aww man I was looking forward to all the UPS tracking threads.
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Apple Delays AirPods, October Launch No Longer Happening
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I don't know one person who I know who likes windows 10. I'm sorry no thanks.
Using the medium silicon tips and the medium 'wings' is comfortable but falls out very easily. Using the large silicon tips and/or the large 'wings' does hurt somewhat. The large silicon tips hurts more than the large 'wings' and I have thus settled for the medium silicon tips and large 'wings'. That combination stays in ok-ish on the left, on the right I frequently have to push them back in. In particular, whenever I use the remote on right, that earbud is at risk of slipping out. Things are somewhat temperature-dependent as well.
The supplied foam tips stay in better when I carefully compress them before inserting but that is a pain to do every time I remove them as I interact with other people (during which I always remove at least one earbud as a curtesy) or as they slip out on their own. I've also managed to slightly tear the foam apart already. I had more luck with the (large) ER5-14F foam tips from Etymotic but I broke the headphone plug on those. The large foamy plugs on my Phiaton BT 220 NC were a great fit but I broke the cable going into the box containing the battery.
Overall I have a drawer with about a dozen broken earphones (not counting the three pairs Apple exchanged for free and the two pairs I threw away) from the last eight years or so, all damaged at the point where the cable meets the headphone plug (or in the case of the Phiaton's the battery box). So far, the Jaybirds seem sufficiently untethered to not get caught in something or being squeezed too hard in my pocket.
If it's not passing THEIR QA, it must be really bad.
Either that, or the AirPod QA team was not cherry-picked from the iOS team.
Either that, or the AirPod QA team was not cherry-picked from the iOS team.
Could you not use signal strength/quality to limit the distance of pairing? Not sure if this would work in practise, but seems plausible in my head
Comparing it with the Jaybird X2s which get 8 h without any extra hardware, whether I plug my Jaybirds in every night or put the AirPods into their case twice a day and plug in the case in every three days, I don't see a huge difference since I plug in my phone every night anyway. Except that with the Jaybirds, I don't have carry a case around (and put them into the case) during the day.
Take one of the most uncomfortable products in Apple's lineup and make it wireless. (Oh wow.) Nothing like sticking hard plastic into your ear canals. Would it honestly kill Apple's profit margins to enhance the user experience and add a silicone tips to these things? Surprising coming from a company that supposedly designs its products with the end user experience, comfort, and ergonomics in mind.
I would expect that Apple will update the In-Ear Headphones design with W1 wireless eventually, but at the moment they're over a month behind releasing the AirPods, with no ETA in sight ...
I'm very interested in these. Looking forward to trying them out first. Most likely will buy after the holidays.
Looks like Apple got caught by surprise on the headphone socket removal announce
Shockers. Another botched product release by the supposed maestro of supply chain management, TC.
Aren't you going to provide us a link to your exceptionally thorough objective test results proving their poor sound quality?
No, that's lame because that is s/w related. They can always ship and then update later just like they did with the faux depth of field feature of the 7 plus.
You are putting words in the poster's mouth. He didn't say they were "poor sound quality," he said it wasn't premium. No one is suggestion, not even Apple, that Airpods are audiophile buds. Just because something isn't premium doesn't mean it's the pits.
Oh wow, how'd you get an early pair before everyone else, so you can comment on the sound quality?
I doubt it. Their product engineers are not that stupid they didn't think of it.
This is not good, another stumble. People need to start asking themselves what is wrong at Apple, clearly the company is off track.