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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by wilsonnb on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:39AM (#16966937)
The headphone adapters from Apple and Google cost $9 dollars each. If you can afford to buy a $700 phone, you can afford to spend $30 bucks on some extra adapters if you want them. In most cases, at least. I suppose availability of the adapters might be an issue in some areas as well.
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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by tjoff on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:57AM (#16967044)
Yeah, exactly. $20 doesn't even cover shipping costs. And doesn't solve the problem of having to bring it all the time.

I need to literally spend $50 to be seriously inconvenienced because the manufacturer wanted to save $0.2 ?

Also, no. We still have some to wait before anyone produces a $700 phone worth the money.

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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by intended on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:49PM (#16970788)
To be honest, if I can afford a 700 dollar phone, I can far more easily afford a 500 dollar older phone which has a headphone jack.

I don’t need the irritation of managing extra jacks for an obvious attempt to force me to give up a standard configuration.

No thanks.

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