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lol wtf
All of those things seem vastly more important than a headphone jack!
I'm not discounting their achievements but if they truly want eco friendly in mind then they would retain the headphone jack so people don't have to buy adaptors or get new wireless headphones they didn't want in the first place.
I guess? Seems incredibly minor lol
It would seem so, but it's also arguable that by removing the port, you are forcing customers to buy wireless headphones that are much more harmful to the environment, something that goes against their motto of eco-friendliness.
You can still use an adapter! Who is forcing you to buy wireless headphones???
Why not no adapters in the first place? They are still an extra thing to carry, not to mention how easy it is to lose or break them.
I can't imagine that being too much of a hassle when the adapter is affixed to your wired earbuds which you already carry.
Can't speak for other people, but I myself have multiple IEMs, and would use it on my phone and PC. The dongle would not be fixed at all times in my example.
I guess I care more about workers and fair trade, but that's a fair point. Wired earbuds are just copper whereas wireless use lithium and whatever minerals Bluetooth requires.
Don't mind the downvotes. Fair trade and eco-friendliness are both important, but sometimes you can't get both. Gray area exists, and I don't judge anyone who places one before another. Provided they understand both of course.