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Bragi Unveils Wireless 'Headphone' Earbuds Ahead of Apple Event
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I have mixed feelings about these. Don't like the wires . But one feature that will be missing is being able to talk on the phone with your headphones and have the mic by your chest and being able to have your phone in your pocket. And you can control the volume.
I tried that for a while when gaming on the Xbox (wife didnt appreciated the gunfire late at night) - it didn't work well - jumping around with the controller led to the inevitable pulling the cable out of the amp and boom house full of gunfire.
I ave a BT transmitter plugged into the TV now - my Dash doesnt connect well with that so I use my other BT headphones (Jaybird Bluebuds X) - sound isn't as good but it works.
When I could connect my Dash directly to the Apple TV teh BT connection was much better than the to the transmitter.
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On the Dash you can control the volume directly on the ear bud.
It was a fine phone (used my 4s up until I bought my SE). But, it was too heavy. Especially in a lighter fabric pocket.
Actually, I think you're squishing together two different points in history. When the USB-only iMac came out, USB was more of a curiosity on the PC than anything - yes, it was a on industry standard, but few had implemented it. At 12Mbps, it was fine for keyboards and mice, but useless for substantial data transfer.
It was somewhat later on, after the new USB peripheral market had sprung up, and every PC started coming with USB ports standard, that USB2 went up against FireWire. PC fans would excitedly point out that FireWire was only 400Mbps, while USB2 was 480Mbps - it was entirely lost on them that FireWire was designed for high speed data transfers, and could do disk I/O all day long at 400Mbps with negligible impact on the CPU (because it was partly based on SCSI), while USB2, at the time, was basically a keyboard-and-mouse interface that had been sped up, and could be pressed into service for data transfer, but only with a substantial hit on overall system performance, and never hitting that magical 480Mbps. (Also, it doesn't have any particular impact on current events, but the FireWire FW400 connector was physically a much better connector than USB ever had, up until USB-C - the FireWire connector made a better physical connection and it was very clear which was the right way around, while with USB1 and 2 it has always been a crapshoot if you're trying to plug in a connector without looking at it. The FW800 connector is fine, but the FW400 connector was a beautiful design.)
Agreed that USB ended up winning out and evolving into a good and useful standard today. The connector could be better, but it's workable. And USB-C fixes pretty much all the problems.
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Two more days of waiting seems like an eternity. The hype and the excitement! At least for some who are ready for the next step.
You should have kept the faith - The Dash today are a different beast to The Dash in February/March.
I don't really want wireless headphones and ear-buds. Even if they sound as good as even cheap-wired ones (which most don't), it's another battery thing to worry about, and then there are the potential health concerns. I suppose there are a few uses (yes, wires do get in the way) but then there's the $119 price tag. (I sure hope Apple isn't moving in this direction...)
You should still be able to use wired headphones via the lightning port. Do you need to listen and charge phone at the same time often?
My entire point is, assuming they do remove the headphone jack (a moderately safe bet at this point, but cannot yet be considered a fact), we don't know what their reasoning is. All we have, at this point, is: a) rumors the jack is going away, and b) a whole bunch of wild speculation, mostly assigning motives to Apple ("they're doing it to save ten cents and make you buy new stuff because they're cold heartless meanies!") that tells us more about the motivations of the speaker than it doesn't about Apple. But... Wednesday morning, Apple will explain their case. What they did, and why, and their reasoning, and what other steps they may have taken to allievate the pain. What will all that be? I have no idea. Will it be a good explanation? I don't know. But I'd bet money that they have a solid explanation worked out, because they usually do. Doesn't mean I'll agree with it, but I'm dying to hear Apple's reasoning. A lot of other folks on here are too eager to get on with the tarring and feathering, to let any sort of explanation stand in the way.
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Agreed. MicroUSB is a terrible connector. I have to fumble around trying to find the right orientation every single time. USB-C is much better and a lot more flexible.
I'm pretty sure the accessory industry would be really happy about a move to USB-C. They could unify around one standard and achieve better economies of scale, not pay MfI fees, and sell some of their accessories to Apple users again.
The "uproar" doesn't seem to have hurt Apple one bit ... on the contrary.
I think Lightning is a dead end and there are good arguments to kill it off ASAP and switch to USB-C. Besides the obvious disadvantages for consumers like lock-in and more hassle if you use non-Apple devices, it also has more technical limitations than USB-C. For example, it is unable to transport uncompressed 1080p video, which is why video output using the Lightning/HDMI adapter needs to be compressed and can look pretty crappy.
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Quadratic on distance in free space, to the 4th power at distance in some models over ground. Never as e^x.
I stopped responding to people who start with the phrase, "nobody has been able to give me a good reason" ...
Because no reason will ever be good enough for them, if only because they aren't really interested. They're just typically looking for an excuse to climb up on their soap box and pontificate and usually beat a strawman.
Of course it was still being used. But you're right that getting rid of the floppy drive drove the development of superior technologies. So it's a great parallel. Ask anyone, eighteen years from now, and they'll tell you the same. The 3.5mm audio jack was on its last legs already in 2016, though not everyone could see that.
FWIW, I have a frequent use case for using headphones and charging at the same time. I often go on long walks at night. Listening to podcasts, audiobooks, or music, and playing Ingress (the walking around augmented reality game that is the predecessor to Pokémon Go). The game eats battery, so I often have my iPhone 6 plugged into an external battery and headphones at the same time. I've also had the situation where I'm going out for a walk, not gaming, but my battery is substantially drained after a long day, so I use the battery while I walk. And I'm not the only one doing things like this.
What health concerns? The only thing I can think of is ear infections from putting something in your ear, but you can get that from regular ear buds.
Why not? They use sex to sell everything else.
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I agree with your second paragraph, that does happen a lot, though, to be fair, I believe the OP was talking more of looking for an explanation than a justification. Different flavor of reason.
