So we’ll see.Įvery one of these things has happened to me repeatedly in the past six weeks: Newer phones like the iPhone 8, Galaxy S8, and the Pixel 2 have Bluetooth 5, which promises to be better, but 1) there are literally no Bluetooth 5 headphones out yet, and 2) we have definitely heard that promise before. And Bluetooth continues to suck, for a variety of reasons. Anyone could make headphones, anyone could sell them, and all of those people could address the entire market of people who wanted to listen to things.Īs the headphone jack disappears, the obvious replacement isn’t another wire with a proprietary connector like Apple’s Lightning or the many incompatible and strange flavors of USB-C audio. You could plug any headphones from virtually anywhere into virtually anything, and they would just work. So, here’s the problem: headphones, as we have understood them for decades, were once terrifically simple. (And just like last year, I would point you to my friend and colleague Vlad Savov, who argues that losing the headphone jack is perhaps not so bad. If Google and Apple agree on something, it has to be the correct decision, right?
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