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Re:AirPods don't “just work” by CRConrad on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:30AM (#30113768)
> get an adapter, with the additional downside that you can no longer charge the phone while using those headphones.

Shouldn't such an adapter have a female USB-C connector and pass that through to the male one, with the headphone jack being branched off? Do those not exist, or are they prohibitively expensive? Did the Apple "dongle" mentioned in sibling comments do it that way? (Sure oughta, IMO.)

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Re:AirPods don't “just work” by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:11AM (#30114123)
The official Apple one, at least, does not do that. I don’t know if there are others which do.
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Re:AirPods don't “just work” by CRConrad on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:17AM (#30127497)
Then one would think someone else has exploited such an obvious(?) market opportunity. (BTW, I deliberately didn't write "with a T-branch for the audio jack" or similar, because the stem of the T should obviously be the male USB-C going up into the phone, so the audio and the incoming USB-C go out to the sides. Then you can still stand the phone upright on top of them.)
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