Ah, we’re back to the Nextel era, hooray! Which itself was caused by the fact that Nextel PTT was just more convenient to use by grab-and-talk than it was to bother opening the phone and switching to the headset speaker.
Tech bros and AirPods caused this current problem. Give a person something expensive, easy to lose, and unreliable that runs on batteries, they’re going to choose the safer loud option while traveling. Plain and simple. Tech bros see it as profit, completely ignoring the societal implications because that’s not their problem.
Affordable common wired headphones included with the device that don’t interfere with the power jack, nor require a battery, should always be the way.
Damn so many Nextel push to talk ads just came rushing back into my memory.
Also, how the fuck are AirPods “unreliable”??? I have a 1st gen pair that still works just as well as my other AirPod pro pair. They have hours of battery life and the case itself has an internal battery bank. How does profit have anything to do with wireless audio and the removal of phone jack??? They didn’t take away the jack to sell more headphones LMAO.
I hate wires and I’ll physically fight anyone who says we shouldn’t do wireless simply because some anssholes exist.
I’ve wasted countless hours waiting for people on zoom calls to sort out their stupid air pod issues.
They didn’t take away the jack to sell more headphones LMAO.
That is absolutely why it was done.
Everything has its place. At my desk with my computer, I don’t want to worry about keeping something charged, and it’s only ever connected to my computer, so I’ll use wired. If I’m listening to music at home or playing games on the couch I’ll use wireless over the ear headphones, and if I’m out and about I’ll use my AirPods.
Make America feel shame again.
AmericaIgnorant, selfish pricks, stopped using headphones.Let’s be real. You have to be pretty self absorbed to not realize how ignorant it is to walk around playing your music out loud or having a conversation on speakerphone instead of putting the damn phone to your ear.
And its not just flights. Its busses, restaurants, waiting rooms, forest trails.
I don’t think there’s a big difference between using the speakerphone than talking to someone next to you.
People who habitually use speaker phones do not understand the concept of “inside voice” that everyone else learned in 1st grade.
And those people should be sent to The Hell of Infinite Screaming Babies.
Oh there’s an easy solution. Talk loudly right next to someone carrying on a conversation out loud on the phone.
Join the conversation.
Some office environments too.
Last place I was at, I worked nights pretty much solo. If my wireless earbuds died, sure, I’d play it out loud. I was the only one in the building. About an hour before anyone else started getting in, if my ear buds still hadn’t charged enough I turned it off.
Partially to be respectful, and partially because some people get offended by metal even if they can’t understand the lyrics. And I mean, yeah, some bands can have unprofessional lyrics. I get it having been in the working world so long.
I feel this. There was one time where I was playing metal over my speakers, but I was the only one in the office and I was not playing it loudly. After a while a security guard was doing rounds and asked me “what the hell” I was listening to. “Cattle Decapitation,” I said, and they wrinkled their nose like someone shat in the trashcan and went on about how they can’t how anyone would like “that stuff” – I shrugged and said me neither and got back to my work.
People in this country are shit pigs and they resent anyone that tells them that obvious truth.
Why does that article feel so disjointed? Tgis paragraph was especially random:
“I engaged once with a guy who had a different opinion. He was like, ‘I don’t think so. I don’t think it’s bothersome.’”
No explanation or attribution for the quote. Just sandwiched in there
they had to get some number of quotes from random people. It’s just low quality reporting
It’s the text equivalent of a sixth finger.
Gotta get that word count up
I can’t stand going to a restaurant and having to hear a child’s tablet playing a video.
or a movie theater…
Do kids refuse to wear headphones?
Half the electronics on sale don’t even have a audio port and you have to do Bluetooth bs.
Yeah I mean I wouldn’t buy 99% of electronics on sale anyway
Their parents don’t even bring headphones
D:
It does keep the kid from talking loudly and fidgeting and running around. But yeah if the tablet/phone is loud it’s annoying.
My kids are loud too. What keeps them from talking loudly and running around in a restaurant is me. (Why no fidgeting?) If you’ve got restaurant money but no more sanity or time, then bring them to fast food, not a nice place with social norms.
Fuck yes it’s hard. Everyone has excuses, every child is different. None of those excuses are everyone else’s problem.
When I acted up, threw a tantrum, basically disturbed the peace, my mother would get up, take me outside away from others until I settled down. Did trips to the grocery store take some additional time some days? Yeah. But I learned pretty quick.
This wasn’t some stay at home mom who had tons of free time. My mom worked 40+ hours a week, was the primary bread winner, and still did a decent job of raising me.
Fucking amen. I’ve never had issues with my kids in a restaurant because I waited until I knew they could handle it. Pretty god damned simple. Plus there’s just certain things you don’t allow like…running around unsupervised? Wtf is wrong with some people.
Narcissistic indulgences
It’s a thing that inconsiderate people and just plain bad parents do
This is not newsworthy
My steam deck has a headphone jack.
