Nothing beats the cable. It simply works. You don't need to worry about running out of battery, bluetooth disconnections or getting hurt in case a battery explodes (as was discussed in a thread about someone who if I recall correctly got their Bose headphones turning on fire). Wireless audio should always be a secondary thing. All devices should come with the beloved jack. Even if you purchase some respectable audio speakers or sound bars is very likely they come without it. Is really lame. But as the article mentions, these wireless headphones are designed to be purchased over and over again, hence the reason to put this technology everywhere. As someone else said it, would be awesome to have a regulation to force companies to always provide the headphone jack.
Except when it didn’t. The cables got tangled, caught, kinked and broken. Sure, the well-made ones didn’t threaten to detach from the buds. But well-made wireless headphones don’t suffer the problems you mention.
> would be awesome to have a regulation to force companies to always provide the headphone jack
I suppose we should also require everything play vinyl?
Wireless headphones have an expiry date, when the battery is completely out you have to throw them away. Up to this date I haven't witnessed a single pair of earbuds that its battery can be easily replaced. Attempting to do so might break them beyond repairability. So is not only that is the wireless thing, is that these are also built so if you attempt to open them you break them, this for me is another reason not to buy them. I do own a pair of wired Audio Technica headphones. Since 2016 they have experienced use almost every day. I do still use them to this very day. Only thing I have to do is replace the earpads from time to time.
> do own a pair of wired Audio Technica headphones
They seem to work well for you. I respect that choice. That doesn’t mean it has to be compatible without an adapter with every device on the market. (In the same way every device shouldn’t have to support wireless headphones.)
