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Bela Lugosi's Dad

@fraggle I've been aware of this for a while, eBay is full of cheap lightning-3.5mm adaptors that mention requiring Bluetooth to be on. What's weird to me is the author of the post blames the manufacturers and wants Apple to crack down - when this fundamentally Apple's fault for removing a simple, standard audio interface that doesn't require expensive Apple-approved chips from their phone. You should just be able to plug any old headphones into a phone! That's how it used to work!

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fraggle

@jimbob yes& the author also makes clear that the reason they do this is to circumvent restrictions apple has put in in the first place (presumably patents)

undead enby of the apocalypse

@fraggle @jimbob this entire thing has finally made me realize why they removed the headphone jack

✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧

@jimbob @fraggle also the chips are artificially inflated in price

they could just Not require a digital signature in those. lightning digital audio is cheap and easy to make, even without the jack. they just apply a tax on it on purpose

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