A good example is perfectly good wired headphones (which can last 10+ years at least with proper care and maintenance) being swept aside for battery-powered wireless options which are 1) incompatible with older devices and 2) will die after enough battery charge-discharge cycles, forcing you to buy a new one.
Yeah but wired headphones suck if you do anything but sit still or lay down when listening to something
I love my weird headphones. They are cheap and they work. When they break I get some new ones.
I can buy dozens of pairs for the same price that some idiot paid for air pods.
the real shit is good drivers and a user-replaceable cable. a little more up front but you can still replace the part that usually breaks for cheap and they sound way better.
This is why I bought a Bluetooth dongle called a Fiio BTR5
The dongle itself is the wireless Bluetooth bit. You just shove whatever wired headphones you want into it
apripo of nothing what do you think would happen if the people who work with the atomic clocks just decided to unplug them from the network?
she meant "apropos". it's a non-sequitur but she is speculating about what would happen if the primary sources our society uses for standard time stopped communicating
All digital infrastructure would collapse if our society lost its ability to coordinate on time, but I don't see how this would affect Bluetooth headphones.
they'd have nothing to connect to
my radio still has a headphone jack, though
You would still be able to connect it to your phone. Your phone, however, would not have any Internet.
I'm generally doing a lot of movement while wearing headphones, whether it's walking, working, or cycling, so I've found wireless headphones have lasted much longer than my old wired ones as well as being more convenient.
Wired headphones do have a bunch of advantages, but so do wireless, and product lifetime isn't a great measurement when it's dependent on use.edit: A better example would be smartphones, with support for models being dropped within a few years, and them slowly becoming more and more incompatible with new features, regardless of their physical condition.
I've found the opposite, but then I wear giganitc studio headphones with a removable jack cable, so if it breaks i can just shove a new cable in.
This is something really obvious that I don't think I've actually really considered before now. Huh.
Blizzard literally deleted Overwatch 1 with the release of Overwatch 2 because they did not want to compete with themselves.
Millions of people have the physical game disc for Overwatch 1, rendered completely useless.
Planned obsolescence is also exactly the same. Deliberately making your old product stop functioning so you can sell your new product.
