He does have a point. Every time I ran on a treadmill with headphones it was the weight of the chord pulling the headphone out of my ears, as well as me hitting the chord and pulling it out. I'm sure they aren't completely treadmill/workout safe, but I think I believe him to a point that they are better than the wired ones.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Talk AirPods, Other New Products on Good Morning America Tomorrow
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what a dork:
holy crap.. i'm not wearing that:
what? there's nothing weird going on in this picture.. looks fine.
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as in.. headphones are normal.. i think if we're going to have wearables to be worn on our heads, it's going to start with headphones as they'll be the things most likely to gain widespread adoption.
the headphones are going to get smarter.. motion sensors will go in them.. they'll be able to gauge what the user is doing and react accordingly.. something like that is probably what we'll see first.. very soon.
i think 50year old plug won't be able to transfer data to/from the headphones in the ways necessary to evolve the headphones.
no.. usb-c.. but they'll definitely be dropping 3.5mm eventually.
I thought that too and as we had a set of dead apple earphones I cut the cable off and put the earphones in - they fell out in <2 minutes. Both kids lasted less than 5 minutes before the earphones fell out. It's not always the cables, it's simply that ears are not all the same size and shape. Why do we have different watch band sizes, clothing sizes, shoes, how about glasses styles - thats because the body is not the same for everyone.
Having a hard plastic earphone simply does not seem logical to me. Mount it in a flexible silicone housing so it becomes an in-ear setup like my QC 20's or my Jabra whatever they are ones and they will rarely ever come loose and with a few cents worth of additional silicone to give a range of sizes they will fit almost everyone's ears
You can bet the questions thrown at Tim will be soft and easy. GMA is ABC owned by Disney whose largest shareholder is Apple.
Speaking of skin tone. When I watched the keynote it really seemed like the majority of the models in the various videos and photos wearing them were darker skinned. i.e. no lily white Scandinavians like me. The contrast really did make the AirPods stand out and look cooler.
As with all white clothing/accessories I'm sure they'll just make me look more pale.
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I usually wear the usual corded Apple EarPods when running and all goes fine - outdoors. I'm too cheap to invest in anything else - aside from some nice noise canceling over the ears. For some reason when I run on a treadmill (which I hate anyways) I always end up snagging the cord occasionally and pulling them out. I'm actually excited for the AirPods because I find the EarPods very comfortable, so assuming they are the same shape I'll love them.
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When they had the cords attached did they fall out of your ears within 2 minutes?
You see a lot of analog signals going through usb-c?
Geez Flat Five, What part of Analog vs Digital don't you understand, and don't tell me you've got cochlear implants
Yes they sure did. Well 5 minutes sitting doing very little, 2 minutes doing things around the shed. The cord definitely made it a little worse, but the point is that the shape does not fit my ears at all.
How much would you expect to pay for a premium pair of earbuds? All things considered, I think they are fairly competitively priced.
it's not really even an analog vs digital argument.. i get it that that's what you were talking about when i quoted you..
the headphones need a more capable connection.. lighting/usb-c can deliver where as the phone jack can't.
I don't know for sure obviously but maybe it has something to do with products that only come in pairs? Just a guess...
Was just going to mention, why does Tim feel he has to do the PR route after a product release. To me, it just reeks of his underlying understanding that things just are not as good or as 'innovative' as they used to be. Maybe it's his stand of courage....
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How old are you kiddo? Look up G4 Cube, Hockey Puck mouse, Antenna-gate, Touch-disease... just for starters.
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It's what happens when the bureaucrats and MBAs start to kill a tech company.
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It's because Jony Ive has tech anorexia and Tim doesn't have the balls to say no...
What's more capable than the a signal your ears can actually perceive?
Nothing comes out of a lightning or USB jack that you can hear without a DAC.
Or do you just like adding cheap DACs into the flow whenever possible?
You are dreaming. Apple won't give away their Airbuds next year. If anything they would have given them away this year to placate the whiners over the lose of the headphone jack.
By the way, we already had choice.
they used to do PR slots via CEO, at least.. there's lot's of these:
i don't think t.cook on the morning show has any actual connection to whether or not he feels the company is innovating.
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headphones can, and will, do more than one thing.. with 3.5mm jack, it can only do one thing..
are you ignoring what i'm saying on purpose? or what?