I don't like dongles. It's another piece. It plugs into the same place the charger does.
Everything else aside, the DAC in Apple's USB-C/Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter is phenomenal for the price.
Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC
by refulgentis on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:06PM
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Sure -- do you want me to steelman that too? (TL;DR: 'forced purchase' and 'can't use your stuff' effects still play in)
Re:How iTunes Is Changing on PC
by sleepybrett on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:17PM
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'forced purchase' is much different when its $8 and not $150 (and let's be clear you can get bluetooth headphones and earbuds for well under $100 at this point). Let's also remember that when apple made this change originally they packed in earpods w/ lightning connectors.
I can understand some grousing when the headphone jack was removed. I can't understand grousing still almost 8 years later. Buy the phone or don't buy the phone, they clearly aren't going to add the jack back.
Except that you are not, there exists a 8-10$ dongle from apple for lightning to headphone and, i just had to check, there exists a usb-c to headphone dongle for the same price range if you happen to have the newest gen phone.
So instead it's a forced march to buy a new dongle if you happen to lose your cheap wired headphones/earbuds, assuming you just leave the dongle attached to the headphones/earbuds.