Air pods have really been the harbinger of our current era, I think it was during 2016 that they announced they would be getting rid of the headphone jack going forward, and the brought out these stupid things basically on election day.
Like I remember how people were making fun of Apple for getting rid of a function that worked fine and people generally liked, so they could sell you another $250 gadget and charger in order to listen to your phone. But they forced this change on us and now every phone is like this and I have to get a dongle to keep using my headphones.
I used to feel the same about serial ports, no lie. It was even worse because there wasn’t a single method of doing usb to d-sub that worked all the time back then.
Now it’s a million times better, but I used to have a drawer full of dongles for specific purposes/pieces of hardware.
Air pods have really been the harbinger of our current era, I think it was during 2016 that they announced they would be getting rid of the headphone jack going forward, and the brought out these stupid things basically on election day.
Like I remember how people were making fun of Apple for getting rid of a function that worked fine and people generally liked, so they could sell you another $250 gadget and charger in order to listen to your phone. But they forced this change on us and now every phone is like this and I have to get a dongle to keep using my headphones.
I used to feel the same about serial ports, no lie. It was even worse because there wasn’t a single method of doing usb to d-sub that worked all the time back then.
Now it’s a million times better, but I used to have a drawer full of dongles for specific purposes/pieces of hardware.