I do not really have a body for this. I was not aware that this is a thing and still feel like this is bs, but maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum's decision that I am missing.

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

tbh I looked at audio jacks in internals, and they do usually have double the footprint on a pcb than what you see outside of it, at least on low end consumer devices:

That's not to say that they couldn't put anything more compact in a highend device like a smart phone.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay but I have a usbc slot, speakers, stylus, and an audio jack all on the bottom of my new phone. It's bullshit that they needed the room as evidenced by this 2025 phone.

It can also use an sdcard. Greedy fucking corporations just wanting you to repurchase stuff you already have.

[–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are sane reasons to ditch an audio port. Like, physical connectors are fragile. Why use something that's so often broken, when you don't need to? Why include circuitry for something that you don't need? At this point, physical audio ports are there for backwards compatibility. I'm not saying wired headphones are bad - I have wired headphones - but phones are the least useful place for them.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

None of those reasons are the reasons that were stated for removing it from devices by the manufacturers.