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Comment by wat10000

8 hours ago

And why didn't any of the multitude of phone makers say "turns out that people actually want a headphone jack, let's spend a few extra cents and steal all of our competitors' customers"?

"The Best Phones With an Actual Headphone Jack", Nov 2025 [1]

[1] https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-headphone-jack-phones/

  • Are these popular models? Pretty sure they aren’t. So there you go: people have a choice, and they largely choose not to get a headphone jack.

    • Almost like there were at least three other features more important.

      The most important letters in English are E, T and A. I'm sure you won't notice if we remove H from all keyboards, right? After all, the survey says it's not in the top three. And given a choice between a keyboard without E and one without H, nobody buys the one without H, proving they really don't need the H.

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