No they don’t intend you to use the adapter. They want you to buy their Bluetooth earbuds. They remove the headphone jack at the same time they introduce the earbuds. It’s about pushing sales of a disposable electronic thing. To increase their overall revenue. Apple demonstrated this by huge sales of their earbuds. And everyone else once money so they’re following suit. The reason Fair phone is pissing us off is because they said they weren’t like other corporations, they didn’t want extra e-waste, they were doing things to be sustainable, and then they pull the same dick head move. It feels like betrayal
The idea is that you don’t detach the adapter from your headphones. My experience is that it kinda works, there are even ones that allow you to charge at the same time.
I have some sympathy for Fairphone in that regard because they pay more for the materials and workers than Apple, so it forces their hand to a degree to save costs at other places. A friend has the Fairphone 3 and says the camera is unusably bad… So yeah, they cut costs and consumers stay away because they may need them. I need two physical SIM slots, for example and Fairphone has one since the 4 or so.
No, they think https://shop.fairphone.com/shop/usb-c-to-mini-audio-jack-adapter-3-5mm-18 is fine. (I’m not agreeing with them.)
No they don’t intend you to use the adapter. They want you to buy their Bluetooth earbuds. They remove the headphone jack at the same time they introduce the earbuds. It’s about pushing sales of a disposable electronic thing. To increase their overall revenue. Apple demonstrated this by huge sales of their earbuds. And everyone else once money so they’re following suit. The reason Fair phone is pissing us off is because they said they weren’t like other corporations, they didn’t want extra e-waste, they were doing things to be sustainable, and then they pull the same dick head move. It feels like betrayal
Thanks, but pfffff. So I have to carry around another tiny thing I can lose easily. No thanks.
The idea is that you don’t detach the adapter from your headphones. My experience is that it kinda works, there are even ones that allow you to charge at the same time.
I have some sympathy for Fairphone in that regard because they pay more for the materials and workers than Apple, so it forces their hand to a degree to save costs at other places. A friend has the Fairphone 3 and says the camera is unusably bad… So yeah, they cut costs and consumers stay away because they may need them. I need two physical SIM slots, for example and Fairphone has one since the 4 or so.
Headphone jack is not about cost cutting, it’s about selling something with a higher profit margin.
And not detaching the adapter doesn’t work when you have multiple devices.