Google is Turning the Headphone Jack Into a Luxury Feature For Second-Tier Phones

Expensive phones may have ditched it, but for more affordable phones, the headphone jack is indispensable

Eric Ravenscraft
Debugger
Published in
5 min readAug 30, 2021

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Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash

In the long and stories history of hardware features that have been deprecated to loud public outcry — the floppy disk, the CD drive, and a parade of…

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Eric Ravenscraft
Debugger

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.