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Apple Reseller B&H Says BeatsX Earphones Delayed At Least 2-3 Months
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Me too. I just got them yesterday. They are amazing!
You know what? I didn't fully understand that I felt this way until I read your post. I've been really railing against Apple lately, and kind of enjoying the bad news as well in my own weird way. They've bragged about themselves for years. Their keynotes are so pompous sounding now. "Only Apple can do this, only Apple can do that, it's magical and courageous, blah blah…" It gets to be so annoying. I want them to taste failure because I hope it lights a fire under their backside to do better. I want them to be punished for neglecting the important things so that they fix them and make better products. The worst thing a company can do is fail slowly. If you fail quickly, you have time to react to what is happening before you lose your key employee talent, hurt your brand image beyond repair, and water down your entire product line which takes a lot more effort to replace. Failing slowly means people there become apathetic and deaf to your customer base. It's the worst thing that could happen. As you say, the more and faster the better.
I assume because they are smaller, like the AirPods, and they are running into the same manufacturing/quality control problem at large scale production
Yes you can. I have 2 iMacs (a late 2012 that dual boots OSX and Win10 and a late 2015 Retina) along with a Macbook Pro mid 2014, along with two iPod Shuffles, an iPod Touch, two Apple TVs, Two Time Capsules, and an Airport Extreme. So I think it's fair to say I'm fairly well into the eco-system. However, I made the decision after trying them to go with an Android smartphone when I got my first one. I based that off a choice of wanting to be able to set up the homescreen how *I* liked it, so it worked the way *I* wanted to to work, as opposed to the strictures put on my by iOS (I'd been using an iPod touch for a couple of years by that point, so it was a decision based on experience). Since then I've stayed Android as I've found it's by far better for me (YMMV).
It's very simple to load all your music up onto Google Music. I have it set up so as soon as I add anything into iTunes it's automatically added to my Google Music library too. It can also sync playlists. I split my listening between streaming from Google Music when I'm in the car but sometimes use the iPod Touch. Search out Google Play Music Manager.
Since I've just got my Pixel, I'm trialling the full subscription service from Google. I may drop it after the 3 months is up, but the jury is still out on that. What I *can* say is that it works well, and since my £16 SIM-only with 3 gives me unlimited data & no roaming charges in a host of countries, it's one of the better deals I've managed to set up!
THIS. I hear a lot about "but I'm too far into the Apple ecosystem"--but that's usually from people who have never tried stepping outside of it, even once. The truth is that no matter what you use (PC/iPhone, Mac/Android, etc), the software and hardware of any device you get has matured enough to the point that it will work well with each other.
So please tell me what the hell all the people around the world working for Apple do? Because it sure isn't developing hardware of any significance. They can't even find a few lost souls to keep the Airport up to date. Let alone make a pair of stupid headphones that work. THIS IS PATHETIC!
As Winston Churchill said “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."
2nd all o that.
What the 3rd gen fanboys don't get, is that the majority of "negativity" nowadays is delivered by 1st & 2nd gen fanboys. We used to defend Apple in the 80s, when PC was serious business and the Mac "just a toy". Then again in the 90s, when product sprawl and lack of vision nearly killed Apple. Then in the 2000s most of us loyal supporters were finally vindicated when we saw broader adoption of Apple products into Fortune 500s.
There was a lot of cheer and very little criticism at each new product launch or product update. I watched each keynote with great anticipation even after Steve was gone. After the last 2, I'm done. I just sat there smh.
It's like that feeling when your favourite team finally wins after years of being the underdog. Then they keep winning until one day, they decide to change coach, manager and players. The malaise set in. They're still playing in the big leagues, but you've stopped watching their games coz there's nothing left to cheer for.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Apple might be delaying the Beats even further because of the AirPods delay.
Neither of these posts have anything to do with what I said. I'm specifically referring to Apple products.
Context clues.
Wrong. It was specifically replying to your post and everything to do with what you said.
The Iphone 7 comes with headphones in the box, plus thousands of Bluetooth headsets available now in every price point that work well with it. Including beats which is (arguably) apple.
If rumor is true that they are converting to Bluetooth 5, they may be the best buds out there. Worth the extra wait to fine tune a better product. If you want rushed products, go Samsung!
Strange, I go to the apple store and find a slew of Bluetooth headphones that Apple has released. Have a nice day.
Tim is just failing, Apple Watch is a failure in its intension of becoming a highly desirable fashion item. Mac range is a joke for price over performance and now even Headphones have delays. Least the new campus is running on time
Maybe that has to do with the fact that someone other than Apple is leading the construction?
Now that you mention it I wonder if the Macbook Pro (which isn't very "Pro" BTW) was priced to pay off the new campus?
Apple sits on the board of the BT SIG and helped develop BT 5. I would be surprised to learn that they fabricated a custom chip that was not firmware upgradable to full BT 5 standards -- which will surely be backward compatible to the current 4.x standards.
For anyone who doubted the importance of a visionary at the head of Apple, 2016 has confirmed the fact that Job's was Apple and the new regime lacks true leadership.Courageous enough to remove a ubiquitous port like the 3.5MM jack, but not courageous enough to have flagship accessories ready to support the change at launch.
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They also have terrible audio quality--I prefer the Bose.
And if they are BT 5 capable, what device they connect to could benefit from it? #FakeNews
Are you referring to Apple bluetooth buds? No? Ok, that's what I thought.
Clearly you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
I am pretty sure based on the massive protesting on this and many other forums along with the many interrupted use cases, that the decision to drop the 3.5mm jack was rushed as well.