What are the chances of headphone jacks coming back in the next year or 2?

what are the chances of headphone jacks coming back in the next year or 2?

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None. Too many shekels at stake in wireless audio.

>don't gotta pay for audio jack
>get to sell dongles and wirless headphones

Think you know the answer to that.

None.
Now everybody knows digital audio is higher quality

they would come back if high people preferred phones with jack, mine has.

but only apple has wireless audio to shill
the other brands can keep the jack and advertise it as leverage over apple
I don't the regular joe wants to keep spending 800+ dollars for phones and 100+ for wireless headphones

Ingles por favor.

I hope this is a troll and you're not such a moron that you don't realize that all audio is analog when it reaches the speakers no matter what, so you're always going to have a dac (digital audio converter) somewhere in the chain whether it's in the phone, or the dongle, or inside the headset in the case of USB headsets.

be nice

Oh, man. Wireless audio has been a thing longer than Apple's been in on it.
You can get wireless headphones and speakers for $20 that only audiophiles would scoff at.

Just quick search shows Samsung sells their own wireless earbuds, so does motorola. I'm sure there are more.

>I hope this is a troll
It is.
That being said, some shill articles claimed exactly what I said in my post.

yeah but what brands besides apple and maybe sony would be so invested in shilling them that they'd remove a feature?

It's 2018, time to accept wireless is a better experience.

Literally any company that realizes that they could save money by cutting out a feature all while making money selling shitty adapters and special headphones.

The door has been open, everyone is joining the party.

Same thing happened with floppies and USB ports -- albeit those aren't great examples, but you get the idea.

Samsung, LG, Sony, I'm sure Motorola has some that I don't know off the top of my head.
Off brand companies make wireless headphones too. It's less about Apple shilling THEIR headphones and more the dongle; you either give in and buy the wireless headphones or you have to buy a dongle, assuming you buy the phone at all. You're forced to shell out the money either way.

I'd get behind bluetooth but there's the whole security and charging thing. Maybe one day soon.

alright so whats the odds of this turning around and most people choosing to buy

>but only apple has wireless audio to shill
I think all major brands have branded headphones or earbuds.
>the other brands can keep the jack and advertise it as leverage over apple
You don't seem to understand, everyone follows Apple. There are also certain benefits from removing the jack and DAC from the design.
>I don't the regular joe wants to keep spending 800+ dollars for phones and 100+ for wireless headphones
>implying bluetooth isn't backwards compatible
Not that they care. If they spend $1000 on a shiny new toy every year, they won't care about another $100 for new headphones. It all goes on their maxed-out credit cards anyway.

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>time to accept wireless is a better experience.
+1 for convenience, -10 for quality. I want wireless audio but it's not quite there yet.

Very likely? """Most people""" don't have iPhones, let alone the newest one.
>Inb4 speak for yourself
You are not most people.

Technology works like the car industry. "Features" from high-end models eventually get pushed down to economy models -- IE: 100 dollar phones will soon come without headphone jacks.

There is high probability that your children will never even know what an audio jack is.

Yeah it's garbage. You have CD quality transcoded to lower quality MP3 in Spotify, then that's transcoded lower quality to aptX if you're lucky enough that both your listening device and bluetooth headphones both support it. Otherwise it's transcoded lower quality yet again to SBC.

An analogy would be how shitty some videos look on pornhub because it's been ripped and compressed multiple times by people downloading the videos and re-uploading them again to pornhub.

agggghhhhh
I hope one company stays in touch the the common man.

My next phone will definitely have a headphone jack, so enjoy your money Samsung.

I have my collection in FLAC. It's a good thing my phone is aging well because I don't know what I'd do without an analog output. In-car is OK because it's digital but I'd be fucked with headphones.

As a pixel 1 owner who can't upgrade anymore this thread is depressing af.

I can't believe I'm saying this but thank god for Samshit.

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Get a Clip+ on Ebay or spring for a more expensive meme player.

If I do that I might as well go back to a dumbphone. At least 4G models are finally coming out.

need 3 or more usb ports

>Wireless audio
You mean too many shekels at stake selling you a dongle to be able to use your headphones.

Normans have been using wireless headphones for a while now. Why wouldn't they make people pay for a niche feature?

>implying it's not the companies who dictate what people "want"

If that were the case iPhones would have never included headphone jacks.

I don't follow the logic there but the main point of removing the jack is to set the yearly trend on which apple's entire business model is founded

Apple wanted to sell earbuds and wired Beats until they released AirPods and simultaneously released an iPhone with no analog jack.

