Instead, I pay very close attention to their actions to figure out what they’re all about.
Maybe it’s my provincial New Hampshire upbringing, but I place very little stock in people’s words. However, excluding the headphone jack is still an extreme action that isn’t completely explained away by “Apple is better at Bluetooth.” Why would a company ditch the jack when the cost to meet the needs of every single one of your consumers’ listening habits is so easy to do? While the official line of ditching the headphone jack has been “not enough space,” we now know that excuse to be a lie: it’s definitely possible to cram in a headphone jack, it’s just not easy. It’s a fantastically versatile piece of tech that hasn’t really been changed all that much since the plug was reduced in size to 3.5mm in the 1950s. Not only that, but it’s an easy way to enable the use of microphones, as well. It can support inexpensive headphones, and it can support the best headphones-all with one universal standard. It’s a solved issue: not only is a TRRS plug cheap, but it’s durable, small, and high-quality. It seems weird to extol the virtues of a piece of nearly 140-year-old technology in this day and age, but the reason why it’s persisted this long is that… it works. It has become the wrong tool for the job: It just doesn’t work. Consequently, a phone that eschews the most-used standard to consume audio also eschews its utility to consumers. For better or worse, the ability to get music to your ears in a convenient fashion is now-and will likely always be-an essential part of what the world thinks a smartphone should do. That number will go up the longer these services are available, and as those same kids age.
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