🎶 You dumb motherfuckers want a key change? 🎶

Maybe if they were trying to sell Erector Sets.

Then within few weeks to months after the jack removal and introduction of AP, the market got flooded with them. Don’t tell me it’s a coincidence.

You can crawl the way back machine though and find that this just isn’t really true in an appreciable way. Yes, after 2016 we start to see more and more wireless headphones but is that because of the iPhone or because Moore’s Law means standards increase, production gets cheaper and form factors get smaller?

It may sound like a good thing to have so many choices, except you’re losing the original choice of whether you want it in the first place.

I don’t disagree with you at all which is why I still make it a point to only buy phones exclusively with 3.5mm jacks still included.

And I’m sorry, but the whole idea of “true wireless” is fucking terrible.

That’s just, like, your opinion, man. That’s totally subjective and your taste. The ability for me to put earbuds in under earpro is masterful. That I can do work and keep my phone somewhere off to the side and out of harms way is beneficial to me. That I don’t have to worry about routing a cable through my clothes to prevent it getting grabbed by moving machinery and parts is a definite benefit.

And I’m sure absolutely none of that applies to you and that’s okay! It’s why I still advocate for 3.5mm jacks because my use, and your use, is totally different and deserve different accomodations.

I honestly don’t think it made a noticeable difference in terms of selling AirPods, it simply reduced cost.

I only buy phones with 3.5mm jacks on principle, and yet I stilled jumped at the chance to get Pixel Buds cheaper when I got my 5a because of how convenient they are. The decision between wired and wireless is now nearly exclusively because you prefer either fidelity or convenience over the other. Not whether or not your phone supports them. Besides, if you’re picking fidelity you probably scrutinize much more on a phone than headphone jack or not.

This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.

Lmao isn’t professional when having a work conversation with your boss but lol definitely is, so it’s clearly superior lol

It’ll be nice to see who’s immediately on the take, followed by learning those who will swallow it to the hilt.

Imagine if you rounded up all the hateful, power hungry, bigoted misanthropes from the Warez forums of old and combined them into one. That’s Empress.

Imagine the absolute reckoning if someone managed to touch her with a blade of grass. The singularity would reverse the big bang.