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remember when plugging in your
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headphones was as simple as plugging
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them in no pairing no charging no
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overpriced adapters just pure
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uninterrupted music Ah the good old days
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Then one day Apple said "You know what
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let's make life harder." And boom the
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headphone jack vanished Well not
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entirely It still exists on laptops just
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to remind us of what we once had Now
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every phone upgrade comes with a choice
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Embrace wireless freedom or accept your
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fate as the person forever searching for
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a lost dongle Choose wisely What really
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happened to the 3.5 mm jack was it
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courage like Apple claimed or just a
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clever way to sell more accessories
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let's break it down Believe it or not
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the concept of the audio jack is old
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like really old The design dates back to
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the 1870s originally for telephone
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switchboards Fast forward to the 1950s
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and the larger 6.35 mm jack was shrunk
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down to the 3.5 mm version we all knew
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and loved Why because personal audio was
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booming Radios airplanes and of course
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the legendary Sony Walkman turned the
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3.5 mm jack into an essential part of
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everyday life By the '90s it was the
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universal standard Anything that played
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audio had it headphones CD players TVs
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Even the first iPhone in 2007 had one
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Something that the newest iPhone 16 Pro
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Max doesn't And you know why the
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headphone jack lasted so long because it
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just worked No firmware updates no
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Bluetooth lag no dying batteries You
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plugged it in and boom audio played
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instantly But apparently that was a
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problem So some executive at Apple
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probably went "What's your vision for
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the future of smartphones?" Someone
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replied "Uh fewer holes Apple you're
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hired." And just like that the 3.5 mm
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jack was sentenced to death Apple
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officially removed it in 2016 with the
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iPhone 7 claiming it was to make room
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for more advanced features like water
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resistance and the Taptic Engine Yeah
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sure Because Samsung's Galaxy S8 and
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Note 8 had both a headphone jack and
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IP68 water resistance So what was the
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real reason simple Apple wanted to push
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wireless audio specifically AirPods And
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at first people were furious They mocked
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Apple for removing a perfectly
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functional feature But guess what
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happened next every single competitor
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followed Samsung laughed at Apple then
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removed the jack with the S20 Google
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mocked Apple then removed the jack with
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the Pixel 2 OnePlus they never settled
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except when it came to removing the
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headphone jack on the OnePlus 7 Now if
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you want highquality wired audio you
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either buy a dongle and lose it in the
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washing machine Buy USBC headphones that
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probably won't work on your next device
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or just give up and accept that your
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expensive wireless earbuds will die
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after 4 hours And yet somehow budget
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phones like Xiaomi and Redmi still have
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the headphone jack Guess wired audio is
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only for peasants right and sure some of
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you might say wireless is the future
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maybe But don't you hate it when your
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Bluetooth headphones die midsong
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meanwhile wired headphones have zero
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latency no pairing issues and unlimited
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battery life But now thanks to this
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genius innovation we have to deal with
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dongles compatibility issues and let's
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not forget the sheer amount of e-waste
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Wireless earbuds and headphones have
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built-in batteries that degrade over
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time which means we have to replace them
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every few years Planned obsolescence
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maybe but it still sucks So was it worth
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it for us consumers absolutely not This
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wasn't about innovation It was about
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corporations forcing a change to make
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themselves more money Did we get better
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battery life yes but that's mostly due
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to improved battery tech not the removal
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of the jack Did we get thinner phones no
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Somehow the iPhone 15 Pro is thicker
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than the iPhone 6s Plus Did we get
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better water resistance sure But
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Samsung's Note 8 had both an S Pen and a
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headphone jack and was still IP68 rated
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So what was your excuse Apple what did
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we actually get from the removal of the
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headphone jack more dongles more
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expensive proprietary accessories more
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e-waste and let's not forget how
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hypocritical it is Apple claimed they
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needed to remove it to make thinner
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devices Yet the MacBook Air which is
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thinner than an iPhone still has it And
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no I'm not saying Apple should remove it
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from Macs If they did every prouser in
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the world would personally fly to
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California and riot outside their
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headquarters Because guess what
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professional audio is still wired Go to
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any recording studio radio station or
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live concert setup and you won't see
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producers DJs or audio engineers using
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AirPods to mix and master tracks Why
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because wired audio has zero latency and
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superior sound quality Apple knows this
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That's why they left the headphone jack
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on their MacBooks but conveniently
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removed it from iPhones Look I'm not
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saying wireless audio is bad I use
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AirPods and they're great but they're
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also expensive easy to lose and need
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constant charging Meanwhile a cheap pair
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of wired earbuds They just work The
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headphone jack didn't just fade away It
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was taken out by big tech But what do
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you think do you miss it or are you all
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in on wireless drop a comment below And
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if you're still rocking a dongle in 2025
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stay strong We got this Thanks for
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watching See you in the next one
