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Alternatively, if your current phone doesn't have a headphone jack, do you wish it did?

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[โ€“] DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, Apple even bought Beats and immediately let the brand stagnate literally just so they wouldn't have any competition in the marketing space. That kind of move basically confirms that other moves they did likely had similar rationale.

It's possible that Apple is actually aiming towards their "portless phone" dream, and this death of the jack was just a step. But I'll take it for the "we must employ the closest practice to profiteering as we can in the wireless audio space" aspect it appears to have.

[โ€“] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I am curious when they want to buy Bose, as they are pretty much the most common headphones people wear around me