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LPisGood 3 days ago

That decision had a lot of detractors at the time, but it ultimately seems to have been correct.

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m463 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't know if I agree.

People who moved to bluetooth got arguably worse sound quality.

For wired headphones, there were very few lightning headphones and they mostly sucked.

Now with usb-c you can get a broader range of headphones (because other phones have gone with usb-c).

either kind needs a dac inside the dongle, or the shell of the headphone, or have a bulky external dac.

3.5mm is still king for decent wired headphones/earbuds.

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jianfenglin 3 days ago | parent [-]

Most people don't like wire and don't care about genuinely good sound through wire vs. artificially sweetened (DSP-ed) sound through Bluetooth. That's what Apple is targeting at, the mass consumer.

	▲	d3Xt3r 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Wired headphones are making a comeback though. They're even considered trendy/fashionable now. https://www.cnn.com/world/wired-headphones-comeback-spc https://mashable.com/article/wired-headphones-instagram-acco...
	▲	Shorel 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Honestly that "most people" seems to be more marketing driven than real opinion. When you simply can't purchase one thing, then you move to the next thing. I have several wired and wireless headphones, all for different uses, and the existence of wireless headphones don't make the wired ones less useful for their particular strenghts.

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Shorel 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was wrong then, it is still wrong now.

All my three phones have a headphone jack.

I don't have or plan to have an iPhone.

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_carbyau_ 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It still has a lot of detractors but it is hard to beat such a sheer market flex.