Re:Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL announced
by jsz0 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:13PM
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That's a bad analogy or whatever it is. If you remove the camera from the phone you cannot take photos. If you remove the 3.5mm jack you can still listen to audio and even still plug in wired headphones with an adapter.
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you said it yourself -- i can still listen to audio "with an adapter". so this is like saying you can still take photos "with a camera".
the point being that to some, the wired output was useful and significant without the requirement of having additional adapters.
actually wasn't the idea of a "smart" phone that it could replace so many separate things we used to also have to carry around...?