Oh FFS... This is the best Apple product! I hate all the in-ear-rubbery-junk and love EarPods - they don't block the outside world, they don't tire my ear and they sound (sufficiently) good... :/ I'll have to stockpile it seems...14 years after Apple's EarPods were introduced with the iPhone 5, the company may finally discontinue its $19 wired earbuds.
The EarPods already were updated with a USB-C variant and Apple kept the price the same...Tim Apple will just add USB C, named them pro or classic and raise the price.
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doh...there goes the jokeThe EarPods already were updated with a USB-C variant and Apple kept the price the same...
This! This is one retailer's status change. A Non-Carry Forward status could mean anything from a packaging change to a new SKU (for example if Apple updates the names because they're discontinuing the Lightning version), or it could just mean Target has decided to not carry EarPods anymore because they weren't selling well but that Apple is still making them. It doesn't automatically mean Apple is discontinuing them.Everyone is taking a minor status change in one retailer's system way too seriously.
Probably just a minor packaging change necessitating a new SKU at Target. These aren't going anywhere.
Technically not true, its possible to switch to the iPhone microphone. But you shouldn't, because the echo cancellation will be worse, and its doubtful any of the piece of toast people even know how to do that.I still chuckle at people using them for phone calls but still holding their phone up to their mouths like a piece of toast. With the headphones plugged in the mic in the handset doesn't do anything.
They're a pointless product at this point. Everyone has AirPods, or counterfeit AirPods. The only people still plugging in headphones are people with very deliberate over-ear headphone choices, or people plugging in old EarPods they found laying around. Apple does not need to sell this as a new product any longer.
YupRemoving the headphone jack and pack-in earphones is one reason why people blast things on speakerphone.
Aren’t they mandated by law to bundle some earbuds with the iPhone in France? I remember reading about this some time ago. I wonder how they’ll do that if they discontinue them. Bundle AirPods instead 😋?
AirPods batteries do degrade over time. However, with old fashioned headphone jacks, I'd have to replace them every few months due to poor connections. I threw away countless sets that went bad just becuase the dumb metal connector became unstable. That being said, a set of wired ones comes in handy sometimes. I just think wireless ones seem to last longer. My Airpods 2 from 2018 still work, which is incredible.That's awful.
My 2019 AirPods 2 stopped working a few months ago, and I switched to the lightning EarPods I'd gotten with my 11PM and not touched ever since. I've got backup pairs from the ones my family's gotten over the years and never used. It's a fine experience, and now I won't have to deal with a guarantee of my headphones dying every few years due to degraded batteries. It's sad to see them kill such a useful product off.
yes, because the wired mic always has better recording quality sound (USB mikes too) than mics on wireless headsets.I've noticed that the mic on the EarPods definitely sounds clearer than the AirPods Pro. For that reason, I still use the EarPods on FaceTime calls rather than reaching for the AirPods Pro.