With great advancements in xo wireless audio. Is the humble 3.5mm headphone jack as important as it used to be?It's been five years since Apple decided to remove the headphone jack from its iPhones.
The change has left fans backlash, but the industry has followed its frustration. It's hard to find a flagship phone these days.The truth is that 5 years have passed and it's been a long time in technology.
We have seen leaps and bounds of innovation in wireless audio technology. In childhood, there was a blemish. But now we have codecs that almost mimic the fidelity of lossless audio.
Not to mention the added real estate from the neglect of the 3.5mm headphone jack.After dropping the line in 2016, I came back to them to watch this video and found it miserably cumbersome.
I'm not saying there's no place for a headphone jack. But perhaps our neglect of phones is just part of the industry's broad shift from analog to digital. where the charging port doubles as a point for data transfer (And that might be the next episode)
