• LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    Like, could I just have the aux jack back please? I can frig with my phone before I put the car in drive and just push audio through the speakers, I don’t need to be able to sort through my playlists or make calls from the steering wheel, I’m distracted enough by billboards, for chrissakes. The only thing I like about my phone being connected to my car is that I can skip forward and back, that’s it.

    • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      And with proper software support, the aux jack can do some limited pause/forward/back!

      I do really like Android Auto, but the reliability of the Aux connection is something I very sorely miss.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah what’s up with that?! My new car comes with a host of connection possibilities, but lacks a simple jack. I still use that 5th gen iPod, is it too much to ask for a connector?

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        10 months ago

        Honestly it’s probably because you are likely in the minority in wanting this, at least according to the car manufacturers. Cell phones haven’t had audio jacks for a few years now. Most iPods are in junk drawers, dying long and slow deaths. Take a look around the next time you are in a crowd, the people with headphones on, like 90% of them are going to be airpods or other Bluetooth style headphones.

        Ain’t saying I like it either, don’t get me wrong, but I imagine that’s probably the logic behind it.