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  • No consumer decided it would be better without it, there's literally no reason to defend it's removal. It doesn't exist because the phone companies wanted to sell their wireless earbuds, that's it. Anything else they tell you is bullshit.

    Why are you trying to justify not having it? You can still use your wireless buds if you want if the port exists, you can still use your USB-C earphones or adapter if you'd like. It can exist in harmony along with other features, like it did for decades before capitalism called for more profits.

  • We were doing perfectly fine 10 years ago and manufacturing has only gotten more advanced, the only real reason the 3.5mm port was removed is because Apple wanted to sell people their AirPods. That's literally it. The rest of the manufacturers soon followed suit when they realised how many people were buying AirPods.

  • "just", I think not giving money to Apple or Google anything is a perfectly good reason alone to want expandable storage.

    Phone manufacturers charge a massive premium for more storage on a phone, storage which is then lost if the phone dies. A microSD card can be moved around and they cost little.

    Not everyone has a home server, in fact a very very small percentage do and being able to store their photos and what-not on a microSD card is very valuable. The freedom to add more storage is a good thing to have. Most people can understand an SD card, but not how to setup an entire home server with syncing etc, let alone exposing that to the web to access it anywhere. It also costs money to run, a microSD card doesn't.

    The only reason we don't have expandable storage or a 3.5mm port anymore is: money. They want to sell you that cloud service, upcharge you for more internal storage and make you buy their bluetooth earbuds.

  • Bit of a weird comparison between EGL and Steam... Epic Games Launcher has been around for a fraction of the time Steam has.

    Steam hosts thousands of legacy titles and it's great that most of them are still playable. Epic hosts only newer games.

  • Yep... everyone wants phablets. Apparently.

    I don't mind the cutouts (if done right), they just sit in the notification bar, so they never obscure anything anyway. That's a place Sony could have shaved off the extra height imo, the top and bottom bezels are pretty unnecessary.

    We are slowly moving to under-screen cameras now though.

  • Yeah, you can leave them set pretty high and they basically make no noise. No point having them drop super low, or go super high, as they push a lot of air for the noise they make. With a good hysteresis function, as you say, hardly ever hear them ramping.