All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU::undefined

    • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      521 year ago

      We need SD cards more. They removed them so they can charge you 300 $ to upgrade 128gb and to force you into shitty cloud service.

      Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

      • @el_bhm@lemm.ee
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        01 year ago

        I have flashbacks to using external storage on Android. It was such a shit show of an API. That being said, external storage, to break away from cloud storage is the next needed thing. We need to own the data.

    • FireWire400
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      21 year ago

      I’d be almost ready to say that we don’t need them any more if Bluetooth headphones were about 100x better and cheaper

      • @T156@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        At the same time, wired earphones/headphones are already just as good with a lot less parts/complexity.

        You don’t need batteries, radios, and chips for coding/decoding a signal coming out of a headphone jack. You can just plumb it straight into the speakers. No need to mess with controls and all of that, which would make them a lot cheaper.

        • @beatensoup
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          21 year ago

          Don’t forget how new Bluetooth headphones require that you download an app to set up the headphone. So a whole new data harvesting broker forces itself right where an audiojack used to be.

          Check on the AppStore’s the kind of personal data one has to handover to tune the headphones. Total fuckery!

      • sebinspace
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        161 year ago

        I personally prefer my bluetooth headphones, but it’s not like bluetooth and jacks can’t exist on the same device…

        Plus, pairing bluetooth in a car can be annoying as fuck. Looking at you, Nissan

        • @KCN@feddit.it
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          11 year ago

          Yeah, they could coexist. I’m partial to non-bluetooth, but only because they come in shapes that I find more comfortable, and I’ve yet to find bluetooth ones that don’t make my ears hurt

        • @macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Yeah I want a headphone jack, but the truth is that I can’t remember the last time I used mine. I have an old phone plugged into an old amp that I can play Spotify through, otherwise I use bt.

      • @SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml
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        51 year ago

        Money from selling true wireless earbuds was too enticing. Even Fairphone made them and removed headphone jack and spat nonsense that it was a “point of failure.”

      • samsy
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        11 year ago

        The argument was saving space for other parts. That’s true in a way. But if things needed we should have this space. What’s next? Saving the space of the charger? /s