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Inside joke. Apple's marketing guy used the word "courage" as an explanation when removing the headphone jack.

• LPisGood 3mo ago
  That decision had a lot of detractors at the time, but it ultimately seems to have been correct.
  • _carbyau_ 3mo ago
    It still has a lot of detractors but it is hard to beat such a sheer market flex.
  • m463 3mo ago
    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.
    • jianfenglin 3mo ago
      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 3mo ago
        Wired headphones are making a comeback though. They're even considered trendy/fashionable now. https://www.cnn.com/world/wired-headphones-comeback-spc https://www.cnn.com/world/wired-headphones-comeback-spc https://mashable.com/article/wired-headphones-instagram-account-tiktok https://mashable.com/article/wired-headphones-instagram-acco...
      • Shorel 3mo ago
        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.
  • Shorel 3mo ago
    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.
• RajX-dev 3mo ago
  lol