And they are really horrible looking. Two straws hanging out of your ears. All they need is a an obnoxiously bright blue blinking light
Sticks a bent q-tip in each ear. Now I can walk around looking like I spent the big bucks.
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Sticks a bent q-tip in each ear. Now I can walk around looking like I spent the big bucks.
Yes, now that is obvious. But on the early stage, complains have been exactly the same. You can go back and read in this forum. And I am fine with people complaining, makes this forum more fun to read
I tested out a pair of broken EarPods (cut the cord, they were pretty beat up) and they didn't fall out but I couldn't stop thinking about "what if". I think the engineering/technology involved to get to that point pushed the price beyond many (or most) consumers. I agree 110%, if you're using the wired Apple EarPods and don't want to waste money or have a need for wireless there would be no reason.
Far as the sound quality the new trend is to stuff a DAC/amp and or use some kind of DSP chip to correctly tune the signal. It's amazing what some companies are doing with DSP these days and micro DACs with built in amps. Like I said it's leaps and bounds better than older BT headphones. It's mostly coming down to price with the tech used in the latest wave of wireless cans. Hard to justify 499 for a good sounding pair of wireless headphones over many good 100-150 market if you're on a budget (even cheaper than 100 bucks).
To me it looks like you're on Apple's stock option plan.
Apple has often introduced proprietary interfaces (or pty versions of standards) only to change course after a short time, hence the larger than average dongle collection over the years.
Marketing? Press office ?
So prioritizing that tweaking of the iPhone6S that became the iPhone7 gobbled up so many resources in this 100K+ employee corporate juggernaut, that it couldn't work on tweaking the Mac line?
What drugs are you on ?
Yep, marketing lingo.
Have you ever seen a future product roadmap from Apple ?
Not unless you're working in their product mktg dept.
You have got to be kitten me.
I may well be in a minority but I rather like the AirPods and I will certainly be buying them. Don't get me wrong, they sure as hell aren't going to replace my good wired cans, they probably won't even replace my Sony Bluetooth headphones. I spent a lot of money on those two because they specifically offer excellent sound quality.
I don't expect that from the AirPods, if they just match what's already available with the current EarPods then, ok, i find them acceptable, just. They wouldn't be my first choice for a proper listening session, not by a very long shot. But they are perfectly acceptable sonically for some situations. I've actually experienced worse sound from some rather expensive cans to be honest, even expensive ones can turn out to be complete and total lemons from time to time.
But I do definitely see a place in my collection for the AirPods as an additional set, for specific purposes, not as my main or only headphones. I've wanted truly wireless buds for a good many years, since they were nothing but science fiction to be honest, yeah I'm getting old
The design doesn't bother me at all, they're EarPods without wires, no difference there, might look odd to begin with without the wire because that's what we're used to seeing. But keeping the same design might be a sensible move for Apple, how many millions of people already just use the EarPods that came with the phone, lot's I expect. If those people want wireless buds, then they might be happy enough to get ones that look just like the headphones they've been using for years.
There are some nicer designs out there in the wireless buds department, but there's some awful ones too. Some of them look good in marketing photos, but when you see them in the flesh they stick so far out of your ears you could pass as an extra in Red Dwarf. (I was going to say Star Trek, it's better known, but I loooooovvee Red Dwarf so there
)I can see me working away in the garden, or on the car, various other things, where my wired cans are a pain in the butt because the wire gets in the way and I choke myself
The Bluetooth over the ear cans aren't much better, as good as they are at keeping themselves gripped to my noggin normally, they sometimes slip off or down and just annoy me sometimes. But, earbuds with no wires whatsoever, now thats the answer to my problems.And what would they run on those in-house cpus that wouldn't have any licence to x86 instruction?
I am really looking forward to this event even so I cannot imagine Apple introduces anything that I might get interested. I will get interested once they release either a 12"-14" laptop with a quad core CPU, I am talking about Geekbench scores of 12000+ or an iMac with a 6-core CPU. In addition those ridiculous cost for the SSD must stop. The extra cost for the 1TB SSD are a rip-off
Well: Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro X, and any other Apple app... plus any application on the App Store would natively run without any work (as for the last few months, MAS developers have been submitting the binaries rather than the full compiled code).
Let's see what else. Probably Adobe software and other bigger players; if this is a move they've been planning, they'll have been talking with all the main companies. Just remember when the introduced things like the Retina Display. A load of large developers already had native Retina apps ready.
They won't be as incompetent to suddenly release an architecture change without any foresight.
If the OLED TouchBar just mirrors the status bar it's absolutely frakking pointless.
The ONLY use would be TouchID, and *maybe* app dependent shortcuts, but let's be honest, power Mac users already have the muscle memory for all the keyboard shortcuts, and so moving the hands from the typing position to touch a button with no sensory feedback is ridiculous.
The ONLY use would be TouchID, and *maybe* app dependent shortcuts, but let's be honest, power Mac users already have the muscle memory for all the keyboard shortcuts, and so moving the hands from the typing position to touch a button with no sensory feedback is ridiculous.
It doesn't bother me, most computers have glossy screens at this point.
does everyone think the MacBook Pro will get a design change? maybe a little thinner as well. Also will it be the only one that will get a big update/design change? i can't see the MacBook Air getting much and Apple updated the 12" MacBook earlier this year.
Not everyone who actually owns and uses a rMB and has an individual opinion is necessarily an Apple employee. If you're interested in a civilized discussion, let me know.
I know what you mean, losing Steve and also Scott and that old 'Russian' software lead guy, meant that we now have form over function and the form is bloody awful. iOS 10 and macOS Sierra still haven't addressed key issues and they keep introducing new problems i.e. the new control centre. Why the FRAK isn't it centre aligned and not left aligned? Why make two swipes to get to the home when a left swipe for music or a right swipe for home would have worked, with the standard controls in the default middle position. They are breaking their own UI Rules / standards...
Grrrrr
Not mine. I still love my NEC 27" wide gamut matte display attached to my '09 Mac Pro. I think I can live with small glossy screens on laptops but not large monitors. I remember some years ago trying a new Apple Cinema glossy display - took it back within an hour of trying it.
I agree the SSDs are overpriced (Apple tax), but you're comparing a PCI-e SSD with 2GB/s read/write speeds, higher IOPS and larger throughput, to a SATA SSD that physically can't go beyond 660MB/s.
Why don't you compare the pricing to other PCI/PCI-e SSDs?
To each his own, I'm not bothered by it, love the 5k display and wide P3 color gamut.
I know the world has moved forward but it has been so damn long since Apple updated those products. Where are my new Pippin and Message Pad?
(You should read my entire first post to understand that I was joking Neodym
)All those applications are written for x86 & x86-64. It will take years to port them to a new arch.
I don't think you've given this any real thought. The transition form powerpc to x86 was easy and fast because x86 was already in use and most of the apps were also available on x86 based pcs. But there isn't any "secret apple cpu" based computer available at large for people to develop on.