Well batteries and headphone jacks seem pretty different. You can add a dongle for like $10. Having Apple replace your battery is prob 10x that.

I do 1/2 agree about the AirPods thing but, I’m not convinced the internal space isn’t one of the primary reasons

Again, my point 1. was the space the headphone jack takes up.

Apple is going as far as to remove the sim-card slot in iPhones lol

Ironically my fav lossless streaming service on Android is Apple Music. Amazon Music HD is also pretty good.

Not a fan of Tidal’s UI and recommendations, and I hate that I can’t see album covers when scrolling through a playlist. Haven’t tried Deezer cause Canada

Haha definitely possible. Maybe compare side by side and see if you can learn to appreciate it a bit if you’re interested. It’s kinda nice to be able to tbh

1. As people have mentioned, it’s not about saving $, it’s about saving space inside the device which is highly valuable

2. Lots of dongles are quite high quality. Apples even sounds good, and Moondrop makes a higher-end audiophile one that’s better than basically any built-in jack. There’s a pretty big market for good USB C dongles (less so for Lightning).

3. if you care a lot about audio quality, you might know that the companies always tried to save $$ but using pretty mediocre DAC’s internally

The Apple one isn’t very durable but the sound quality is just as good as built-in jacks were. Not as much selection for Lightning :/

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USB C dongles have potential to be higher quality than your built in-jack if quality is the main concern

The difference is massive to me but my parents struggle to notice, so it certainly varies person to person

Feels like one of the best value subscriptions to me?

I use YouTube more than most streaming services and it helps support creators

Reminder to just get a family membership and split with friends, a very good value tbh

Yea no 3rd party launcher is as smooth as the default ones still, but it’s noticably better than it was when I tried a couple years back

Not being able to remove the Google search bar on the pixel launcher is a dealbreaker to me

They’re a lot better in Android 13 from my experience

Pixel 7 Pro, altho the Zenfone 10 is very tempting, I miss smaller phones.

I’ve been using it on my Pixel 7 Pro and like it a lot

What company were they sold to? And how do we know its for data harvesting? Legit question