he can't have one - well, the headphone jack is a stinking piece of shit that has been around waaay past it's useful lifetime. I've had so many devices rendered useless because of a failure of that part, and have replaced dozens of them over the years.
But please jack lovers, give us some more of your special case stories where having a 3.5 mm phone jack saved the universe. Then we promise to get off your lawns.
Better hurry on that LG; because their next phone won't have a 3.5 mm Jack, either.
The story made my morning, and of course the phone jack will be going away on everything in the end. Its a failure prone device that has needed replaced for years. I've replaced dozens in items where you can get to them to replace. Bluetooth or for the smartphone audiophile anti-hipsters a wired headphone will suffice in the future.
I don't usually call people hipsters, which is what I'm usually called, but this obsession with the 3.5 mm headphone jack some have is deliciously hipsterish. I can see clubs of people who gather in their gluten free, vegan pubs, drinking their Pabst Blue Ribbon - that's PBR to you unwashed folks, and rhapsodizing how their low oxygen copper wires and their beryllium copper jack connections are providing them with the superior listening experience through their vintage smartphones and Big Lots! headphones. And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
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Indeed, it's good to have a headphone jack. It performs its function universally well. Though some people might use Bluetooth earbuds, still having the jack means more choice and convenience for consumers all around. Despite the occasional discovery of software vulnerabilities, which exist on every platform including iOS, Android manufacturers aren't Apple and thus aren't driven by an unholy quest to fuck over and throw their customers into a bottomless pit of proprietary hell just to raise profits a bit higher.
Actually the 3.5 mm headphone jack is a failure prone device, designed years ago, and shows it. I've replaced dozens of them, and thrown away a lot more that couldn't be replaced. It's a true piece of shit that should have been replaced years ago with a substantial and professional connector.
And having both Android and iOS and OSX devices, I gotta tell ya, your Apple fucking people over meme is lacking in truth.
Instead of fixing local problems, people get wrapped up in tech porn.
And they have forever. And that's actually a good thing. Those ships that brought most people's ancestors to where they live now are technology. Wagons are technology. You have to deal with it that not all people are stuck in the mud.
It's almost like they escape problems here by thinking of grandiose plans in space and imagine that they will solve anything.
Wanderlust is an integral part of the human experience. Not everyone has it, but aside from people who might be fleeing overcrowding or lack of opportunity, it is something rooted in their psyche. We are not trying to solve anything, we are just doing what we do. It's the difference between someone who wants to go to the Grand Canyon for the experience, and someone who wonders why anyone is interested in a big ditch
This isn't even an indictment of you. There is a very big place for people who resist change, and don't like risk. The world also badly needs adventurists, people who strike out towards something new.
In the end, all practical matters aside, a lot of people are interested in going to Mars, even as a one-way trip. Others are happy to not ever venture out of the city the live in. Its just how people act.
"Meanwhile the permanently unemployed poor stay on the surface and rot."
In a socially mobile country anyone can be made poor by temporary circumstances. But those permanently unemployed poor of yours are the people who lack the vision it takes to improve themselves. Perhaps it's being dedicated to an obsolete industry, perhaps it's BLM-style racial hatred, or perhaps it's falling into the black hole of addiction.
Exactly. If everyone had the will to be rich, everyone would be incredibly wealthy. 100 percent of us would be in the top 1 percent.
At least they have a headphone jack, so no problem.
Except all accidents are based on per mile. And automated cars have been proven repeatedly to be much safer per mile than almost any grouping of humans.
Sounds good. Would you let your wife and children take a trip from say New York, to Sandiego? in the back seat of one of these? I've made the trip, without an accident, so the driverless car wouldn not get in any accident at all.
But hey, Apple hipster, I'll agree to switch over to your way of living and even advocate for it.
All I need you to do is provide me with money for dongles, lost dongles, various adapters and hubs when they inevitably change standards again, batteries for bluetooth headsets, money for inconvenience of not having access when dongles inevitably go lost or batteries die or when devices no longer match with a unuversal port, money to replace headphones again when they change the standards again...
Because that's what hipsters like me care about. Not posing for fashion, but whether something is convenient and cost effective. :)
Sorry that you can't keep track of things, You probably lose your phone as well. I really don't give a shit about what you want to use, it's just fu to watch you AC's come back with a story of how hard it is, or how you can't do this or do that.
So keep me posted, I'm lovin it.
Haha, yeah, since I use headphones for different devices, I will then plug the dongle into my computer because they totally work that way! I might as well use glue! There is never a reason a headphone could ever possibly be separated from a dongle, not even a bit of physical force which would normally be no issue!
Alternative plan: ignore Apple hype addicts such as yourself, buy phone with headphone jack, don't buy dongle, don't lose or misplace dongle that was never purchased, save money on batteries, dongles, replacement headphones, etc.
