---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191115162650.GA5255@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:26:50 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Yes, Bluetooth sucks, but it was good enough to kill the headphone jack on phones The headphone jack met its end for many reasons, but Bluetooth getting good enough was the final nail. By Andrew Martonik A smartphone not having a headphone jack isn't a noteworthy thing anymore. Even Samsung, the bastion of features and expandability, has given it up on its most power-user Galaxy Note line. While there are many reasons for the death of the headphone jack in phones - not the least of which being simplifying hardware design and internal complexity - perhaps the biggest driving factor is that Bluetooth is now good enough for a vast majority of people. https://www.androidcentral.com/bluetooth-sucks-it-was-still-good-enough-kill-headphone-jack-phones -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <C957B9C0-DEA3-4E22-8CEE-D7D3F7454E17@roscom.com> Date: 14 Nov 2019 09:14:29 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: So the Internet Didn't Turn Out the Way We Hoped. Now What? So the Internet Didn't Turn Out the Way We Hoped. Now What? It was supposed to be a utopia. Instead it's complicated. Here's a guide to our online future - with maps, graphs and cats. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/14/magazine/internet-future-dream.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <0B15612C-C3AF-46A3-8016-23852A6840BE@roscom.com> Date: 15 Nov 2019 03:17:32 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: How the FCC solves consumer problems--well, it doesn't, really FCC refers complaints to Internet providers, and that's about it. By Jon Brodkin The Federal Communications Commission's extremely hands-off approach to broadband-customer complaints has alarmed a member of Congress. US Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in August after learning of a Frontier customer who was forced to pay a $10-per-month rental fee for a router despite buying his own router. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/fcc-does-almost-nothing-to-stop-abusive-billing-practices-lawmaker-says/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 17 Nov 2019