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I imagine the author still has a CD drive and likely a 1.44 floppy drive as well. And maybe RCA cables instead of HDMI.

I get that this is going to be rough at first (not for me) but does the author expect tech to stay the same forever?

Of course technology will change. Every once in a while, companies need a way to sell us slightly different versions of the things we already own.

3.5mm is reliable, ubiquitous, and cheap. I'll switch to the thing that adds a 4th item to that list.

I'm willing to sacrifice it to cram more into valuable space in the phone (which is why this is being done anyway).

I'm not, currently. But then, the mobile phone market has a tendency to go in the opposite direction than I'd like, and I end up dragged along, of course.

I always felt like this. I stopped playing this game and I don't miss it.

Why?

The big screen all but ensures there will always be plenty of space.

It's being done to make devices thinner.

When the replacement options are 1) vendor and device-specific, preventing the use of otherwise universally supported audio output devices or 2) vastly inferior technology, yes it should stay the same.

Well it's very likely that within 1-2 generations everything will be USB-C so I don't see the problem especially since Apple has gone with this already in the new MacBook.

Even then.. You don't have to buy it. I didn't feel HDMI had any benefit over VGA for me for years and chose not to use it. You can do the same with this.

Maybe. If within 2 generations everything has switched it'll likely be fine, although many not-easily-replaceable devices (like cars, for instance) will still use the old port.

I think the concern is that everything won't be standardized within 2 generations, and instead we'll see the slow death of third party cables. And if that happens, it's likely that increased DRM and reduced freedom will follow.

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