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Fair and sustainable supply chains shouldn't mean I have to throw out perfectly good electronics at home, such as wired headphones, because this company wants to save a trivial amount of money. Keeping the headphone jack means a greater level of sustainability because I don't have to replace other fully functional electronics to use with this phone.
Here we go again... Adapters exist, nobody is forcing you to literally throw away your headphones. If the small inconvenience of using an adapter is so overwhelming for you that you'll throw the whole sustainability argument right out the window and go for a company that doesn't give two shits about it, then go for it. But don't claim that sustainability matters to you, because it obviously doesn't.
Here we go again... I know adapters exist. I have one. If I didn't, my wired headphones and my wired aux port in my car would be unusable. If the large ecological footprint of an entire new product line that's completely unnecessary being spun up to use a whole bunch of excess materials that didn't need to be used to just keep the existing headphone jacks doesn't bother you, maybe you're the one throwing the whole sustainability argument out the window because you clearly don't give two shits about it.
So you have an adapter and are fine using it - where's the problem? In your last comment you said you'd have to throw away your headphones, which seems really disingenuous now.
You now have the choice of a) buying a sustainably sourced and fairly produced phone without a headphone jack or b) buying a phone of questionable sustainability and fairness with a headphone jack. The choice is really obvious if you ask me, considering the adapter is a sunk cost to the environment and you.
Do the adapters grow on trees? How does creating an entirely new and wholly unnecessary product line match up with any sort of sustainability standards? Seems pretty disingenuous to me. Try looking at the big picture and not just the actions of a single company in isolation.
Since you're repeating yourself, I will do the same: You already own an adapter, so why are you complaining? Surely a sustainably and fairly sourced phone must be an obvious choice since you care so much about the environment, right?
Good point, because it's not FairPhone that started this whole debacle. They didn't "[create] an entirely new and wholly unnecessary product line", you've got Apple to thank for that.
I see this conversation is going nowhere fast. I'm gonna end it here, if you choose to be obtuse then I can't help you.
Yeah I bought a phone without a headphone jack. So I bought a little adapter and keep it in my case. Then my headphones started to fail and I got a pair that could do both Bluetooth and aux. Now I have headphones that can be used with a dead battery or can be used without a wire. Win-win.
Would I prefer a headphone jack? Yes. But the adapter lives on the end of the removable aux cable, so the functional difference is minimal. Especially since I also have wireless charging, so I can avoid the very minor "can't charge and use AUX at the same time" problem.
I'm afraid your experience and opinion is just too nuanced for some people here. It really seems like you're doubting our lord and saviour the headphone jack, so let the downvotes commence!