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Re:New iPhone SE by dewey on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:41PM (#22880670)
You do realize that what you are describing is an edge and most users don't have a use case for 5 connections including a "test kit" right?

If a phone would have to cater to all these edge cases we'd still have serial ports on them.

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Re:New iPhone SE by iso1631 on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:16AM (#22897159)
Wired headphones cater for these edge cases.

As I say, I can live with a dongle for 3.5mm or serial (despite it being a regression), it's just another straw.

The certainty and simplicity of an audio jack is not valueless though, no matter how many people on HN say it is.

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Re:New iPhone SE by dewey on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:52AM (#22897329)
> The certainty and simplicity of an audio jack is not valueless though

Nobody is saying that audio jacks are valueless in general, just that it's reasonable for a mass market device where it has value for a small % of people to not have it.

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