strong industrial waste products in their drinking water (turns out the crap they put in the drinking water was poisoning the land when they dumped it in the rivers, and has been pretty convincingly linked to ovarian cysts and low testosterone while doing nothing for our teeth

Chemicals in the water turning frogs gay lmao

I’d be willing to bet on the latter point there. Laserdiscs are similarly dead technology. Niche collectors may enjoy them, but they will not be catered to for the average consumer.

I appreciate it.

No, because in practice that isn’t a thing that regularly happens, and as the tech continues to die out it will be less and less possible.

Most people do not own and cannot use a soldering iron.

If you can add it to a phone that doesn’t have it already, I’m not sure what the problem is, in your view.

This is all also true about traditional headphones jacks, which have failed quite often for me over the decades

My favorite headphones of all time failed in this way, and requires I have the jack in exactly the right spot/depth

I didn’t choose the analogy.

At the bottom of your phone (probably? Idk like iPhones and shit), you have a USB-C (or some letter) port. There are headphones that plug in there.

They are no more battery powered than your phone.

Kind of shocked this isn’t well known, as this is a tech forum.

In my experience, 0 headphones are guaranteed to work indefinitely, and I’ve been using headphones jacks since like '87

If bicycles and motorcycles competed for the exact same role, with an opportunity cost allowing only one, how would bicycles not be obsolete?

Idk hopefully not many. I’m not enthused by dead tech.

I’m not talking about Bluetooth at all tho

All headphones you plug in are.

You can still buy DVD players, which means people still buy DVD players, but that doesn’t make it not dead tech

Yeah that I def agree with.

If you buy this phone, you’re exclusively buying it for sustainability, so you’re already accepting an inferior product.

There’s no reason to cling to headphone jacks as if those are somehow a worthwhile technology.

comfortable headsets, audio without batteries

These are both solved via USB headsets tho?

as technology starts to plateau

Not sure we’ll ever hit that point tbh.

There are headphones that use the USB port. Headphone jacks are kinda dead tech at this point.

Yeah I could not care less. Seems beyond weird to me. Reminds me of the old video game console arguments in elementary school.