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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] 60 points 1 year ago (8 children)

android peaked with the pixel 2. then everyone went overboard on bezel-less displays and fast refresh rates and smart assistant services and brought the whole damn thing crashing down.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ... and I want my headphone jack, back.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yep, didn't use it much but I have studio headphones that I lliked to plug from time to time.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    TBH getting a nice dongle like a Fiio KA5 is not so bad. It's small enough to just hang off the cord, and sounds better anyway, and you don't have to throw it away every phone switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not so bad?

    That thing costs 230€ vs a free headphone jack. 🙄

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Sorry, I meant the KA1 or KA3, got them mixed up. My KA3 was like $50 used.

    I use it on my PC, too.

    Considering the cost in reference to the hardware, and that I can use it basically forever, and that it's a lower distortion DAC than any phone? It's not bad. And it's a barely-noticable addon for my headphones that just lives on the cord.

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