I see a lot of people complaining that the Fairphone 6 doesn’t have an Aux jack.
Just use an adapter cable.
A 3.5mm Aux jack takes up a significant amount of space just to connect a few wires that could be connected through USB-C anyway, that space could be used for a bigger battery.
Even if there was a good enough reason to keep Aux it should be 2.5mm Aux and not the usual 3.5 as it does exactly the same thing but uses less space
So more specifically then the perspective is that if you had to choose between new phone and car Bluetooth you choose new phone yes?
Not being judgey but rather trying to understand.
I brought my stereo in the car with me back in the day that I couldn’t do the upgrade from cassette built in to new CD player but we all have different preferences for sound I suppose.
Choosing isn’t really an option for poor people. My phone was over 5 years old, unsupported, and the battery stopped charging. I was forced to get a new phone. I didn’t choose to.
My car was what I could afford after my last car needed more work than it’s bluebook value for the 3rd time that year. I had to get a ‘new’ car, and it’s very used. I didn’t get to look for a car that had great audio options. Hell it doesn’t even have 4 working speakers.
My preference is for the highest quality.
My reality is that wired audio works all the time and it’s affordable.
This is totally reasonable.
If the issue is money, we can just say “support aux bc a large population can’t afford to swap,” a lot of this thread seems to be poverty masquerading as purism. It’s the purism I can’t understand.
In the previous car I used a cassette adapter to plug in my phone.
I live check to check. I can’t afford a new phone, a trip to the dealer or a new stereo.
My preference for sound is that I would rather pay rent and eat food than waste money on technology to remove the wires. Sure it would be nice, but lots of nice things are just not affordable.
Fair enough.
It seems to me that, if money were no object, it makes sense generally to go wireless. We don’t all have to agree on that point, which I guess is the whole topic.
Money IS an object and not everyone can full replace for every new technology, but in the long run audio tech has gone through several wholesale changes. The pace of those changes are driven by what is profitable I suppose, so really it’s a question of how long to hold back. It certainly seems like we are on the cusp of a changeover.