I miss you Jack.
You wouldn’t if you’d just let me onto that bloody door, Rose you dumb bitch.
My work recently gave me an iPhone - first one I’ve ever owned - and the lack of a 3.5mm jack just fucking sucks. It makes everything so much less convenient. Bluetooth is so much slower to get going than a simple plug-in pair of cans (or even buds), and then that’s another thing with a battery that I have to rely on.
Such a garbage decision. Now I understand what fashion truly is, I guess.
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I use jack cables every day on my audio interface, headphones, electric guitar, effect pedals and synthesizer in stereo, which means twice the cables.
Hmmm, how long would your jack need to be to be used as USB?
4 pins. So standard length because four pin aux exists
https://www.amazon.com/Auxiliary-Braided-Compatible-Stereos-Headphones/dp/B07PJW6RQ7Unless you wanted high transfer speeds for something like an iPhone if you’re transferring videos, then you’d need something like 12 or 13 poles. Now imagine accidentally yanking on the port of a modern smartphone tripping over the cable.
I could only generate about 9 poles in my testing.
Just make the usb-c connector a circule and not an oval. I am guessing that the only reasons it isn’t circular is thinness (devices are thin and need thin connectors) and manufacturing costs (probably harder to get it circular with all of the inner pins)
<.< I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.
Hmm, maybe just use some variation of DIN connector? It’s a circle, but keyed to one position, and fairly effortless to plug in the right way without seeing. Also full size DIN connectors are robust as hell and can be easily replaced and rewired.
Hell, my Commodore 64 IEC bus cables still work after decades, and I can’t say the same about many USB cables these days.
inb4: people try to connect them by jamming and twisting, bending the pins into a spiral and then pushing even harder causing them to break off.
Can you explain why the jack for my guitar to my amp has to be like 3 times bigger than the jack for a phone or computer to some speakers? It’s literally doing the same thing, right?
Considering the 1/4” jack has been around for literal eons (1877, no joke), there’s sort of just tradition when you compare it to the 3.5mm from the 1950s. The primary reason being durability. Your guitar is probably going to be yanked on pretty rough a few times compared to something as little as a phone that will just rip out of your hand. On the guitar, it’d probably damage the port pretty quickly.
That’s cool, so you could just wire USB through these.
i used to have an mp3-player with only an audio jack, and a USB-to-TRRS cable for charging and data transfer.
i think it had 64MB of storage?
point is, it’s been a thing
Edit:
also my keyboard! the two halves are connected together via audio jack.
Wasn’t that how the later iPod shuffle’s did it?
This is one of the most absurd ideas I’ve ever heard. I LOVE IT
But it was broke…
It’s not loading for me. I thought that was the joke until I read and few comments…
How many ways is that?
I’m going with “infinite” ways, assuming the 3.5mm jack is a perfect circle.
Yeah but sometimes you have to spin it in the jack because it’s making a weird static noise. USB-C is king.
If your port is dirty you also have to do that with usb-c, still tho USB c is king.
