Wireless? Meh. Whatever. I'll be impressed when Apple makes a set of ear buds that actually stay in your damned ears.
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Apple Likely Trying to File for 'AirPods' Trademark
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Well, with the introduction of the Apple Pencil and how that charges, I would bet on wireless EarPods charging the same way off an iPhone/iPad.
If Apple can't take their current earbuds and simply cut the cables off, I'll be THRILLED. I've been hoping for something like this for YEARS.
Speak for your own funny shaped earholes.
Fine for me. BUT I do prefer in Ears... If this trademark were for Ear Buds, then these would be AirBud ;o
I think they should be doing something along the lines of the chrome cast. Especially with the line out speakers of the new one. They need to get some more Airplay things going.
Why doesn't someone make a cheap $50-100 or lessAirplay enabled amplifier...
http://www.monitoraudio.co.uk/products/airstream/a100-amplifier
This one is amazing but Expensive.
Why doesn't someone make a cheap $50-100 or lessAirplay enabled amplifier...
http://www.monitoraudio.co.uk/products/airstream/a100-amplifier
This one is amazing but Expensive.
Apple is actively seeking the future of audio outputs. We have seen hints of them experimenting with Lightning or USB-C for this purpose, as well as shaving a side of the 3.5mm jack and now these AirPods.
It just works, will be the mission. Which of these will best meet that phrase? I could even see Apple releasing a shaved 3.5 but admitting it's 'old technology; we experimented with other plugs, but the future is Air. It was always Air.' And then they show magnets attract the AirPods to the wireless charger. It's that simple. It just works.
But that's wild speculation, and that's not here today, and that's probably why we keep seeing clouds to squint at. Because they keep working at getting the latency, fidelity, battery etc into a clean fashion.
It just works, will be the mission. Which of these will best meet that phrase? I could even see Apple releasing a shaved 3.5 but admitting it's 'old technology; we experimented with other plugs, but the future is Air. It was always Air.' And then they show magnets attract the AirPods to the wireless charger. It's that simple. It just works.
But that's wild speculation, and that's not here today, and that's probably why we keep seeing clouds to squint at. Because they keep working at getting the latency, fidelity, battery etc into a clean fashion.
I am waiting on 2 kickstarters - the dash http://www.bragi.com and http://www.earin.com - both shipping soon - but different aims and abilities - should be good.
About time! It's time they up their game with the EarPods. The latest version still don't fit my ears! .
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Trademark also applied for in Australia as well from the same US company in Delaware. The same company for TvOS
Speaking of water proofing the iPhone 7: if they get rid of the 3.5" audio port do they also get rid of the Lightening port? And include a built-in universal Sim card?
Wildly speculative but could they do this?
Wildly speculative but could they do this?
The Retina Mac Book should have been headphone jack free, but clearly Apple was not ready to bite that bullet. I still look for the free headphones that come with the phones to be wired, but Apple to change to a lightning connector instead. I'd really like to see a Lightning connector on the rMB as well to at least add an additional port that does something else besides provide audio, and I think the recent TV remote and Pencil support the idea that Apple might be seeking to expand the versatility of Lightning, especially after establishing guidelines in December for Lightning connected audio devices.
This seems more like the In-Ear Headphones, as an additional purchase option. I don't see Apple giving bluetooth headphones away for free, and not all customers even want to use wireless headphones. But I can see them giving away Lightning earbuds, which prevent them from being used on competitors products. The white earbuds are at least as identifiable with Apple as the logo itself.
As for latency, I just have never experienced it with my bluetooth headphones watching movies. I don't know about playing video games, but my guess is the majority of Apple users will be using their headphones for music and videos.
No. Just No. 3.5mm jacks are the standard across literally every headphone range both entry level and premium and asking the user to buy either new wireless headphones to accommodate the lack of IO or another adaptor for something as basic as inserting headphones would be outrageous.
I have no issues with Lightning growing as an IO medium within Apple's devices, but headphones aren't a specifically Apple product, unlike the Pencil etc. - expecting every headphone manufacturer to drop 3.5mm jacks or offer an alternative product option just to comply with Apple's new standard is unrealistic. Moving to a completely bluetooth driven headphone market is more likely than a Lightning based one since Bluetooth is cross platform and realistic in the long run.
Realistically it doesn't even take up a significant amount of the product's internals in comparison to larger ports like Ethernet/Firewire/USB 3/ SD reader etc. It's inclusion is fine.
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Apple' fake company names are often clues to what the products are, so I'm going to say that Airpods aren't wireless headsets, but somethingelse. "Entertaiment In Flight" sounds a lot like "In-Flight Entertainment" and I believe there was somehtign in one of those filings about content delivery, no? I'm thinking that Airpods are either devices installed in airplanes to entertain passengers, or some sort of system (ala carplay) to allow passengers to interface their own iphones with an in-flight entertainment system.
Until Apple elements it from all of their mobile products. Then they will have to include both it and a Lightning port when there's only room for one.
There's a reason Apple is looking to reduce the size of the mini-phone connector. Since the rMB doesn't have any of those other ports, I think it's a safe bet Apple is looking to drop support for those ports across as much of their product line as possible. There will always be a pro device that has some of those ports, but USB-C (Thunderbolt and Lightning) all offer far more versatility to add any port a person needs -- especially when one considers it's not only thinner, but offers higher quality audio than the common headphone jack. In Apple's never ending quest for thinness, the rMB is not likely to be immune, and the headphone jack is the biggest port on it.
The most powerful company in the world and has the most money. - Apple
Everyone else - well, just everyone else.
I'm not saying that your wrong, but Apple wouldn't be Apple of today if it listens and tries to please everyone else. Everyone else usually has no idea what they're talking about.
But then it's literally form over function - sacrificing access to a universal standard for the sake of thinness isn't acceptable and I think even Apple would draw the line at removing the headphone to achieve a slimmer form factor. Everyone uses headphones with their devices, to give immediate access to these peripherals exclusively with Pro devices would only irritate the market - the headphone jack is a standard and so well established than even Apple wouldn't be able to shift the market away from.
Ergonomically if a device that's too thin to even facilitate a 3.5mm headphone jack going to be comfortable or strong enough structurally? Even the 6.1mm iPad Air 2 is outrageously thin and easily fits in a headphone jack. I can see wireless headphones becoming a reality on a larger scale within the next 10 years rather than the role being simply transferred to another port.
Bluetooth too doesn't directly play in your ears. bluetooth is way of wifi communication and so Airplay, just that Airplay should be lot lot better. Bluetooth encodes and decades every song to a low bitrate before it reaches your ear drums. Airplay is custom designed by Apple, it should handle lossless with no issue. Connect dots....
Apple working on high quality high bitrate songs, reported a few years ago.
Apple came out with Airplay, its own communications method.
Apple bought Beats Audio.
Apple setup its own streaming.
I believe Airplay will play more important role in this.