Maybe the Airpods are magical because they disappear after you lose them or get mugged for them.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Talk AirPods, Other New Products on Good Morning America Tomorrow
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For others, the headphone is for making phone calls. Still others want the headphone to perform active noise cancelation. Some might want other features, such as a small touch-sensitive display/controller to adjust the music or audio without having to get the phone out of their pocket.
But if you only want to listen to music on your headphones, you can do that using lightning or bluetooth headphones.
Dude you need to chill out. Don't buy it then.
Apple isn't a bone-headed company making stupid decisions for its flagship product. This'll create a huge bluetooth (multi platform!) headphone market. Everything will be wireless in a year or two, cheap ear buds to audiophile level, and the smartphone market benefits with the extra engineering space.
Wireless-only on a smart phone was inevitable given the pace. In the next few years I wonder if we'd even have any physical ports with wireless charging already here. Everyone saying it's a bad move are just resistant and bitter to change, which is understandable, but there are other options if it means that much to you. Things will be ok
My B&O H8 headphones can make calls, have active noise cancellation and a touch sensitive touch controller. And also sound much better over the 3.5mm jack. All those functions work via the 3.5mm.
I can also go wireless with them, and retain all the features that work via 3.5mm.
I'm an audio engineer and have some experience with in-ear monitors and fitting those. When I saw the AirPod, my immediate thought was that the rod that protrudes downward would help stabilize the ear bud. The reason is that the part that goes in the ear acts like a pivot point and the part hanging down, though light, would act like a pendulum. This would result in the ear bud hanging on on the lobe and main its position. Regular ear buds do this too to a degree and wires do tend to get pulled and the bud comes out. I think that from a design standpoint, these should work well.
The protrusions are used to house batteries for longer life and microphones for talking, Siri, etc. The pairing is indeed "magical" if it happens like they say. The big challenge in wireless is making it intuitive to switch from one device to the next in the same way that unplugging a wire and plugging it in works. I'm willing to bet that Apple has nailed that between devices.
The protrusions are used to house batteries for longer life and microphones for talking, Siri, etc. The pairing is indeed "magical" if it happens like they say. The big challenge in wireless is making it intuitive to switch from one device to the next in the same way that unplugging a wire and plugging it in works. I'm willing to bet that Apple has nailed that between devices.
Like when Touch ID was introduced and there were bad guys out there lurking, waiting to cut off your finger to get access to your phone.
Yeah, that never happened either...
i think that's a pretty shortsighted view. think of a phone in 1995.. it did exactly one thing. think of a phone now.
headphones could morph to similar or greater impact than the phone.
it could be the thing that gets the computers on our bodies instead of in our pockets. that's what my point was
...not glasses.. not VR goggles.. not a watch.. headphones.
two different ports, one of which is entirely redundant?
the idea is to eliminate all the ports.. that's going to happen relatively soon. the plans are already there.. they'd get rid of the lighting port right now if they could. they can get rid of the 3.5 now because they can.. so they did.
technology moves forward.. always. i think a lot of people just don't recognize it while it's happening.
3D audio? that'd probably be sweet.
but it's not really a question of what i want my headphones to do.
what i'd like is an augmented reality hardware that works well and something i'd be willing to have on my body.
i personally think it would be sweet to have the hardware in the realm of contact lenses but i think we'll see it first (and soon) in headphones.
i'll ask you again in 10 years
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huh? did you listen to the actual words Jobs was saying?
"the imac is sheik.. not geek!"
can you imagine if tim cook said that?! this forum would explode..
for reference, here's what sheik means:
Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.
even if actual word was used in the roasting, chic.. same thing.
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Pretty cool. I'd wait until they had a lightning cable option, so I wouldn't have to bother with the adapter.
I also like the idea of using the iPhone's battery to power the ANC on a less bulky pair of headphones.
Sorry but I 100% don't believe that these stay in while running. I shall stick with my jaybird x2 Bluetooth headphones ($80 on amazon!).
Well the headphone jack was certainly magical because it simply vanished.
Instead of keep talking to the media about nothing Tim should leave the CEO position so a competent person can take over
research and development is now in the billions but Apple product line is a total mess
if he would have gone in vacation for 4 years and left Forestall in charge,
Apple would have had new and much better products
at least Forestall cared
research and development is now in the billions but Apple product line is a total mess
if he would have gone in vacation for 4 years and left Forestall in charge,
Apple would have had new and much better products
at least Forestall cared
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The more I listen to this guy the more I think he sounds like a broken record.
Ha ha
It's funny!If you had some sort of magical glasses that could let you see all the radio waves storming on you, particularly in the urban areas, you will see that worrying about wireless ear-peace is like worrying about getting wet by a rain when you swimming in the ocean. We are bombarded by radio waves everywhere, we just can't see it.
These useless things are yet another Tim Cook screw up. He's really taking Apple down the hole.
I actually see analog signals going through usb-c.
USB Type-C standard is capable of transmitting analogue audio through the interface’s Sideband Unit (SBU) pins.
The only thing you all can reply to is when he said they're magical? Really? So when he said the cable pulls down on the headphones, and by cutting it off it helps them stay in place, there's no "ohhh that makes sense" or even "that's BS! Here's why!" That's seriously pathetic. Mindless hate because it's Apple, that's all it is. If you (everyone who's avoiding a response because they have none) provided some constructive criticism, positive or negative, it would at least be respectable.
The "magic" of apple goes away more and more with every year that Steve is gone.
I'm looking forward to these. I'll buy them. They are cheaper then the Bragi ones. And, I think he (Tim Cook) is right. When I use the EarPods, it is usually the wires that seem to pull them out of my ears. To combat this I use these cheap little silicone earhooks designed to fit them I found on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Earhoox-EarP...473833012&sr=8-1&keywords=earhoox+for+earpods
They work pretty well, and will probably work on the Airpods if necessary.
Apple can have my money (more of it) in late October when they are released!
https://www.amazon.com/Earhoox-EarP...473833012&sr=8-1&keywords=earhoox+for+earpods
They work pretty well, and will probably work on the Airpods if necessary.
Apple can have my money (more of it) in late October when they are released!
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