We used to have earbuds that don’t need to be charged because they had a headphone jack, didn’t get lost so easily because they had a cord attached to a headphone jack, never lost the bluetooth connection because they had a headphone jack, and they cost less because they had a headphone jack. https://bsky.app/profile/daisyfm.bsky.social/post/3l3mfjc6sn62k
I don’t understand this logic, though have witnessed it myself. How does this work?
People that does not own a pair of wireless headphones have no jack to plug in their cheep as ‘in-the-box’ headphones anymore
or the battery is dead…
It’s higher and higher probability you won’t have a headphone available when you need to take a call. So people will start taking speaker phone calls. They don’t have a choice.
Just like in game design, you remove friction from the things you want to encourage, you add friction to the things you want to discourage. Right now we are encouraging people to use speakerphone in public.
Or they could, ya know, put the phone to their goddamn ear like a rational person. I don’t buy that speakerphone is their ONLY choice, especially on public transit.