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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by zolthrowaway on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @10:55AM (#16967489)
Bluetooth is lossy compression. There are plenty of reasons to still stick with AUX and the 3.5mm jack. It does make a difference in sound quality. Additionally if I'm traveling and forget my headphones, it will cost me $5 to get a pair to get me through the week. Bluetooth headphones are more expensive.

There is a guy who was able to fit a 3.5mm jack in his iPhone X. They just chose not to do it. It's not like having a 3.5mm jack excludes you from also having Bluetooth technology. We've had both in phones for years. Apple just wanted to sell more air pods. I'm not hating on Apple, they're a business, but to act like Bluetooth is a strict upgrade is just blatantly wrong and I will continue to use my AUX jack.

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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by TylerE on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:43PM (#16968712)
The reason the headphone jack had to die was so they could waterproof it.
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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by tjoff on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @02:35PM (#16969970)
There are waterproof jacks...
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Re:I switched from iPhone to the Pixel 2: One-week report by zolthrowaway on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @09:16AM (#16976527)
There were waterproof phones with headphone jacks before the iPhone X. See some of the Samsung Galaxies as an example.
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