Tomorrow all the haters will see how "Apple does it right". Both with the airpods and the dual cameras. Also, if you haters and doubters want to do me a favor, please pre-order everything a day after its available so I can get my goodies first. 
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Apple's 'AirPods' to Use Custom Bluetooth Chip, Target Higher End Than Beats Brand
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Apple "Custom Bluetooth Chip" = add $599
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Apple "Custom Bluetooth Chip" = add $599
Have you read your own signature line lately?? :
["It's ready, when it's ready !
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Benjamin Franklin"]
Well, if this were another thread here, I'd spew out a 2,000 word response parsing your use of the words "think", "you", and "replaced" and then attack you for daring to question Apple's design of an unseen, unreleased product.
Seriously, though, a two year replacement cycle would both match the typical mobile device battery lifespan and, perhaps most important, serve the replacement cycle strategy of Apple and the cell phone carriers.
Mahalo.
All this talk about new BT earbuds hitting the market... How long will it take before a lithium battery explodes in someone's ear? At least with regular BT headphones the battery isn't tightly nestled within the folds of your ear, lol.
3 essential features?...
A Phone, an Ipod, A breakthrough internet device... A Phone, an iPod.... Are you getting it yet?
Which you pay if you can't take care of your own stuff.
More trash to charge. And now a proprietary Bluetooth chip - This keeps getting more idiotic as we go.
Porbably some sort of "Y" split cable. Alternatively they make power cubes that have 2 USB slots on them.
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I think the point remains... Deviating from universal standards is not against the greater good when it improves user experience. Sure, it's inconvenient to buy and learn new things, but that's how technology of any useful kind progresses.
FWIW, personally, I love the lightning connector.
Are you kidding me? So you want separate headphones for your laptop? Or when you're on an airplane? Or maybe you like carrying adapters around with you everywhere? It's funny how people make excuses to cover for Apple. There is absolutely nothing gained by removing the headphone jack.
Who cares what they cost. I want Apple to show me the best wireless headphones ever made for iPhone, and I can't freaking wait to use them.
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Not a single thing idiotic about it. The very fact that you'd say something so pointless earned you an exclusive spot on the ignore list. Congrats!
It's called competition.
First, you have no reason to think this isn't going to be a standards compliant chip, but even if it weren't that shouldn't surprise you.
Maybe you're new to the Apple ecosystem, but this is what you've bought into: Apple does what they need to in order to make their products work well together. If they think interoperability is important, they open up the standard, if they see a competitive advantage to keeping it proprietary, they do.
If I had to guess, I'd say this one will either be standards compliant but optimized for audio, or new and they'll make it available to accessory makers.
The Invisible Hand.
"[Smith's] notion that individuals' efforts to pursue their own interest may frequently benefit society more than if their actions were directly intending to benefit society."
That's a good idea. The only issue I see is playing DRMed content, like Apple Music or Spotify. Either the phone would have to decrypt and send the audio without any protection to the headphones, or somehow the headphones would have to be able to be authenticated and have the key.
How that could possibly affect your experience, aside from maybe providing you with more battery life, is completely beyond me. But whatever.
LOL...if you are planning to buy Apple Car then you are right ;-)This Buds is NOT for you.
If Apple makes custom Bluetooth chips they should at least be compatible with existing Bluetooth devices. Otherwise it can't fly! No one changes Car for damn phone!!
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Is about the only appropriate response to that comment.
I'm very interested to see how Apple explains the elimination of the headphone jack; I really don't believe BT, in any capacity, is a compelling alternative. It will also be interesting to see how this news is received by the tech blogs... time will tell, I suppose.
In fact, we don't really even know there is a custom BT chip.
No doubt at the expense of good sound quality from connected headphones or in-ears.
People are misunderstanding the custom bluetooth chip. It's not for phone-to-airpod. It's for airpod-to-airpod. I believe this is how other similar products work. They rely on bluetooth for the phone connection, but then another wireless technology to connect each earbud.
Bluetooth 5 will be standardized in the next month or two. It quadruples range, doubles speed, and increases data broadcasting capacity by 800%.
Sounds like just the thing Apple would look to include in their ear buds. Apple was the very first to ship products with Bluetooth 4.0 (the iPhone 4S was the first phone available with Bluetooth 4.0, the MacBook Air and Mac mini right before it were the first 2 computers to make use of the standard).
Sounds like just the thing Apple would look to include in their ear buds. Apple was the very first to ship products with Bluetooth 4.0 (the iPhone 4S was the first phone available with Bluetooth 4.0, the MacBook Air and Mac mini right before it were the first 2 computers to make use of the standard).