Price is only part of it. All earphones are awesome, well in the given price range. I just find that there’s nothing special about the AirPods. Maybe I expect too much?
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Apple's Greg Joswiak on AirPods Growth: 'It Was Almost Like Wildfire'
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Price is only part of it. All earphones are awesome, well in the given price range. I just find that there’s nothing special about the AirPods. Maybe I expect too much?
I hear this sort of "logic" all the time.
Just because something isn't a "deal breaker" doesn't mean it doesn't suck. Nearly every product sold has tradeoffs. I upgraded from an older iPhone with a headphone jack to a newer iPhone without one. I knew about that tradeoff, and it sucked.
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"Included?" Not on the last two I bought.
You can still use a pair of wired headphones, yes. However, you cannot "still do things the old way."
Yep, this ^. I don't think it's pedantic because it's even worse than that. Having it in the center with the lightning connector sticking out is much more obnoxious and cumbersome.
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Plus the added weight of having to carry the adapter is murder on my spine. I hear a class action lawsuit coming just as soon as I can see a doctor.
The ability wasn't really stripped. You can still use the wired EarPods with your phone or your headphones with the adapter they used to provide, but not anymore for obvious reasons.
They are not all awesome nor are all made the same or equal. I expect them to pair, work and last a while and use them to listen to various media. That’s it; thus I have different pairs for different use cases. The AirPods excel at what I need and clearly satisfy many others also.
If you're going with "just works" as an argument, you need to look at what it's replacing. Headphones are plug it in and put it on your ear. That's just working. I don't care how nice your Airpods are - they don't achieve that level of simplicity. The only mild annoyance of wired headphones is that maybe the wire is sometimes tangled, but organizing better prevented that and nobody takes more than a minute to untangle them (and you could just use them tangled if you didn't care.)
The prices Apple charges for headphones are dumb. I'm disappointed in people for buying them.
This is the first time I've heard that the headphone dongle reduces sound quality.
Is the dongle an external DAC that turns digital signals into analog audio?
Or does the Lightning Port actually have analog L-R pins that carry audio?
In either case I can't imagine there's that much difference. But I'm not an audiophile.
Is the dongle an external DAC that turns digital signals into analog audio?
Or does the Lightning Port actually have analog L-R pins that carry audio?
In either case I can't imagine there's that much difference. But I'm not an audiophile.
I think the most ridiculous thing is that Apple still includes a wired pair of EarPods with every iPhone. But it uses a Lightning port so if you'd like to use them with your Mac you need to get yet another adapter.
Wanna use your old 3.5 headphones with your iPhone? Buy 3.5 in - Lightning out adapter
Wanna use your new wired EarPods with Lightning port with your Mac? Buy Lightning in - 3.5 out adapter
Wanna use your old 3.5 headphones with your iPhone? Buy 3.5 in - Lightning out adapter
Wanna use your new wired EarPods with Lightning port with your Mac? Buy Lightning in - 3.5 out adapter
Not surprised by this at all. I knew as soon as I had my first pair and they ran out for 6 months after that these were complete winners. I do cringe a little bit for a California based company exec to use the term "wildfire"
Why didn't he just say they spread across the globe like a pandemic?
Why didn't he just say they spread across the globe like a pandemic?
AAPL comments intended to divert attention away from Declining iPhone Unit Sales ?
Great, the future is wireless. Easy pairing, it is always ready and charged, it is pocketable and great. And I’m talking about the 1st gen.
For those who are asking for wires, if you think wireless means less quality, you should not use a phone for music if you are an audiophile anyway.
For those who are asking for wires, if you think wireless means less quality, you should not use a phone for music if you are an audiophile anyway.
These products prove that Apple is the single best company that’s ever existed in human history. No other company compares. I’ll buy every gen AirPods that ever come out, every new iPhone and iPad, every new watch, and a computer every 3 years. I’m sold for life! No other company will ever convince me to switch
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ANC is working just fine on mine, not sure what all the outcry was for. Actually, it was only a small outcry. No biggie
Right because you never have to spend time untangling the cord on regular headphones. Guess I should have read further. Okay can you leave your phone charging in a separate room and change the song with wired headphones? Have you ever had your phone be tugged by the wires and fall because of the wires while doing something?
Can you do the dishes and change music easily with wired phones? The bluetooth range on these things is phenomenal the best they have ever made. But seriously they have great range. No corded pair of phones without Siri support have this advantage.
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To be fair, it was well into the “no-headphone jack on iPhone” when I replaced my Motorola s9 with AirPods. I had the s9 for 10 years before they kicked the bucket. I have no illusions the AirPods will last that long, but oh they are so convenient.
Actually it's more like, any person with two fingers in their forehead can see these are overpriced mediocre sounding tampons, people thinking this garbage provides any kind of status must be god's closest souls.
Using that argument might as well just use the built in speaker...don’t have to plug anything in.
No, don't get a job, live off unemployment and buy AirPods, Apple watches and When August 1 rolls around. Start Crying saying the feds need to extend the unemployment. Do what is right, look for a job, sharpen up your resume. Buy business clothes save some money for a rainy day like right now. Read this fable https://fablesofaesop.com/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper.html
There are apparently a boat load of people who disagree with the sentiment about “overpriced mediocre sounding tampons”.
Try switching from the macbook to the ipad and vice versa.
the device you want to use the bluetooth headphones on should be the only device you need to touch to pair. standard bluetooth headphone require you to go to the other device to manually disconnect.
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until you realize you didn't properly wound up the wire before putting it away and you have to untangle it everytime you want to use it
I guess the person you are responding to think wired phones run indefinitely when they are plugged into the only port. I know you can get a splitter dongle. However right out of the box you will never be able to run your wired headphones indefinitely. You could also use a wireless charger. Now we are using wireless technology to make a wired set of earphones run indefinitely.