We used to have earbuds that don't need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn't get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k
It is not some big conspiracy.
Wired headphones have many pros, but also many cons. Wireless headphones have many pros, but also many cons. You can still buy wired headphones for modern phones using USB-C.
The vast majority of people literally don’t care or prefer having wireless air buds. The people who don’t, still can have wired ones.
The major distinction is that the headphone jack is large and not easily waterproofed. The trade off of having a sealed water tight phone at the cost of losing the headphone jack is worth it for the vast majority of people. It is worth it to me.
If you don’t like it, go buy a Zune.
Absolutely false I'm afraid. There are plenty of waterproof devices that have headphone jacks and again I'm afraid you have been duped by apple's marketing department.
It's not rocket surgery that that having an extra hole makes water proofing a whole lot easier.
Nobody is saying that it's impossible to make a water resistant device with a headphone jack. Just that it's a whole lot easier (cheaper) to.
It's not an extra hole, just an extra connector. 3.5mm jack is literally just couple metal rings separated by plastic, it's extremely trivial to waterproof
It is literally a circular hole in the chassis, wtf are you talking about?
I mean that it's not some kind of gateway into the phone internals.