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Google abandons the headphone jack: time to abandon Google.
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-6a-renders-reveal-pixel-6-like-design-no-headphone-jack/

@hector So let me get it straight. Google does all sorts of misdeeds and it's okay, but once they update one of their designs to be more relevant, it's time to ditch? Sorry, but this reminds me about the case of Dan York, who thought he was some kind of technologist. Then, one day he lost his cookies because Subaru switched to a bespoke cabin node cum infotainment system, abandoning the DIN box. Poor Dan was fuming, shaking his credentials of decades-long Subaru buyer, and swearing not to buy a Subaru again. Good grief. I think Apple have conclusively proven that wireless is far superior, if it works right (e.g. not using crazy and unreliable Bluetooth profile for telephone headsets). On the upside you get a phone that is more waterproof, and the design that does not waste precious internal volume on the obsolete hardware.

@pro @hector Well, I think I'll just continue to buy in the midrange phone category, where headphone jacks still exist. You can't easily pipe wireless into my home mixer setup so I plug the phone in when I want to listen to something off of it. (Of course, I still use wireless headphones, just have every other device going into the bluetooth transmitter is wired.)

@pro @hector (I dropped Google phones as soon as they released the first Pixel though, when they moved away from the hack-ability of the nexus phones.)