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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Somewhat overdue IMHO.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not in any practical sense of the word but that didn't stop them from removing headphone jacks in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

~~in order to shave an additional 1/16 of an inch off.~~

In order to sell more of their "premium" wireless earbuds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Um, you know you can use any bluetooth earbuds right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

"Think differently"

Which is why they designed their wireless ear pods as if they cut off the cord for the wired variant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just got my first phone without a headphone jack, and it's thicker than my previous phone that had one. But honestly it's mildly annoying at most. A dongle works, I guess, but it's certainly weird and seems like an unnecessary omission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I moved on to Airpods shortly after they came out and honestly I have had 0 desire to use wired headphones with a phone. The Airpods pro sound great for earbuds.

If I want a real super high quality audio experience I'd use a dedicated DAC and AMP because the ones in phones have never been amazing. Plus if I'm out and about there's probably too much background noise to even appreciate good headphones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's good. Spend most of my time indoors in noise free environments and in ears/earphones do not work for me for medical reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They make over the ear bluetooth headphones too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh I am aware and own a good pair. Latency is still an issue, and my best sounding cans are wired.