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PC World has an article on why USB-C has not been a viable alternative for the 3.5mm audio jack. Problems with USB-C include variable handling of digital to audio conversion, incompatible SOCs inside the cable, and non-standard analog-passthrough. In short, the cables which contain computers themselves are not standardized in behavior and the author's conclusion is that mobile devices must have 3.5mm jacks until the USB-C cable technology gets sorted out enough that they become usable.
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Bring Back the Headphone Jack: Why USB-C Audio Still Doesn't Work
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(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 12 2018, @07:49AM (2 children)
To the music industry, it has: You simply cannot apply DRM to it. If they ever manage to get USB headphones to be the new standard, one day they might label converters to audio jack as circumvention device.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 12 2018, @02:48PM (1 child)
As someone who is actually part of the music industry I can state that virtually fucking nobody* thinks this shit. It's all made up, a strawman, imported from clueless slashdot pimply dorks.
*Nobody in this case means I have never met anyone with any *credibility* that thinks up this shit.
No, not even at the evil sony, muahahaa
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 13 2018, @10:51AM
Bean counters and lawyers do and they're the ones making most of the decisions lately else we'd have a lot less music that sounds exactly the fucking same.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.