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They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket
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About five years ago I was suddenly, unexpectedly taken ill. Not just ‘that’s a bit nasty’ ill, but ‘prepare for the worst’ ill. One thing that kept my spirits up in hospital, in the long watches of the night, was listening to comedy shows and audiobooks. So, although “What if I get sick?” probably isn’t at the top of the list of questions that will guide your buying decision, we have to wonder what other things we lose, by replacing a well-established, robust technology with a complicated, flaky one. But Apple couldn’t fall back even on this claim, because people found ways to fit a 3.5mm jack socket into the iPhones that lacked one, and even posted videos on Youtube showing how they did it.
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