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Honest question: why?
Type C headphones could easily be a thing (and are already). Then you just have the one port, which to me seems better.
Transparency: I'm someone who just uses Bluetooth headphones and I love them, so I have no real horse in this race. I just like not catching a cord on doorknobs anymore, lol
Point 2 is incredibly frustrating. That the ewaste problem has become so much better understood and yet the trend is to keep creating more of it.
I think Pine64 is making Bluetooth earbuds, but like their other stuff it aims to be super hackable and fixable. Wish that was the norm instead of solvent welding.
Tell this to apple. They're incredibly frustrating to replace yourself, if you even do so.
Absolutely. I've seen plenty of devices where self-repair was an "eh" afterthought at best.
Apple offensively attacks your attempts to fix the thing you purchased yourself with your own hard-earned money. They're positively evil.
Which is why it's so annoying watching all the other mainstream companies feel compelled to just ape them in every way.
games suck with bluetooth headphones due to latency, many workplaces outright ban even carrying them, and you cant charge and use wired at the same time without at least 2 ports. Some wired headphones are cheap, like 5 bucks even. Also you need to charge BT headphones, and some people have expensive 300 dollar plus headphones that are made obselete by not having a headphone jack.
Workplaces ban possession of Bluetooth headphones? Yeesh, lofi beats in one ear is the only thing that kept me from strangling some people as they took 15 minutes to explain "I can't send an email and I forgot my password and I lost my phone what do I do."
Half the appeal of Bluetooth earbuds (without the silly stems) was the secret agent appeal of giving your brain something to fixate on in stupid jobs where you stand around all day.
Unless it's literally around dangerous machinery or something I guess?
Anyway sorry this isn't antiwork but still lol. I like my Bluetooth earbuds, but I think headphone jacks should be standard too.
yeah ive had one that as strict about it before ... they can be used as tiny wireless remote recording devices , so in places where secrecy is important Bluetooth is no good.
Also hackers have demonstrated the ability to gain remote access to a device through overpowering a bluetooth signal from as far as a kilometer away using a radio apparently.
You wear one port twice as often though.