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minus-squaretahoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoPhones have stopped getting thinner like 10 years ago
minus-squarekrashmo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoNot in any practical sense of the word but that didn’t stop them from removing headphone jacks in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 months ago in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off. In order to sell more of their “premium” wireless earbuds.
minus-squareunalivejoy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months ago“Think differently” Which is why they designed their wireless ear pods as if they cut off the cord for the wired variant.
minus-squareno banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoJust got my first phone without a headphone jack, and it’s thicker than my previous phone that had one. But honestly it’s mildly annoying at most. A dongle works, I guess, but it’s certainly weird and seems like an unnecessary omission.
minus-squareeclipse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoI’d prefer they make it fatter if the battery would last more than a day as consequence.
minus-squaretahoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThat what they do. Compare an iPhone 6 to the current ones, you’ll see they’ve gotten fat
Phones have stopped getting thinner like 10 years ago
Not in any practical sense of the word but that didn’t stop them from removing headphone jacks in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off.
In order to sell more of their “premium” wireless earbuds.
“Think differently”
Which is why they designed their wireless ear pods as if they cut off the cord for the wired variant.
Just got my first phone without a headphone jack, and it’s thicker than my previous phone that had one. But honestly it’s mildly annoying at most. A dongle works, I guess, but it’s certainly weird and seems like an unnecessary omission.
I’d prefer they make it fatter if the battery would last more than a day as consequence.
That what they do. Compare an iPhone 6 to the current ones, you’ll see they’ve gotten fat