The company also publishes books and multimedia titles, produces its own line of hybrid tablet computers, offers e-mail services, and sells electronic game systems and computer peripherals (input/output devices). Bluetooth audio in the Surface Pro 9 seems no better or worse than it is in most devices I use. Microsoft Corporation, leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. But they're reliable and predictable, two adjectives that don't belong in any conversation about Bluetooth audio unless you put an 'un-' in front of them.Īnyway. I do still use wired headphones sometimes, and I can't say that I miss having a wire dangling around and catching on everything. I’ll just say that, as the number of headphone jack-less devices in my life has increased, so too has the amount of time I’ve spent cursing Bluetooth and related technologies.Įvery time my phone declines to connect to my earbuds because they’ve instead connected to a computer on the floor above every time I run out of batteries in the middle of something every time a bud falls out of my ear and onto the floor or sidewalk, I question whether we have really improved things or if we've just exchanged one set of problems for another, more expensive set of problems. If I were to list every device in the last two or three years that has been released without a headphone jack, we would be here all day. One other change you might notice is the headphone jack, which has disappeared to wherever headphone jacks (that would totally fit on a device but no longer do for some reason) go when they die.

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