Saw someone putting cheap headphone cushions around, seemed to work great. There is a video somewhere on youtube about it.
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KGI: AirPods Shipments Will Double Next Year Given Strong Demand
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Remember this when they are re-designed and look better.
You will buy the new ones because they look better.
You will not wear the "old" ones because they look ridiculous.
Trust me. I come to you from the future.
I don’t watch a lot of video on my phone except for occasional sports highlight. Screen is too small to enjoy it for me. Reason I own an iPad mini.
I live in nyc and see them in the subway all the time not to a lot of my coworkers have started buying them after seeing me with mine
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I live in nyc and don’t have this problem
Totally agree. I decided to buy the moment i saw the presentation. Its one more thing that goes in my pocket whenever step outside.
[doublepost=1512413873][/doublepost]Though i think something wrong with the battery information it send to iPhone. Even after charging for 1hr the percentage still showed 7%. And after few days it showed 4%. rest of the thing functions as usual.
For some people like me, in ear headsets are a horrible design. Apple Earpods design is far more comfortable, even though they have tendency to slip out of my ears, for that reason I augment them with silicone covers with hooks.
Couldn't agree more on the ear canal headphones being uncomfortable and the limited acoustic performance of tiny diaphragms.
And considering they cost half as much as the average Apple Watch, and are in far greater demand, guess which segment of the "Other" pie chart is driving the increase?
I was over here hoping for a refresh or a sport version. 
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The equalization customization is unparalleled. Very imoressed wit these.
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The Run are phenomenal. My only gripe is that you can’t use just the left bud alone, like you can with Airpods.
The equalization customization is unparalleled. Very imoressed wit these.
Wireless pods that don’t require charging... you might be waiting awhile while they invent a miniature perpetual motion generator that fits inside the pods.
Maybe you have an idea about how to make something that is cordless, requires batteries and doesn’t require charging?
Maybe the pods could use the heat generated from inside the ear canal to charge?
Not much more you can give earbuds when u have already given it a convenient way to connect..
Apple just dived into this one here without leaving head room. Perhaps making them sound better than they already do, but apart from that how else can you improve them over the flip top and it connects. ?
Apple just dived into this one here without leaving head room. Perhaps making them sound better than they already do, but apart from that how else can you improve them over the flip top and it connects. ?
But they don’t have the W1 chip. The easy switching between Apple devices is the killer feature that I can’t imagine not having. Only having to use one kind of charging cable helps, too.
Wireless technology can exist with wired technology. They needn't be mutually exclusive, unless you purchase a iPhone later than the 6S. The 3.5 jack isn't gone except on current iPhones. Even Apple still puts it on Macs. Lack of the jack is an Ive feature. I have an LG V20 which can do both wired and wireless technologies - difference being that the 4 channel DAC only works with the NOTgone 3.5 mm jack. Your enjoyment of Airpods should not be to the exclusion of those of us with $300+ top of the line headphones. To each their own.
love my airpods. sure, the built quality could be better - the seam between the two halves of each airpod became pretty visible after the first half hour of usage - i‘m also able to feel it with my fingernail. plus the magnets in the case attract tiny metal particles in my pocket up to the point that they’re so stuck, you can‘t get rid of them anymore without scratching them off. i guess that‘s unavoidable but could be mitigated with darker colors.
some additional interface (e.g. triple tap) would be nice, especially for people who don‘t own an apple watch. sometimes i wish, siri would at least understand „volume up“ without an internet connection. the case could also have a bit more grip imho, it already slipped out of my pocket a few times. and, maybe future airpods could use both microphones at the same time for even better sound. oh, and water resistance would be nice. and better sound-quality than bluetooth of course, but that goes without saying.
still they are quite great. staying secure in my ear (but i wouldn‘t dare wear them while snowboarding), great battery life, nice charging case, switching between apple devices without disconnecting and repairing (although it could be faster) and just the freedom of not having a cable.
now they just have to not break or get lost for at least three years to justify the rather high price tag (unlike my powerbeats where the plastic of one earpiece broke after a year).
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faster switching, even smaller and lighter, better built quality, better sound quality, different colors, better mics, an additional interface (touch stripe volume or triple-tap), water-proof, better accelerometer to give your iphone/ar device more information about your head and body movements, pulse measuring, body temperature measuring,... imho there’s still some headroom left.