If it’s on speaker they want you to join the conversation, so don’t feel shy about joining and taking the conversation where you want it to go.
New iphones come with a USB-C cable.
That’s it.
They formerly came with cable, charger, and wired ear buds appropriate to the phone.
Airlines distribute 3.5mm jack ear buds, if any at all.
It’s already a potential failure point expecting people to remember to carry an accessory allowing them to listen privately even if one is provided with the device on an incredibly common connection type.
But now they’re not included, you have to buy specialty USB-C ear buds or expensive airpods. More points of failure.
Haven’t even touched on the asshole factor of individuals just not giving an F and listening to their devices on speaker without regard to their fellow humans.
Every single flight I’ve been on there has been at least one individual VoIP calling, video watching, or gaming on their cell phone speaker that needed to be told to stop by the cabin crew.
Many countries have made it illegal for phones to not use USB-C. Would be nice to also make it illegal for them to omit the 3.5 mm jack too
It only takes one asshole in a crowded subway car to ruin it for everyone. I like to read on the subway, but they’re basically telling me that if I want to drown out their tiktok videos, I need to bring something with me with my own audio to listen to over headphones, just to not hear them.
The 3.5MM jack isn’t coming back, but having USB-C adapters would be a good compromise. I don’t see any major phone maker shipping them though, and you know Apple would charge $40 for it. Even Anker’s is like $18, and they are the current “good, but not crazy expensive” accessory brand.
There will always be a market for people like me who won’t buy devices without a 3.5mm jack
Am I the only one remembering Anker as the #1 sewing machine brand?
It could come back immediately if a law was passed requiring it but we’re too busy fighting about social issues to actually expect the government to do it’s job.
Are you actually saying that social issues are less important then a headphone jack? Like, I would prefer a headphone jack, so much so that I simply buy phones that have them, but it’s not that important.
No. I’m saying that we need to learn to set aside our differences, even when we differ on very important issues where some people have very bad options, to work together on unrelated issues.
The current system of hating each other so much we can’t make any progress only benefits the 1%.
That’s not what you typed. Also, headphone jacks aren’t why we hate the 1%. If you want a headphone jack, just buy the phones with a headphone jack. Don’t feel that you need to own the flagship phones. That’s just marketing.
They could also bring back 24-pin serial connectors, the old ps/2 mouse and keyboard connectors and physical keypads.
They’re not going to.
The vast majority of people are going to be buying one version of Bluetooth headsets or another anyway. The wired headsets they’re not shipping were mostly just e-waste, and the jack represented another point of liquids ingress on your phone.
False equivalency. USB is just as good or better than PS2 connectors. Bluetooth can exist on phones anyway and USB C has all its well documented issues.
the 3.5mm jack has one thing in common with all of those connectors: Nobody uses them anymore.
as I said: the VAST majority of people aren’t using wired headsets. We’re in the modern era using bluetooth-capable headsets. Which is why bluetooth is in literally every phone for about twenty years. It’s alot more convenient than dealing with a wire.
I use mine on all my devices. and I see others too.
You’re telling me people aren’t using connections that don’t exist any more??? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked!!!
No I’m telling you they stopped using them before they were removed, and don’t use them, even when they aren’t removed.
If that weren’t true, Samsung would have seen a gain in market share when apple did it, and would never have followed.
Sorry to get on your snark, but seriously.
A law. A law to mandate 3.5mm headphone jacks on cellphones.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve read all week.
I mean a lie is why Apple is adopting the USB type-c on the iPhone… Else they were never going to change.
A law* and thank god
So what?
You must not read much then. There are much dumber things said by very powerful people on the front page of Lemmy right now.
I’ll do you one better:
The government should mandate that there be no external loudspeakers, barring a simple ringer, on any mobile device.
I think mine might be just a shade dumber, but I can’t tell
No, “gov’t should regulate headphone jacks” is fucking dumb.
I wanted to joke that the Apple adapter would be way more expensive, but it seems to be 10€. Maybe that would work?
Wow, I was NOT expecting that to be less than Anker. Granted it’ll probably be the same with shipping tacked on.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW2Q3AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-headphone-jack-adapter
Locally shipping is included for 15 euro, and I have had a couple others through AliExpress because no brands locally make them, but the Apple dac is pulling it’s weight and then some.
funnily enough I’ve only heard good things about that Apple adapter, so yeah probably
Obvioisly if someone’s on speaker phone it’s because they want you to join in the conversation. It’s your duty to gather round and give your loud & uninformed opinions
Bring back the headphone jack. Dumping the 3.5mm jack is what brought this on.
It is simple as that. I do not want to worry about the headphones being charged and losing another charging case and making more room for another thing to charge where i charge everything else.
I do not want that at all.
It was the dumbest thing to make me need batteries for headphones. And I don’t do any of this stuff that is in the article. But BRING BACK THE JACK.
People have been loud and obnoxious since long before Audio jacks were a thing, and they’re going to continue being loud and obnoxious long after your grandkids ask “what’s an audio jack?”
