EP 047 · APR 20 · 52:14 ● EP 047 · LIVE · 52:14
Is the 3.5mm headphone jack ever coming back? (No.)
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Is the 3.5mm headphone jack ever coming back? (No.)
A fifty-two-minute argument about a tiny metal hole. Matt thinks it's coming back when the EU forces Apple's hand. Michael thinks it's gone for good. Both of them own at least four pairs of wired IEMs.
00:00 11:42 / 52:14 52:14
CHAPTERS / chapters · timestamped
00:00
Cold open: Michael plugs in his 2008 iPod
04:12
The year Apple dropped the jack, and why
11:40
Which phones still have it (a shorter list than you think)
19:25
Bluetooth codecs, aptX, LDAC, and the lossless question
28:50
The modular phone rumor Matt refuses to drop
38:15
Listener question: dongles, forever?
47:02
What we'd bet on for 2027
LINKS FROM THE EPISODE / links · from the episode
- Sony WH-1000XM5 review (Oct 2025)
- The Essential Phone post-mortem, Wired
- Fairphone 6 hands-on (video)
- Apple HealthKit audio docs
- Matt's dongle drawer, photographed
FOOTNOTE / footnote · @02:14
"Michael dropped his first iPod in a swimming pool in 2006 and has held a grudge against Bluetooth ever since. He is, objectively, wrong, but we let him have this one."
— MATT, 2:14
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