I see a lot of people complaining that the Fairphone 6 doesn’t have an Aux jack.
Just use an adapter cable.
A 3.5mm Aux jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.
Even if there was a good enough reason to keep Aux it should be 2.5mm Aux and not the usual 3.5 as it does exactly the same thing but uses less space
Sorry, but that comes off as a bit arrogant. There’s still plenty of use cases for wired connections.
Older cars that either have aux or still need a tape deck adapter, that don’t have Bluetooth.
Until recently, you couldn’t use wireless headphones on planes.
On top of that, there’s vanishingly few USB C to headphone adapters that also allow you to charge your phone, so if you’re using wired headphones, and you need to charge your phone, you have to stop listening, in order to plug in to charge.
There’s a lot of compromises and trade offs.
I’m not saying that one is definitely better or not, there’s a thousands of ways to connect everything that works. Not every solution is going to work for every person and every use case.
I get what you’re saying, but no. Just no.
It seems to me that it is ALL tradeoffs but it’s hard for me to see why people would have a preference for wired connection (EDIT: FOR MOBILE PHONES) except for financial constraints. If that’s the motivator, the odds that you have an old, really nice pair of wired headphones that came with the stereo adapter for airplanes seems small. OR you fly so much that you bought the adapter to use your own headphones which also seems like not in the spirit. I suppose latency could be an issue in some cases, but that is constantly improving as bluetooth improves.
It seems like middle-man adapters (just like the tape deck adapter) and wireless charging are the answers here. Nobody wants to be the adapter guy, but the groups that we are talking about in these wired cases are becoming a minority position.
You can’t still buy new cars with 8 track players, or with cassette decks, or for some makes even CD players. Not everyone can afford to make the upgrades, but does that mean we keep putting accessibility options for these things in new cars for the people who still use them? For a little while yes, but eventually no. And I think we’re on the cusp of that. Outside of vinyl, it is strange to me to see vociferous opinions about phasing out particular technologies.
Wireless charging exists, but i still agree with you because that’s still not a fully standard feature.