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>I don't understand why the industry forced a move to wireless before the technology was up to it.

The industry lives on selling units. A technology that "is not up to it" and can have several iterations re-sold as improved versions is the very thing the industry prays to God for.

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Ok, but don't they want my money? Why not cater to my money? The tech scam only works if people actually think the tech is better. What's so hard about offering a jack? Especially in any situation outside of phones. You could market it with "this will actually last" or "we ship headphones".

I just pray we are not stuck with current versions of bluetooth in perpetuity. What a nightmare.

>Ok, but don't they want my money? Why not cater to my money? The tech scam only works if people actually think the tech is better.

Since APPL and the rest have trillion dollar market caps, it appears to work fine so far

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