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frollogaston
49 days ago
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Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPh...
Like with headphones. Only AirPods and Beats (owned by Apple) headphones can use their proprietary extensions on top of Bluetooth for improved pairing or better headset-mode quality. Then they removed the jack to wipe out the rest.
culi
48 days ago
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So then why did almost all other major smartphone brands follow Apple's lead in removing the headphone jack?
frollogaston
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To sell their equivalents of AirPods. Apple brings in $18B yearly revenue from that and locks in users more, big win for them.
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