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Nah hold on.
Manufacturers stole repairability and the headphone jack from us under the guise of waterproofing and now you make fun of people who use the feature?!?
If I had to give that shit up then I want the damn feature. Otherwise waterproof speakers exist and we never had to give up anything.
Taking away the headphone jack was more likely so they could try to make you buy $200 wireless headphones that need to be replaced every few years.
Every few years? Brave of you to assume that after owning them for 6 months or so I haven't sent all of my wireless earbuds through the wash because I didn't feel them in the pocket when doing laundry.
Now I'm using over ear wireless headphones because I can't mistakenly wash a huge set of cans.
Side note: I can wash your mom's huge set of cans
the one person who downvoted this loves corporate abuse and spending money on dumb shit.
Because said waterproofing was for accidental, rare incidents of exposure, such that you have enough time to yank it somewhere safe before water penetrated.
Waterproofing was never meant for intentional, repeated, or extended exposure to extreme environments. That’s what waterproof cases are for. You know, the kind that allow your phone to go intentionally into water.
Yea that's my whole argument. We lost very important things for some bullshit.
Should be an option, not mandatory.
Offering options costs a lot more.
Yea I don't care.
We make excuses thousands of times a year for every shit ass corporation.
Fuck em. Figure it out and stop delivering FOMO dogshit to people.
Repairability is more important than some adult childs inability to hang on to an item or make the correct decision to buy waterproof said item.