Phones without headphone jacks are phones with DRM for audio
http://boingboing.net/2016/06/22/phones-without-headphone-jacks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
Patel later notes that "Ditching a deeply established standard
will disproportionately impact accessibility," but misses the
connection between these two phenomena. Once there's DRM on an
output, then you can only plug new devices into that output if
you have permission from the consortium that made the DRM.
That group may make some accommodations for accessibility, but
can never think of all the use-cases and solutions that a
wide-open standard will have (for example, the W3C's video
DRM, EME, has many accessibility accommodations, but wouldn't
allow color-blind people to shift the gamut of video in
realtime).
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