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This is technically becoming less and less true as time goes on. Keeping the 3.5mm port only reduces e-waste for buyers who already own 3.5mm accessories. Fewer and fewer of today's younger generations own any 3.5mm devices at all, as more and more devices are unifying toward USB-C. In fact, fewer and fewer people today own any type of wired headphones.
The e-waste is now coming from the older, holdout consumers who are sticking to their 3.5mm accessories, as they're the ones requiring extra dongles to keep their obsolesced technology functional.
And the non-3.5mm audio equipment is, itself, also e-waste with non replaceable batteries. It's also generally lower quality than analog.
Not in my experience. I still use BT headphones I bought in 2019, but all the wired headphones I had before that were dying every year with the same cable problems. The only long-lived wired headphones I had were expensive Sennheisers with thick coiled cable, but those were always destroying jack port on my phone with their fat lever of a connector.
Cables just shit for mobile application, they're always in the way, and always getting yanked around.
And here I am still using my headphones that are older than the first smart phone.
My wife's wired headphones are also last forever. She never listens to them while moving, only when she sits at the table and her phone lays firmly on it. If she needs to move, even in a different room she takes her headphones off, and only put them back when she is sitting firmly and the phone is stationary.
Which, let's be honest, is exactly the use case we are all talking about here I think. I also mounted my headphones to my "listening post" and casually slip my head between the always open ear cuffs to reduce wear and tear from putting them on and taking them off.
This is why I NEED the aux jack on a phone: minimizes the waste of swapping my listening post when I changed from walkman, to MP3 player, to iPod, to 1st gen iPhone.
At this point, why even have a phone? Even cheap stationary player will give much better sound quality
I admittedly have a bunch of headphones because I won't make my family listen to my music that they hate, but I have different pairs for stationary listening and moving. When I am on the move, usually doing chores in house, I'll have my phone (or now portable music player since my Pixel 4a got nerfed into oblivion) in my pocket and use my wired IEMs. I greatly prefer over ear headphones, but they aren't so great when you're on the move. The only headphones I have ever had break in my decades of using them were a pair that I let someone else use. Some (many?) people are just really rough on their things, I don't get it.
Exactly. The real e-waste is the millions of wireless headphones going into landfills each year when the non-replaceable batteries die.
Wires fail too. I've gone through way way more wired headphones than wireless.
Probably a majority of waste in this context is from people swapping devices or airlines giving shitty corded headphones on every flight.
Type c supports analog audio, you can have a wired earphones with type c connector, with exactly the same parts as a classic earphone, just not 3.5mm but type c connector.
Type c also supports digital connection for interesting applications where the dac is in the earphone.
Lmfao. The audiophile community would burn you at the stake.
I'm used to catching flac from those guys. ;)
That's a good pun right there
The audiophile community is too busy masturbating to their golden powercables