I wish wireless charging from higher distances were a priority
but it can be dangerous

Depends I suppose, likely not but if wireless sales are underwhelming as they historically have been and people keep getting pissed with dongles to a point where they only buy our lord and saviour Samsung we might see a change

Just keep on buying smartphones that do have a headphone jack.

The moment none have it, buy a feature phone and an mp3-player.

Fuck the industry. The one thing that is amazing about the smartphone is (was) that it is an all-in-one device. By taking features out, these niggers should totally be made to suffer financially for such a thing!

>There is high probability that your children will never even know what an audio jack is.
They definitely won't, and when you tell them that one of the arguments was having to charge the headphones you'll have to explain that you had to manually plug them in instead of setting them down on their desk once a week.

>I hope one company stays in touch the the common man.
find a phone or tablet made by samsung that doesn't feature a headphone jack

It was a tossup between a nokia 1 and a nokia 8110 for me, went with the 1 because muh apps then they release the 8110 a week later in my country
wish I had waited could be having week long battery life away from android shit

there's aptxHD as a free standard
and there's Sony's LDAC
both are better than what Apple is pushing and would be proper replacements

the inconvenience you get is that you now have to check what codec your devices are capable off when you buy
and of course that you have to keep track of charge on both of them

headphone jack will come back just in time for when replaceable batteries come back lol

>Digital
I hope those people enjoy their DRMs in every link of the chain

no, unless Apple adds it back. Most companies just copy Apple's ideas because they think it will make their phone look more "premium" and "desirable" to the western market where iPhones are most prevalent.
If anything, I expect the headphone jack will become totally obsolete save for dongles before I see it coming back.

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I think the only company that is staunchly against following apple is Samsung. They may have created their own Edge meme but at least they're not falling for the Notch meme.

Samsung about to join the dongle game

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Huawei included their wireless Freebuds recently for free if you proved you bought the P20 Pro
they also have a meme notch

they won't, last time they decided to follow apple (removing the SDcard) they saw a massive hit to their sales

I have 2 pairs of wireless headphones, they don't last long

huawei and xiomi (aka chinese crap) are just copying what they learn from making the iphones

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>chinese crap
that's true, I actually like the P20 Pro, so I wish Huawei would fuck off from believing iPhones should be the standard

Samsung tries so hard to copy Apple and they are now realizing that is a stupid idea and now they are sticking to their guns. But that won't last long, everyone has to copy Apples shitty ideas

>buy adapter
>it just doesn't works

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Looks like someone didn't pay for that license, nigga

>tfw you haven't paid your monthly subscription fee for your dongle
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>can't even use 3rd party dongles
everyday, applels descent below humanity further and further

nay. apple removed the audio jack to shill for their airpods. others removed it on flagship phones because "why add audio jack when people still gonna buy the phone anyway?"

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but most of apples' "ideas" are ripoffs of other peoples. People tried the notch display and realized it looked like ass, people removed the physical buttons long before apple, some manufacturers removed the headphone jack before apple. It's not that apple comes up with new ideas, they just set the norm

if it wasn't for the ecosystem, I wouldn't have an iphone; you just can't beat receiving messages on the desktop

it's just not worth to buy 3rd party since companies can't "rip off" apples lightning port, they have to pay royalties. so in order for a aliexpress company to make money off the lightning port, they have to A) make 10,000 units first run, and 2) charge nearly the same price apple charges

But that iphone already has a headphone jack

Oneplus 6T dropped the headphone jack to put in a screen fingerprint scanner as I've heard it
wireless audio would pretty pretty cool if it wasn't such low quality and fucking expensive

One is for my wife's daughter and one is for her bf

you're a martyr
down with apple

>One is for my wife's daughter and one is for her bf
Your wife's boyfriend?
You are generous to a fault.

>have to charge two devices now
>convenient

Ask me how I know you're Indian.

>reading

How?

>spoiler: you're wrong

I have wireless headphones now and they're pretty decent, so I don't care if static ports ever come back.

How much do headphone jacks cost to put it a phone?

fingers are crossed just hoping Samsung doesn't join this shitshow too it's the only reason I chose an S9 over a Pixel

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the device is not supported because this fag is on iOS9

i know i have 6 thats jailbroken on 9.2 and lightning adapter and airpods wont work they were only supported with iOS

personally i dont give a fuck i just got a DSD DAP and leave the house without a fucking gay ass tracking beacon

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Huawei Honor 10 reporting in. She's got a screen notch, dual camera, USBC and my much needed headphone jack.

I remember when ppl said that 3d TV was an objectively better experience, doesn't mean it will stick. Expect the headphone jack to be permanently gone from some phones and always up remain with most.

How does one little ol' company manage to kill an entire standard that's been ingrained in everything since forever?
>first they ignore you
>then they laugh at you
>then they fight you
>then you win

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