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yeah, but the homepod is a speaker for audio playback first and foremost, and they already did that in 2006 with the ipod hifi. it‘s probably not going to compete with the echo or google home, because those are not very good speakers, but interfaces to much more capable voice assistants than siri.
it‘s imagineable to put echo dots or home minis in every room of your home at $29 apiece, but only a few rich people will buy more than 1-2 $349 decices that maybe won‘t work with the remote-widget on your phone five years down the line. ( e.g. like the apple-tv 3g )
some additional interface (e.g. triple tap) would be nice, especially for people who don‘t own an apple watch. sometimes i wish, siri would at least understand „volume up“ without an internet connection. the case could also have a bit more grip imho, it already slipped out of my pocket a few times. and, maybe future airpods could use both microphones at the same time for even better sound. oh, and water resistance would be nice. and better sound-quality than bluetooth of course, but that goes without saying.
still they are quite great. staying secure in my ear (but i wouldn‘t dare wear them while snowboarding), great battery life, nice charging case, switching between apple devices without disconnecting and repairing (although it could be faster) and just the freedom of not having a cable.
now they just have to not break or get lost for at least three years to justify the rather high price tag (unlike my powerbeats where the plastic of one earpiece broke after a year).
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faster switching, even smaller and lighter, better built quality, better sound quality, different colors, better mics, an additional interface (touch stripe volume or triple-tap), water-proof, better accelerometer to give your iphone/ar device more information about your head and body movements, pulse measuring, body temperature measuring,... imho there’s still some headroom left.
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yeah, but the homepod is a speaker for audio playback first and foremost, and they already did that in 2006 with the ipod hifi. it‘s probably not going to compete with the echo or google home, because those are not very good speakers, but interfaces to much more capable voice assistants than siri.
it‘s imagineable to put echo dots or home minis in every room of your home at $29 apiece, but only a few rich people will buy more than 1-2 $349 decices that maybe won‘t work with the remote-widget on your phone five years down the line. ( e.g. like the apple-tv 3g )
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Costco had these for $20 off this week so I bought a pair. I actually like my Bose SoundSports wired earphones better for comfort, stability and sound. Obviously there are lots of wireless earphones out there. The Airpod charging case is a cool idea. Hate the white color.
You can buy the bat wing things like the Bose SoundSports come with but then you have to take them off each time to put the Airpods back in the case to charge them. Not realistic. The W1 chip seems flaky on my iphone 7 and ipad pro. At times the Airpods are not connected (when taken from case and put in ears) and I have to select them in the bluetooth settings like any other BT device. Sound has cut out a couple times on both devices this past week as well. On the ipad had to go back into bt and select Airpods again, etc.
Ultimately is the comfort that I'm not happy with, so will probably just go back to Bose.
You can buy the bat wing things like the Bose SoundSports come with but then you have to take them off each time to put the Airpods back in the case to charge them. Not realistic. The W1 chip seems flaky on my iphone 7 and ipad pro. At times the Airpods are not connected (when taken from case and put in ears) and I have to select them in the bluetooth settings like any other BT device. Sound has cut out a couple times on both devices this past week as well. On the ipad had to go back into bt and select Airpods again, etc.
Ultimately is the comfort that I'm not happy with, so will probably just go back to Bose.
Comfort is a big deal when listening to music. I really don't like earbuds, as they always seem to fall out of my ears. I want a great headphone with ventilation and fine sound. I can get that option with fine wired headphones. I used to be able to do that with iPhones. I can't do that any longer. I am pleased by my 6s plus. It runs iOS, talks with my iMac and iPad, and has a jack for my headphones. It is becoming out-of-date, and Apple gives me no alternative for sound other than switching to Android. They made a business decision, and hence, lost my business with phones. That is sad for both Apple and me. I prefer iOS to Android, but I love my music even more. Cheers, more beers.
I'm starting to think it must be a problem with my phone and not the airpods considering Apple has already replaced the airpods twice while trying to fix the problem.
I'm surprised that so many wireless earphones come with hard-backed yokes. RHA have an excellent two-earphone line up: MH650 and MH750, both of which sound great, and despite being yoked, are tethered by soft, coil-able cable, making it stay in place well and feeling light as well as not bothering shirt collars. They hiss a bit, which is a shame, but so do the AirPods.
Do tell, which areas? It's not funny how fast the competition has in fact caught up in many areas and very very not funny how iOS and macOS are buggier than ever....
What Apple does best: take an emerging product category with a frustrating user experience and deliver a polished product made possible by its control over both the hardware and software.
Other companies may be better in one area or another, but the end experience is rarely truly better as a result. Take the Airpods for example. It’s easy to point out how some other competing product beats it in one specific area or another, but again, it’s often cancelled out by some equally debilitating flaw in other areas. It’s not hard to see how the various design choices and compromises of the Airpods all come together to offer the user experience it does, and I think it says a lot that no other product even comes close to offering what it does.
That to me is the fundamental problem with this forum. The critics are choosing to fixate on individual bugs and perceived missteps in a vacuum, rather than choose to evaluate them holistically within the greater context of Apple’s achievements and accomplishments. No wonder the mood here is perennially salty and cantankerous.