Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?
“My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” How often does that really happen?
Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I’ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.
I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, I’m not the average consumer, but the situation of “need to change while also wanting to use my headset” comes up often enough.
Personally I’m not a huge fan of unplugging and replugging and jostling around a cord inside my phone’s main vein though. When that port goes that’s it, I can either pay too much to have someone fix it or pay too much for the “upgrade” with a higher number and the same problems. If it had two at least when the headphone jack dies it isn’t “oh well now your shit won’t turn back on once it dies have fun,” it’s “oh well at least I can fall back on these shitty airpods.” It either needs a usbc and a 3.5mm or two usbc, and this is my manifesto…
I see your point but, isn’t this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
Sure, but what’s the use case at this point anyway?
“My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music.” How often does that really happen?
Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I’ve used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn’t support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I’ll need it again.
I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, I’m not the average consumer, but the situation of “need to change while also wanting to use my headset” comes up often enough.
Now that’s just perverse. 😳
Personally I’m not a huge fan of unplugging and replugging and jostling around a cord inside my phone’s main vein though. When that port goes that’s it, I can either pay too much to have someone fix it or pay too much for the “upgrade” with a higher number and the same problems. If it had two at least when the headphone jack dies it isn’t “oh well now your shit won’t turn back on once it dies have fun,” it’s “oh well at least I can fall back on these shitty airpods.” It either needs a usbc and a 3.5mm or two usbc, and this is my manifesto…
Yeah, I feel similar. That’s why I use wireless.