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K dude, have fun being a corpo simp I guess.
Ok, so no argument left and going straight to ad hominem.
I don't even own a Fairphone, nor any iOS, Android or Android based phone. But I guess I am a corpo simp because I am fine with the jack and DAC real estate being rather used by a bigger battery.
My argument is very simple and you're too thick to get it. Having more options is alway better, having a 3.5mm jack has literally no downsides. There's no excuse to defend its exclusion. If you can't understand that, then I have nothing else to say. If you like to get fucked over, you do you man.
The battery increase goes from negligible to null. There's even a video from the StrangeParts channel where the guy adds the headphone jack to an iphone without having to remove anything at all. You drank the kool-aid my friend.
I don't know why you have to resort to ad hominem.
I already pointed out a downside of a headphobe jack. It needs soace, as a fairly large socket, also the DAC reqires space, even though less so. Now it is entirely reasonable to think that it is totally worth that and I do support having that choice but I personally have no need for it, I prefer using that space for a larger battery.
You consider the battery increase insignificant but even if it is just 1%, it makes more sense to me tgan having a feature I don't need.
It's not fairly large and the hypothetical battery capacity inpact is negligible, if it even exists at all. I have a Sony Xperia 5V that has both a headphone jack and a micro sd card, while also having a (at the moment) top of the line processor, 5000mah of battery and being smaller than most (if not all) flagships. So yeah, I have to "resort to ad hominem" because it's the only explanation for you to choose to die on this very small hill where you're choosing to get screwed over.