• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Water ingress isn’t the issue & there’s been waterproofed ports for decades. They wanted to make devices thinner—but what value is it when its too thin to support a jack & made of materials that now require a case?

    • SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      That’s probably just the marketing reason. The realistic reason is probably that they want to sell you their brand of wireless earbuds that need to be replaced in a few years tops