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Apple Debuts Wireless 'AirPods' With 5 Hours of Music Playback
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Oh... That adaptor. Adaptor is stupid idea.
First: they break very easily. Just look the quality for lightning cable. I can imagine the adaptor will looks like when it bent around inside your pocket.
Second: You can easily loss this stupid piece of crap. Adopter makes sense when it not moving around and get throw around all the time. Like VGA to DVI adaptor, it plugs in your monitor and never move.
Third: The adaptor will be plugged and unplugged all the time. How can you guarantee it won't break the Lightning port someday?
Forth: What happens when you kiss or the adaptor breaks? You pay Apple 10 dollars for the piece of crap. You probably need several, one in your office, one in your car, one in your home. There you go, 20 dollar extra spending right there.
Hence, headphone adaptor is stupid idea.
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So, i can say anything is not essential.
I seen some people never shower. So shower equipment is not essential. I seen some people never drive, so car is not essential. Some people hate democracy, so democracy. There are countries does not respect human rights, so human rights is not essential. Some people not going to school, so school is not essential to our society. You can use boat to cross river, so bridge is not essential. There are people refuse take medication, so medication and hospital is not essential.
Right?
Maybe a name change to InexplicablyBitterTeddy would suit you better.
Well, when a man and adapter love each other very much...
I meant for missing.
And i am assuming that you cannot make counter argument why adaptor is good idea.
You do not need remove 3.5mm jack to achieve all the things you wanted to do. Apple is removing just for the sake of removing the jack. Apple thenchoice lightning than open USB-C standard, I say f that ****
No. iPhone 6S with AKG headphone using 3.5mm cable.
The iOS autocorrect works like wonder isn't it.
And I absolutely hate Samsung phone. I am more of pure Android guy. I only buy from Nexus or Motorola or load custom ROM
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First: they break very easily. Just look the quality for lightning cable. I can imagine the adaptor will looks like when it bent around inside your pocket. I have never had a lightning cable break under normal usage
Second: You can easily loss this stupid piece of crap. Adopter makes sense when it not moving around and get throw around all the time. Like VGA to DVI adaptor, it plugs in your monitor and never move. Top tip - leave the adapter connected to the headphone cable
Third: The adaptor will be plugged and unplugged all the time. How can you guarantee it won't break the Lightning port someday? Refer above but also isn't it no different to the lightning cable that I plug in and out during the day which has never broken a lightning port?
Forth: What happens when you kiss or the adaptor breaks? You pay Apple 10 dollars for the piece of crap. You probably need several, one in your office, one in your car, one in your home. There you go, 20 dollar extra spending right there. Refer above - one adapter connected to the headphone cable solves your "problem"
Hence, headphone adaptor is stupid idea.
So, i can say anything is not essential. Yes you can - nothing is essential so companies don't need to provide things because the majority want them or think they are essential
Right? No - I would describe it as gibberish rather than right
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There is some confusion as to whether the connection is Bluetooth or some proprietary wifi type protocol that the W1 chip manages.
First: they break very easily. Just look the quality for lightning cable. I can imagine the adaptor will looks like when it bent around inside your pocket. I have never had a lightning cable break under normal usage
Second: You can easily loss this stupid piece of crap. Adopter makes sense when it not moving around and get throw around all the time. Like VGA to DVI adaptor, it plugs in your monitor and never move. Top tip - leave the adapter connected to the headphone cable
Third: The adaptor will be plugged and unplugged all the time. How can you guarantee it won't break the Lightning port someday? Refer above but also isn't it no different to the lightning cable that I plug in and out during the day which has never broken a lightning port?
Forth: What happens when you kiss or the adaptor breaks? You pay Apple 10 dollars for the piece of crap. You probably need several, one in your office, one in your car, one in your home. There you go, 20 dollar extra spending right there. Refer above - one adapter connected to the headphone cable solves your "problem"
Hence, headphone adaptor is stupid idea.
So, i can say anything is not essential. Yes you can - nothing is essential so companies don't need to provide things because the majority want them or think they are essential
Right? No - I would describe it as gibberish rather than right
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Wait, I'm confused. So we have to start calling "Bluetooth" just "Wireless" now? Or is this actually a different technology? Phil made it sound like wireless was some big challenge nobody has ever tackled... And here I thought it was already solved
There is some confusion as to whether the connection is Bluetooth or some proprietary wifi type protocol that the W1 chip manages.
I like the extended piece that comes down from the main earpiece – it will make picking them up, putting them in your ears, and taking them out a lot easier without having to fumble them around in your fingers.
It says 5 hours of continuous playback, if you just wear them with music paused then you son't eat away from those 5 hours.
Quality should be similar to Earpods, instead of using iPhone DAC and then the wire going to the speaker you have DAC+wire in AirPod itself, and since these are Bluetooth these should work with anything that has Bluetooth logo on it (theoretically)
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Any sealed ones start hurting my ears after an hour or so of listening, while I can wear EarPods all day and it's ok, they fall out usually when I snag on a cable, one thing to try - cut off the wires on EarPods and see if that fixes the problem
Did you miss the part with the included charging pack that gives 24 hours of battery life?
They're actually extremely reasonably priced. Find another pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones that does what these do for that price
I gotta say, these caught my attention more than anything else so far. I'm a little disappointed at the 5 hours of battery life, but the battery case was a great idea.
EDIT: $159!? NOPE
Not a big fan of the design, Jony you could've done better than that. I think it might be cool but I'm going to wait until someone does a comparison with the new Bragi headphone they announced yesterday which should do about the same as these are promising.
http://www.bragi.com/theheadphone/
http://www.bragi.com/theheadphone/
There is the W1 chip which does something to the connection - I do not think these are compatible with other BT devices.
This is a non-issue with the Dash.
Bragi's The Headphone retails (shipping about the same time as the AirPods) for less than the AirPods, dont have the ridiculous sticks but probably wont have as easy a switching between devices process.
The battery case is really good design, but I'm not fond of wireless EarPods. It looks like you cut the cords, like something is missing. And they are pricey.
Apple W1 sounds promising but unfortunately it will be an exclusive of Apple and Beats, and Bears headphones are pricey too.
I wonder if the wireless EarPods have the same quality as the old ones. I use them a lot for making calls but I don't like listening to music with them, and I wouldn't pay such an high price just to make calls wireless.
Apple W1 sounds promising but unfortunately it will be an exclusive of Apple and Beats, and Bears headphones are pricey too.
I wonder if the wireless EarPods have the same quality as the old ones. I use them a lot for making calls but I don't like listening to music with them, and I wouldn't pay such an high price just to make calls wireless.
As you see: you can say anything you like, but it is not essential that you say anything.
I refer you to the definition i gave you yesterday, or if it wasn't clear enough: any dictionary of your choice.
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