Well batteries and headphone jacks seem pretty different. You can add a dongle for like $10. Having Apple replace your battery is prob 10x that.

I do 1/2 agree about the AirPods thing but, I’m not convinced the internal space isn’t one of the primary reasons

Again, my point 1. was the space the headphone jack takes up.

Apple is going as far as to remove the sim-card slot in iPhones lol

Ironically my fav lossless streaming service on Android is Apple Music. Amazon Music HD is also pretty good.

Not a fan of Tidal’s UI and recommendations, and I hate that I can’t see album covers when scrolling through a playlist. Haven’t tried Deezer cause Canada

I think it’s mostly gaining market share cause Steam Deck

Haha definitely possible. Maybe compare side by side and see if you can learn to appreciate it a bit if you’re interested. It’s kinda nice to be able to tbh

1. As people have mentioned, it’s not about saving $, it’s about saving space inside the device which is highly valuable

2. Lots of dongles are quite high quality. Apples even sounds good, and Moondrop makes a higher-end audiophile one that’s better than basically any built-in jack. There’s a pretty big market for good USB C dongles (less so for Lightning).

3. if you care a lot about audio quality, you might know that the companies always tried to save $$ but using pretty mediocre DAC’s internally

The Apple one isn’t very durable but the sound quality is just as good as built-in jacks were. Not as much selection for Lightning :/

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USB C dongles have potential to be higher quality than your built in-jack if quality is the main concern

The difference is massive to me but my parents struggle to notice, so it certainly varies person to person

I’ve just kinda made anyone I message regularly message me on Signal or Telegram. Fuck Meta 🤷

I’m pretty techy and work at a tech retailer but, I’m a Classical Music major and teach piano

Feels like one of the best value subscriptions to me?

I use YouTube more than most streaming services and it helps support creators

Reminder to just get a family membership and split with friends, a very good value tbh

Yea no 3rd party launcher is as smooth as the default ones still, but it’s noticably better than it was when I tried a couple years back

Not being able to remove the Google search bar on the pixel launcher is a dealbreaker to me

Insane that on iOS you can’t just change the icons to whatever you want

I agree, I’ve saved a lot of money/time this way but, I don’t expect this to be a popular take here haha

They’re a lot better in Android 13 from my experience

Yep, I lost my communities when vlemmy shut down

Id say 80% Lemmy 20% Reddit now.