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AirPods Delay Attributed to Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio at Same Time [Updated]
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That's not "bragging" that's flat out just the numbers. Run out of juice, place them in the case for 15 minutes and you get another 3 hours of playback.
Longest battery power of any fully wireless earbuds, find better or admit that battery technology is the limiting factor here.
I can complain my car doesn't get 250 mpg, but it's a stupid complaint.
Seeing as no one knows the exact cause of the delay, it seems premature to say the delay is "EXACTLY attention to detail". Attention to detail extends to 1) testing a device for problems BEFORE it goes to mass production and has an announced release date and 2) understanding the operations/manufacturing chain and its limitations before announcing a release date. Apple obviously failed doing at least one of these just 6-8 weeks before release. They also failed at this pretty hard for the Apple Watch release... even though they had 6 months lead time in that case. This is not attention to detail. It's poor planning from the biggest an wealthiest company in the world. And why is it that with the operations wizard Cook at the helm, Apple has has more botched hardware releases than ever?
Maybe because as CEO he's no longer in charge of production. Someone else has been for the past five plus years.
Anyone who doesn't know what the Peter Principle is, look it up. Basically it's an observation that people are usually promoted one level beyond their competence level, because they always get promoted for doing well at the LAST thing they did.
In this case, it's a double whammy for Apple, because not only was he perhaps promoted past his level of competence (or into the wrong area), but he was taken away from the very job that needed his expertise.
"Hey this guy is very practical and great at supply chain control. Cool! Let's make him CEO in charge of creativity, and find someone else to take over his current job." D'oh!
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Implying a belief that Steve Jobs was an idiot cause he personally groomed Cook for the role.
No, that's your own take on it. Jobs was a lot of negative things, but he wasn't an idiot like you seem to want to imply.
On the contrary, I've speculated in past posts that Jobs might've deliberately chosen Cook partly so that Jobs' reign would look better.
Even Jobs telling Cook not to try to do what Jobs would've done, was like purposely setting Cook up for failure.
His choice also likely helped prevent Jony, Craig, Eddy or Phil from forcing only their own style too much, which undoubtedly would happen if any of them had been chosen.
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I wonder if the Airpods can be paired to non-Apple devices. I doubt it. Will have to wait for a detailed review. I think it uses a proprietary tech for pairing up... I might be wrong though, but I would certainly not be surprised if Apple does that.