You can do whatever you want. Because some things are just too hard for ya. I love you guys, it's like talking to the old shits down at the legion who are still pissed they took lead out of gasoline. Keep it up!
8 track should have won...
8 lost because it was crap. Surely you haven't forgotten how the tapes stretched after not very many plays and the cartridges seized up so the machine ate the tape... good luck luck fishing it back out, and you won't be playing that tape again.
Did you read what I posted? The ay it was wound onto the spool causd all those problems.
I hated the death of incandecent light bulbs when the first started phasing them out. Compact flourecents just wern't as good. Now that we have LED bulbs, at affordable prices; I couldn't be happier.
The CFL's were a stopgap, and no doubt. LED's are tremendous, especially since we can now put out a lot of light in fixtures that once used to be limited to 60 watt incandescant lights.
Same goes for the 3.5mm jack. I'm not interested in wireless earphones because they're a pain in the ass. They need charging (for the same reason I use a wired keyboard and mouse). USB Type-C is awesome but as others have pointed out, most devices only have one type-C port so you can't charge and listen at the same time; not without some complicated adapter anyway.
When devices start coming with 2 or more USB ports, I'll be happy.
Agreed on the multiple USB ports.
My headsets charge while I use them if I wish. My wireless mouse runs on AA's so charging isn't an issue Same with my wireless keyboard. I do have a wired Keyboard as well, which I use because Apple's wireless boards don't have a numbers keypad - teh jerks! and ths wired is the only one that does. So at certain parts of the year, I really need a keyboard with a numbers keypad. The standalone numericals just fly all over the place while I try to use them.
CD's beat cassettes - eventually, after many years - because they were superior to cassettes in a number of concrete and obvious ways such as "no need to rewind", and "no snarled tape".
This is not the case with USB-C vs 3.5mm.
Are you saying that a 3.5mm headphone jack is equal or superior to a USB-C jack? That's a remarkably bold and wrong statement.
Yes, yes it is different. Try keeping track of something big like a headset and compare it to keeping track of a hub the size of a pack of gum. I'm suggesting this since you apparently have not already done so, which is why you think there is no relevant difference.
Here is a really weird life hack. Put the little dongle connecter on your wired headphone if you will die having anything else. Annnnnnnnddddddddd Get ready for it..... Leave it there! Who the hell knew that a device that could be plugged into something could be plugged into something?
Then when you plug in the adapter, you - here is the tricky part.... Plug the dongle in.
the freaking astonishing thing is you aren't likely to lose the dongle unless you lose the headset. But as you have eloquently pointed out, no one loses the headset, and problem solved! Considering the folks who have so much trouble with this plugging in thing concept, maybe I'll open a lifehacks webpage that shows how to do this. Then next week I'll have one on hoow to decide whether to use a fork or spoon.
Honestly, you're the one coming off as a hipster
And you are most entertaining! Thank you.
Okay, here's what I want from my phone. 1)Phone and text. 2)internet browser 3)Music player and headphone jack. Until now all those things were basically a given on any phone. Yeah I probably wouldnt get a straight up old school dumb phone, but a lowend smart phone. If literally every phone drops the jack I'll just have to go back to carrying a seperate music player. But that ain't going to happen.
Tell me, what would you do with a wired headphone that uses some other wire? The defense of the lowly and dmage prone 3.5 mm jack and teh seemingly inability of any other method of connection being acceptable to y'all makes me wonder. It really is a poor connecting method for the incredible outpouring of hatred towards anything else. It is the 14.4 k modem speed version of a connector to make a professional comparison.
And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
Is someone actually working on this? If not, DIBS! Now to start a kickstarter campaign.
Way back when, there was a war between 8 track and cassette tapes. 8 track should have won, certainly cassettes were running a slow tape speed, and were designed for voice, not music. But the 8 track's achilles heal was that the tape had the weird playout of the tape from an angle in the center of the reel. So cassettes won. Then I remember the CD versus cassette tape wars. Fortunately, the cassettes lost that one quickly, since they pretty much sucked anyhow. Which the 3.5 mm jack will probably go the way of the cassette tape, once everyone settles down about it. And for the same reason.
Yep. Because it has been proven tine and again that, where Apple leads, the others follow. Period. That's not fanboy-ism; that's History Repeating.
Because it only makes sense. That little headphone jack that is apparently the single most important device ever developed in the universe, the device that at least one guy here says he'll go to a dumb phone if he can't have one - well, the headphone jack is a stinking piece of shit that has been around waaay past it's useful lifetime. I've had so many devices rendered useless because of a failure of that part, and have replaced dozens of them over the years.
But please jack lovers, give us some more of your special case stories where having a 3.5 mm phone jack saved the universe. Then we promise to get off your lawns.
What I loved were the people that argued that Apple should just switch to. 2.5 mm Jack. Not only does this not solve the "adapter" "problem"; but if there is anything more intermittent than a 3.5 mm Jack, it's a 2.5 mm Jack! So, spectacular idea!!!
