I maaaay have taken my phone on an accidental trip in a pool and was given an old phone to use as temporary. Has a headphone port. Saw the radio app and realized how do many of my smart phones even had radio access even though they all are capable. Bastards

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[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Some do. I even have an absolutely amazing radio station app that I don't want to ever change so I don't and won't tell anyone for fear it will get ruined.

But Internet radio isn't FM radio. Killing the headphone jack killed having a device that should play music without needing to pay for anything other than the device.

Losing FM radio helps then track you and spy on you, even if it's redundant for many of you, it doesn't change that they took that functionality away so you had to pay dollars for access.

Until access to free universal wireless data is the same as access to FM radio then they continue to take music away from us

Its just an observation, you might even consider it a worthless distinction, I'm simple sharing a truth that I wouldn't have realized had I not been using this old phone that still had that functionality.

And I'm old enough that I used to have a "walkman" so it's perhaps something that you may not care in the slightest about

I may not understand what point you are trying to make and if so my apologies

[–] zero@feddit.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

Upvote because I had a walkman

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Losing FM radio helps then track you and spy on you,

;_; inescapable

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Still worth documenting the ways they accomplished the inescapable situation we now how, in my opinion anyway

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can still buy cheap tiny portable fm radios, old or new, if that is your thing.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yes but that's not really the point though.

This is about enshittification.

You now HAVE to buy a separate device instead of the wireless communication that uses radio frequency and is already in your pocket

It was a hardware feature that existed simply because it was the hardware they put in the phones to do other things as well. A onus feature that gave you increased value, until they removed the headphone jack that was and is still a contentious

[–] Ushmel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah esp if tracking is the core issue.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Did you know wifi signals can now be used by providers to track your discreet position in your own home

It just gets worse and worse for privacy, and I'm not even close to the deepend of the privacy concerned people