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Samsung Removes Headphone Jack From Note 10, Quietly Deletes Commercial Mocking Apple

posted by martyb on Monday August 12 2019, @02:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-jack-in-the-box^W-phone-for-you dept.

takyon writes:

Samsung spent years trolling Apple in commercials. Now it's cloning an iPhone feature it mocked and has deleted the ads.

Samsung has a long and illustrious history of trolling Apple in its smartphone commercials. But now the South Korean firm is cloning one of the iPhone features it once mocked, and it has quietly deleted records of the ads.

Samsung unveiled its Note 10 on Wednesday and, as has been widely observed, the phone falls in line with other new devices on the market in that it does not come with a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

[...] Samsung released a memorable advertisement in November 2017 titled "Growing Up." It features an iPhone user through the ages becoming increasingly frustrated with the limitations of his phone. In the end, he caves and buys a Samsung Galaxy. In one section, he ruefully inspects an adapter cable, which enables iPhone users to turn their charging portal into a 3.5 mm headphone jack.

Fast forward to 2019 and Note 10 customers may need a similar bit of kit to use wired headphones with their device. And as for that "Growing Up" ad, it has disappeared from some of Samsung's major YouTube channels.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by black6host on Monday August 12 2019, @07:22PM (1 child)

    by black6host (3827) on Monday August 12 2019, @07:22PM (#879335) Journal

    I think that by that time the headphone jack, and the need for small form factor, wired headphones, will have gone by the wayside just as buggies have. Sure, someone may make them but the places to plug them in will have disappeared.

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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday August 12 2019, @08:08PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Monday August 12 2019, @08:08PM (#879357) Journal

    Not at all impossible, although they still have places in commercial audio gear as well and those would have to disappear as well - far less likely when things like the speaker dynamics and frequency range actually matter (though again pricey). Even then, there will be a secondary enthusiast market just as right now there's still a trade in vinyl, reel-to-reel, cassettes, and even Minidisc.

    All things end, though, you're right. Just hope it doesn't have to be in my lifetime. Or maybe I do hope I live long enough that it becomes extinct but that by then I've lost my hearing.... a LONG time from now. :)

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