Gotta remember though, these are people who wouldn't buy an iPhone anyhow. So their outrage in all matters is a little off.
Just like their apocrypha stories.
But it will be all good when Samsung and the others have eliminated theirs.
After all, what is a plug in headset but a huge dongle?
Well, I guess that means no more new expensive phones for me. If they don't do what I want it's back to dumb phones.
The most ironic statement I've heard yet.
Remember to turn off the light on yer way out the door.
How is that ironic? If something doesn't have a feature I want I won't get it? I want a phone that can double as an mp3 playing, using my headphones I already have and like without having to replace them with more expensive, inconvenient ones. But yeah, sure, I'll turn the light off, all you guys seem happy enough bumbling around in the dark anyway.
You are going to give up damn near everything because of a phone jack. If that isn't ironic, that your not understanding that is ironic as well.
But I'm here to help. There are some phones I've seen on TV that are aimed at Senior Citizens, real simple, and the most important part is they have that headphone jack that appears to be the most important feature. I think they play MP3's. But even if they don't, they have a headphone jack.
Better hurry on that LG; because their next phone won't have a 3.5 mm Jack, either.
The story made my morning, and of course the phone jack will be going away on everything in the end. Its a failure prone device that has needed replaced for years. I've replaced dozens in items where you can get to them to replace. Bluetooth or for the smartphone audiophile anti-hipsters a wired headphone will suffice in the future.
I don't usually call people hipsters, which is what I'm usually called, but this obsession with the 3.5 mm headphone jack some have is deliciously hipsterish. I can see clubs of people who gather in their gluten free, vegan pubs, drinking their Pabst Blue Ribbon - that's PBR to you unwashed folks, and rhapsodizing how their low oxygen copper wires and their beryllium copper jack connections are providing them with the superior listening experience through their vintage smartphones and Big Lots! headphones. And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
Every time Apple pushes the market forward, there is a great gnashing of teeth. Then everyone follows Apple. This is no different.
But oh so much fun to listen/read the gnashing of teeth. Reminds me of the olde fartes bemoaning the death of incandescant light bulbs.
And lose whatever percentage to inefficiency? Last figure I heard was 30% so if everyone starts wasting that amount of power, start building some more nuclear /coal plants
Should be marked insightful or informative. Since the phone itself has to have the secondary of an inductive transformer component in it, the inefficiencies are huge. You don't see anyone building real transformers that way because no one in their right mid would.
What's more, the problem of a base to charge a phone on was solved a long time ago. It was called a charging dock.
Wireless phone chargers create more problems than they solve.
Since when did exploding become a feature of phones?
That's a security feature on the S7. The real problem was that it kept getting accidentally activated.
Something to do with the headphone jack shorting out....
Where are all the people grousing about not being able to use their phono-plugged headphones in a Lightning connector now? Is using a USB-C to phono adapter acceptable, but for some reason lightning-to-phono isn't?
Oh, right. Not Apple, so everything is fine. My bad.
Read the thread again, plenty of moaning about that.
He just thought they were having sexytime.
Yep. Because it has been proven tine and again that, where Apple leads, the others follow. Period. That's not fanboy-ism; that's History Repeating.
Because it only makes sense. That little headphone jack that is apparently the single most important device ever developed in the universe, the device that at least one guy here says he'll go to a dumb phone if he can't have one - well, the headphone jack is a stinking piece of shit that has been around waaay past it's useful lifetime. I've had so many devices rendered useless because of a failure of that part, and have replaced dozens of them over the years.
But please jack lovers, give us some more of your special case stories where having a 3.5 mm phone jack saved the universe. Then we promise to get off your lawns.
Well, I guess that means no more new expensive phones for me. If they don't do what I want it's back to dumb phones.
The most ironic statement I've heard yet.
Remember to turn off the light on yer way out the door.
It's a PHONE. Nobody wants to use a phone with a hub dangling from it.
Which is somehow different than a plugged in headset dangling from it.
Better hurry on that LG; because their next phone won't have a 3.5 mm Jack, either.
The story made my morning, and of course the phone jack will be going away on everything in the end. Its a failure prone device that has needed replaced for years. I've replaced dozens in items where you can get to them to replace. Bluetooth or for the smartphone audiophile anti-hipsters a wired headphone will suffice in the future.
I don't usually call people hipsters, which is what I'm usually called, but this obsession with the 3.5 mm headphone jack some have is deliciously hipsterish. I can see clubs of people who gather in their gluten free, vegan pubs, drinking their Pabst Blue Ribbon - that's PBR to you unwashed folks, and rhapsodizing how their low oxygen copper wires and their beryllium copper jack connections are providing them with the superior listening experience through their vintage smartphones and Big Lots! headphones. And passing rumors that someone is making an 8-track adapter for their smartphones.
As well, they conveniently left out the word "chipped". This is just installing chips in people.