Your glasses are nostalgia-tinted. The jack or its absence didn’t prevent or cause this.
Yeah I mean boom boxes existed in the 1980s.
Just buy a pair of USB headphones.
Hot take, but people that want 3.5 jacks back are just a (very) vocal minority. I’ve never met a single person IRL that prefers wired over wireless, I sure don’t miss getting my cable snagged on things or just having it dangling around. I have a nice set of wired Sennheisers for my PC and then decent wireless buds I use when I’m out.
The headphone jack is not gonna come back. Buy an adapter if you care that much or just use wireless buds like 99% of people these days. Mine last a full 10 hour shift with battery to spare, a normal 8 hour shift isn’t gonna kill the batteries on your buds unless you buy 10$ garbage.
absolutely incorrect you strange person. I will never use wireless headphones. I don’t need to charge my wired ones and they always work
This is just stupid. The point is having options. It’s not like having a 3.5mm jack stopped you from having wireless buds. What do you mean “prefer wired over wireless” when everyone had the choice of both since fucking forever
It’s almost like that 99% is because they don’t have an alternate option.
I’ve had phones from the '90s that still work, so not sure what $5 headphones you were using or what you were doing with them. I’m fairly confident that no matter what price point none of your pod things will function 20-30 years from now. Is that mean you haven’t lost them by then.
Fun fact - a 3.5mm jack doesn’t stop you from using Bluetooth!
I wish people would remember that after 8 years of explaining.
Instructions unclear. Ended up with a modern FLAC player with a headphone jack, now it’s full of music and I’m pirating again. Yo ho ho!
You can also get a bluetooth amp/dac and plug your wired headphones into there. I use a Qudelix 5k for my IEMs at home and I can just put it in my pocket if I want to take them out.
Out of curiosity what did ya get? Been looking into getting one myself, but its kinda a niche thing ya know.
Hifiman one, little square. He’s a nice little piece of kit. I put Rockbox on it. You lose Bluetooth but it dual boots into the stock firmware and hates my 2014 Civic anyway.
I am still salty about this. I was generally neutral about Apple until the headphone thing, and now I just loathe the iPhone for forcing the bullshit of Bluetooth headphones in the world.
Phones still all have the tiny speaker for private listening tho
Are those iPhones? Because I have an audio jack
You’re in the minority
Most recent Androids don’t have an audio jack either. Samsung dropped it from their flagship products back in 2020, and that change made it slowly throughout their line. The Google Pixels don’t have headphone jacks, the Moto Edge I use doesn’t have a headphone jack, etc.
Honestly, if you have a a phone made in the last few years that does have a headphone jack, I’m curious to know what kind.
Moto g play 2024. It’s not a great phone otherwise, but it was $40 brand new.
I have a Poco x3, I’m happy with it
Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro. On top of the headphone jack, it has a removable battery and micro SD slot. I have my entire music collection and dozens of movies on a 1 TB card and I’ll never have to be online or pay for a damn subscription to enjoy them.
FWIW, my last phone (until 3 weeks ago) was a OnePlus Nord N20. Absolutely stellar budget phone with a solid mid-range experience and features. It had a headphone jack AND an SD card slot, as well as dual SIM tray if that’s useful. I think it’s actually higher spec than the N30. You can still find those. OnePlus is pretty good about including a lot of that stuff, except on their flagship phones. Hope that’s helpful.
Yeah I seriously was considering one plus back in the day when they still had a jack (flagships). Was not impressed when they dropped that… And my memory, while bad - seems to recall that they said they weren’t going to remove it at one point.
Interesting. I’ll have to see if I can get that in the US. I do miss having the headphone jack.
I’ve got a Samsung A71 5G with a headphone jack - I recommend it highly except the lack of cases available for it. I shy away from non Samsung android solely due to https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.soundassistant
Which, without going to the trouble of rooting, let’s me tell apps to STFU regardless of their preferences.
The A71 came out in 2020, which was about when Samsung was phasing the jacks out. And they took them out of the S line first, which I always thought was weird - for a while, you had this feature that was present in their mid range phones, but completely absent in the more expensive flagships. They’re not the only ones that did that, of course, but it does seem kinda backwards.
My Moto also does per-app volume, and I agree, it’s pretty rad.
When I tried Sony’s 5 IV last year, it came with a headphone jack. Most of Sony’s lineup comes with it I believe.
Sony didn’t release the Xperia VI in the US this year. It’s one less phone that supports an audio jack.
Because I have an audio jack
Does it fit a standard 3.5mm headphone set? No? Then it’s a ‘jack’ and not a jack.
My Moto g power 5g 2024 has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and I bought it new. Maybe buy phones with the features you want instead of whatever the latest fad phone is?
I don’t even use it but every phone I’ve owned had/has a jack.
I was flying back from Jersey and on one of the flights a passenger in the front had to be told three times by a flight attendant to silence her phone. The last time we were in the middle of takeoff.
