headphones or phone, you'll still unplug it often.
yeah, you compress the already compressed audio. this is the reason why bluetooth sucks. and because the codes are proprietary you don't even get a boost in quality from using above average bluetooth headphones.
Even with an all digital signal path, coding to a different format and then back again has to suffer a loss of quality. Different compression algorithms, and different parts of the signal get thrown away at each stage.
I really don't get why you think that Apple forcing people to use extra cables, dongles or splitters just to use a pair of headphones is a good idea. if you didn't care about it you would not argue so much with me, but instead you are defending a stupid decision from apple like it's the best thing since sliced bread. don't tell me... you already bought the 160$ "airpods"?
Sales are off, and face it, I don't think even the most fervent of iSheep will tolerate another price hike on the already most expensive phone on the general market. So the only thing Apple thinks it can do is "jack you off", <(pun intended), with the massively inflated prices of "accessories", which they've now intentionally forced upon you. Having been in a similar business, (audio sales), accessories are where the big, nay verily, huge markups exist.
For an example, we used to routinely get $19.95 for a turntable cartridge, (the needle thingy), which had a dealer cost of $5.68. When somebody wanted a "better needle thingy", we would sell them the "next step up", for $29.95. It had a dealer cost of about $7.82.. And the big trick with cartridges like that, is when a large dealer places a large order, the model numbers are specific, (proprietary), to that dealer, so you can't competitively shop around for one.
Apple has been pulling that sh!t for decades. And to me, Apple is nothing more than a gang of thieves, who make their billions off the backs of Foxconn's workers, to whom the credit should actually go.
Now, an audio cartridge isn't the easiest thing in the world to produce. They need to essentially wind a miniature transformer, and machine a tiny sliver of diamond into the stylus. Imagine the markup in a pitiful 2" piece of wire, with a couple of jacks on the ends. The tolerances aren't as tight, and instead of a very fine wire wound transformer, you have t straight pieces of wire, maybe 20 gauge, if that.
And as for that adapter you need, I'm wondering how many of those things will get thrown in the wash and ruined, or just flat out get lost reaching for something in your pocket. You know, you're att the toll booth, you reach in your posket, 5 bucks goes to the toll collector, and the adapter winds up laying on the ground, right next to where your car used to be.
