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Is the fairphone really worth it?
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Sales figures are better than online polls. Online polls on enthusiast sites like android police very rarely mean anything in regards to the real world. If you listen to them everyone uses pixels and no one buys Samsung phones or iPhones.
Just go outside in public and count the people using AirPods alone vs wired headphones and you’ll see the reality is that people use wireless headphones more. Why do you think every phone manufacturer is making their own wireless headphones and earbuds now?
That pill has less than 4000 responses, and is an online poll that anyone can manipulate. It’s worth less than the hosting costs it’s using.
Most people that use wireless headphones on their phones won’t also use wired headphones on their phone. There’s just no point, and it’s far less convenient.
Your point about making more money is right and wrong. It’s right because they make more money because people want wireless headphones, but the fact that they’re not proprietary means you don’t have to buy your phone manufacturers headphones. I for example don’t use AirPods with my iPhone, I use Sony ones, so apple didn’t make more money from me on headphones. Companies are making more and more wireless headphones because that’s what the market wants.
There’s also the fact that every 3.5mm enthusiast overlooks - a simple $5 adapter on your headphone cable means you can use your wired headphones.