Name: ヘッドフォンジャックの興亡 (The Rise And Fall Of The Headphone Jack)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:59:38.000Z
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It was in 2016 that Apple announced it would be

It really comes down to one word. Courage.

And for the smartphone industry, it was the shot heard 'round the world.

There are several reasons why Apple removed the

surprisingly, courage is not one of them.

Samsung also just removed the decades-old

technology from its phones, even though it took

every opportunity to ridicule Apple for the

Do you want to know what else it comes with?

With the launch of the Galaxy Note 10 in August

Samsung, was definitely one of those companies

that criticized the rest of the industry for not

having headphone jacks and conveniently forgot to

mention that they got rid of it in their newest Note 10.

The headphone jack has been around for more than

So why are companies increasingly removing them from our phones?

It was it was a way for them to make more money.

components needed to make mobile music what it is

today, starting with the beloved audio jack.

jack, the quarter-inch jack was used all the way

back in the late 1800s by switchboard operators.

The larger jack continued its reign until the

1970s, when Sony released the Walkman, the first

The Walkman was also the first successful

An obvious next step was the rise of the MP3 and

the MP3 player, popularized by Apple's iPod.

It was 2001 when Steve Jobs took the stage to

This amazing little device holds 1000 songs, and it goes right in my pocket.

The Siemens SL 45 was released in 2001 and was

the first phone that was also a mobile music

device, and that set off a trend in the mobile

But the SL 45 was not the first phone with the headphone jack.

My first phone was a Nokia 3310 and that had a

headphone jack. Back then, there wasn't really

any wireless communication standard that was

acceptable enough to do good headset phone calls.

So it was kind of born out of a necessity to

deliver high quality, you know, headset calls.

By the mid 2000s, there were many phones that

could also play music, but were still limited by

Bluetooth grew in popularity around the same

time, and that spelled the beginning of the end

While wired headphones may seem antiquated, most

audiophiles prefer the sound quality from this analog port.

The reason why you want to go wired over wireless

is that compression that you get over Bluetooth.

All the Bluetooth standards for the most part

have some kind of compression, which then affects

especially when you're working out or need mobility.

Most the time when I use headphones, I'm at the

I mean, it's not that important to me, but the

few times that I do need wired headphones, like

when I'm traveling or something like that, it is

super inconvenient not to have a headphone jack.

And while Bluetooth technology has come a long

Bluetooth sucks right now, but the optimist in me

hopes that removing the headphone jack will act

as a springboard for companies to work harder at

integrating Bluetooth and wireless audio technology.

Most cars have Bluetooth audio, but a lot of

people, like, all new cars within the last five

years, cars before that have the aux cord that

So why did Apple decide to remove the jack from

Maintaining an ancient, single-purpose, analog,

big connector doesn't make sense because that

It's the mental shift that, you know, flagships

It's like, it's not a flagship unless the

headphone jack is gone. And that's kind of, you

know, Apple's fault. Premium phones are now

See, there's not a whole lot of space inside of a

smartphone. Tech companies have crammed more and

more into that incredibly limited space, and when

something becomes antiquated, it's got to go,

making the phones thinner and allowing for other components.

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