The conceit that it makes it slimmer is ridiculous. Give me a thicker phone to fit in that headphone jack, and while you're at it, fill the rest of the space with battery.
This argument is disingenuous. I hope people would stop spouting it.
There will ALWAYS be an advantage to wired headphones over wireless: reliability and versatility.
Bluetooth headphones can be VERY finicky about who they'll connect to and with how much hassle. They also cannot be plugged into a separate DAC/Amp setup.
Perhaps if it were standard for headphones to allow the user to bypass the bluetooth DAC and run the drivers on our own signal, but I haven't really seen this on affordable headphones.
This argument is equally disingenuous because you're implying that you simply can't use wired headphones of any kind. You can still get wired headphones without a headphone jack and just use the USB-C port.
And demolish any supposed gains in size and weight from removing the jack in the first place.
The thing that gets me is, removing the headphone provides no benefit whatsoever for the vast majority of users. A few grams and some fraction of a millimeter aren't enough for you to feel the difference in your hand. If you don't use wired headphones, you gain no advantage from removing the jack. If you do use wired headphones, there's a substantial disadvantage to removing the jack. So if it doesn't benefit anyone, why do it?
Ok, yeah, you can exaggerate the desire for backwards compatibility, but when you change to NOT use the standard that's not the same thing at all. I believe wired headphones to still be the standard item of choice for listening, as evidenced by the extremely common need for a dongle.
It absolutely isn't. It probably will be in a while, assuming they can get at least some of the sync issues ironed out, but it's not the current standard any more than electric cars are.
Rows upon rows of headphones in stores everywhere beg to differ. It's an emerging standard, absolutely, but I have no desire to have to charge me headphones.
Doesn't make much difference when you've got a wide-open power/data port right there. Unless you're using a water-resistant case with folding rubber plugs, in which case you just close the one over the headphone jack and never think about it again.
I get that some people never used wired headphones and don't care about the headphone jack either way. It confuses me that so many people are urgently trying to make out like this is a net positive for the average user.
