Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needlessly Complicated

Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @04:11AM (#11900533)

Not only that, another hilarious idea is that customers actually influence much in a market like this. People don't choose the closest phone to the hypothetical most perfect one for them - they choose out of what's available to buy, and the decision which one in particular is mostly driven by a) price, and b) marketing.

I'm yet to see a person who'd say "You know what? It would be cool if the new phones had heart-rate sensors.". It's always "oh, they put a heart-rate sensor in that phone, cool.". Driven by what manufacturers do, not what the consumers want.

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Re:Killing the 3.5mm Jack: How Simple Is Changing into Needl... by jpetso on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:20AM (#11901816)

People come up with all kinds of stuff they'd like to see, all the time. It's just that, for the most part, those ideas are not: * feasible for current mainstream tech * compatible with manufacturer's business models * forwarded to decision makers and prioritized.

Also the fact that people end up buying something different than they were initially requesting doesn't help to put more weight on their suggestions. But if you don't hear people asking for features, you're not listening all too closely.

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