• potustheplant@feddit.nl
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    17 hours ago

    Where I am right now it costs 23EUR which isn’t that much less than the cost of the ksc75. I don’t think that making a dongle requirement is ok. Specially when there’s literally nothing stopping manufacturers from including it.

    In the age of the internet buying DACs is a non issue

    You clearly don’t know much about the customs processes and restrictions in other countries then.

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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know where you are but in the EU 23 EUR for the AD1 is a ridiculous price. Even Amazon.de (that ships most of its stuff across the EU) charges not more than 18 EUR something and that already includes shipping.

      The Linsoul store sells them for 8.09 EUR netto. For orders above 17 EUR without shipping fee. What you pay depends on how it is handled (assuming you are im the EU). Worst case is 10 EUR incl. VAT + 3 EUR small purchase tariff, the latter is less than shipping within the EU. So yes, the AD1 us absolutely in a comparable price league as the Apple dongle.

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          2 hours ago

          Ok, so no argument left and going straight to ad hominem.

          I don’t even own a Fairphone, nor any iOS, Android or Android based phone. But I guess I am a corpo simp because I am fine with the jack and DAC real estate being rather used by a bigger battery.

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            6 minutes ago

            My argument is very simple and you’re too thick to get it. Having more options is alway better, having a 3.5mm jack has literally no downsides. There’s no excuse to defend its exclusion. If you can’t understand that, then I have nothing else to say. If you like to get fucked over, you do you man.

            The battery increase goes from negligible to null. There’s even a video from the StrangeParts channel where the guy adds the headphone jack to an iphone without having to remove anything at all. You drank the kool-aid my friend.