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            1 year ago

            They had to, I’m guessing. At this point nobody is manufacturing headphone jack hardware for smartphones.

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              1 year ago

              I’m pretty sure that DACs and 3.5mm jacks are still being manufactured

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                1 year ago

                Then it’s likely cheaper to make a bluetooth headphones phone than include a 3.5mm jack? Or they could just be greedy, although I would hope FairPhone won’t turn to the dark side so soon.

                Excuse me, this is meant to be an admin account for c/OpenTTD@lemmy.zip so I’ll have to return to whence I came.

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                  1 year ago

                  You’re probably right, there are reasons stopping them, it’s not necessarily a conspiracy of phone makers.

                  Just got the notification for a post you made 10 minutes after mine…

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                  1 year ago

                  I’m thinking Fairphone saw the trend and decided to make a profit. I don’t see how removing headphone jacks is beneficial for the consumer.