Re:Taking the headphone jack off phones is user-hostile and ...
by CaptSpify on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:03PM
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Maybe I missed it in the article, but it's interesting to me that people aren't give 2 versions of the same device to choose from. That's like saying people prefer the color blue, because they keep buying blue Accords over red Civics.
There's clearly more than the one option going into the choice here.
> According to Kilburn, HTC’s consumer research shows people prefer thin smartphones — between 8 mm and 10 mm thick — as opposed to thicker devices with longer battery life.
One data point, but that's what HTC's claiming their customer research shows, and Apple's trends suggest their internal data points the same way.