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Comment by kenferry

11 hours ago

Inside joke. Apple's marketing guy used the word "courage" as an explanation when removing the headphone jack.

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LPisGood  8 hours ago

That decision had a lot of detractors at the time, but it ultimately seems to have been correct.

  • m463  6 hours ago

    I don't know if I agree.

    People who moved to bluetooth got arguably worse sound quality.

    For wired headphones, there were very few lightning headphones and they mostly sucked.

    Now with usb-c you can get a broader range of headphones (because other phones have gone with usb-c).

    either kind needs a dac inside the dongle, or the shell of the headphone, or have a bulky external dac.

    3.5mm is still king for decent wired headphones/earbuds.

    • jianfenglin  4 hours ago

      Most people don't like wire and don't care about genuinely good sound through wire vs. artificially sweetened (DSP-ed) sound through Bluetooth. That's what Apple is targeting at, the mass consumer.