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Because it sucks and the 3.5mm jack is better. Manufacturers should be forced to include it or pay a punitive fee calculated to far outweigh the savings of not including the jack, perhaps $5,000 per individual unit manufactured.
It's about saving space, not money. The jack is relatively large compared to other smartphone components. It's bigger than a USB-C port, for one, when you consider the volume and not just the width.
I have a hard time accepting that argument with the camera islands on every phone now.
News to you most users moved over to bluetooth headset thanks to the airpods(?) craze. Only a few people are stuck with 3.5 headphone (some for valid reasons other for bogus ones). Hence it makes sense that the jack can be rationalized to safe a few cents per device.
Meanwhile Cameras are used widely thanks to social media and everyone wanting to be a influencer....
It is never about saving space, it's about saving costs.
It's never been about saving, it's been about selling airpods.
They're huge these days anyway
They should've replaced it with a second usb-c port then
to confuse the casual users? Yeah good idea.