Glad there’s a pair of wireless earbuds with replaceable batteries now, but it’s pretty obvious that they only removed the headphone jack on their phone so they could sell more of these. i don’t want to encourage scummy business practices like this from fairphone of all businesses, especially when all it does is worsen the user experience and create more waste.
Edit for clarity
Edit 2: am i actually in the wrong here? People seem to disagree with me pretty strongly.
Edit 3: it seems like my comments here aren’t showing up in other instances. Something weird going on.
it’s pretty obvious that they only removed the headphone jack on their phone so they could sell more of these
Why is anytime when anything by Fairphone is posted, everyone acts as if they were the first and only company who did that sort of thing? They’d keep the jack and sell wired headphones if that was such a massive business.
Because the entire point of fairphone is to not do those sorts of things. I’d rather not see them go the way of enthusiast phones and use greenwashing to get them popular so they can turn around and be another unethical smartphone giant. It’s worthwhile to call them out on stuff like this.
Or maybe not making everybody throw away their perfectly good headphones?
“everyone”? That’s a very bold claim. I would assume they did market research and concluded that putting more components in all of their phones is more wasteful than manufacturing a limited number of USB-C adapters for those who actually want it. Again: They’d sell wired headphones if the demand was that high.
Framework Computers also relegated the headphone jack to a USB-C adapter. There is clearly a wider shift in the industry.
I dunno, people seem to have a real hard-on for pissing over Fairphone, in a totally weird way. And this travelled over from Reddit. And I know the majority of /r/android has long been Samsung fanbois, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. 😅
Back to the actual topic at hand, wow they’re chunkers. Ouff. Since I have a comparatively small head these would look pretty weird on me I imagine. But OTOH, damn is it impressive to build earbuds - a device usually filled with glue - with a user-replaceable battery. I kinda want to support them assuming I need new headphones any time soon.
I dunno, people seem to have a real hard-on for pissing over Fairphone, in a totally weird way.
I hope these people don’t find out that the Framework 16 notebook got rid of an on-board headphone jack and moved to a USB-C adapter as well. There might be riots.
And I know the majority of /r/android has long been Samsung fanbois, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. 😅
Fuck, I have a Samsung phone (from work, not actually mine but private use permitted) and Fairbuds XL. I use products from both companies on a daily basis. Which camp to I have to join now?
I hope these people don’t find out that the Framework 16 notebook got rid of an on-board headphone jack and moved to a USB-C adapter as well. There might be riots.
Can’t you still buy a headphone jack, though? Which to me is actually cool. Consistency, the more modular the better.
Fuck, I have a Samsung phone (from work, not actually mine but private use permitted) and Fairbuds XL. I use products from both companies on a daily basis. Which camp to I have to join now?
Ah, I’m sorry to inform you but the company shill police is on their way. You will be re-indoctrinated, probably for Apple.
Yes, it’s a USB-C adapter: frame.work/products/audio-expansion-card Due its form factor it’s basically unusable for other devices, though (it could put strain on the USB port).
You’re not wrong, lots of people on Lemmy.world just really kiss up to fairphone because of their perceived betterness in other ways. Just because they claim to be doing some things better doesn’t mean they aren’t doing anything wrong or scummy.
Also I bet there’s quite a few apple fanboys here who support copying apple in removing features, for some strange reason.
Lol, it’s funny how a product like this will likely get a solid 4 star rating, meanwhile I’ll find another that is better, has better reviews, and costs easily a quarter of this
You know what didn’t die yet? My 8 year old earbuds that have a wire and plugs into the jack. And guess what, I don’t even have to charge them or worry about losing one of them.
Especially with the growing trend to use wireless headphones to push people to buy new headphones when they don’t need them. It does nothing but create waste and lose us money.
Yeah but you’re assuming that my cheap ones are unethical and your pricey ones are ethical. It’s been proven over and over that these expensive brands employ just as much child/cheap labor as much at the cheapo brand as you say.
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