14 DAY TRIAL // A new survey from Ting, Ting Mobile, a postpaid MVNO mobile phone service from the United States revealed a lot of interesting things about users, including the fact that they don’t really care about the headphone jack.
If you followed the news in the past couple of years, you would be tempted to think that all the users are up in arms by the manufacturer’s decisions to remove the headphone jack. It’s a growing trend, and it most likely means that things are changing forever, in this regard, in the smartphone industry.
But until now, we didn’t have any hard data regarding the overall usage of the headphone jack in the real community. We only had the fury and ire of the online community when they found out they can’t charge their phone and listen to music as well, not to mention that they had to ditch their old headphones as well.
People don’t actually care
Ting published the results of a comprehensive survey in which participated 3,640 phone users. All kind of data was revealed, although nothing that would be surprising. With the exceptions of the headphones, of course.
People have a few things in mind when they are looking to buy a new phone, with the top three being the price (35%), the operating system (30%), and specs (14%).
As the Ting survey pointed out, “most people don't seem to care so much about the bells and whistles: just 5% said they cared about the phone screen, 4% cared about the battery, 1% cared about what kind of headphone jack the phone had, and 2% cared about the 'cool factor' of the device.”
Basically, if a phone has a headphone jack or not is almost irrelevant to most actual users. Just the online community is really upset about this, which only means that the headphone jack is truly going away from the public consciousness.
