I miss them. I have an iPad Pro to make art for my YT channel and do commissions. I like listen to music. Despite having a “prosumer” device, this thing has only a USB C port. While it has Bluetooth, and I can listen through wireless headphones, my nice headphones that are comfortable for long stretches are wired, so I can’t use them here without some shitty dongle.
I went on a work trip recently, and flew from [STATE 1 REDACTED] to [STATE 2 REDACTED]. Because my phone does not have a headphone jack, I couldn’t take my above-mentioned comfy headphones with me. On top of the other stuff running my phone battery down, having to rely on this device in a part of the country I’ve never been to before, I also had to drain it further with Bluetooth headphones.
There’s too many wireless things. And really, wireless just moves the wires from an “in use” thing to an “in rest” thing. My wireless headphones need to be charged, and if I want to charge it and my phone at the same time that’s another wire and brick, most likely.
It’s got to a point where I’m considering getting bespoke devices for my “needs”. I don’t have to worry about Spotify or Plexamp draining my phone battery if I have a modded iPod classic. If I want to read something on my phone, pull out the Kindle instead. No more phone games, I’m playing an aliexpress portable emulator from now on. So on and so on.
I know complaining about headphone jacks is like… the most complained about thing with modern phones and similarly portable devices. But it fucking sucks! I hate watching videos with the very clear Bluetooth delay! I’d rather watch an entire season of Scrubs on a 5th gen iPod Nano than deal with the weird audio delay. I hate draining my battery for a technology that, seemingly, isn’t really much better than regular ass headphones!