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Powerbeats Pro 2 Can't Play Music While Tracking Heart Rate on Gym Equipment
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Ooooops! They should have asked Samsung how their very first wireless airbuds "Gear IconX" from 2016 could do both at the same time😁
No longer having a product experience obsessed CEO
Of course, Tim has claimed he uses every Apple product, every single day
This is absolutely bonkers.
The core purpose of your product doesn't work and you still release it to the public?
So who's running the Beats department and why are they still employed at Apple?
The core purpose of your product doesn't work and you still release it to the public?
So who's running the Beats department and why are they still employed at Apple?
I was looking forward to replacing my PowerBeats 1 because of the finicky charging issue, but I agree. 2 offers limited advantages over 1. I thought maybe hardware limitation for whatever reason until the article said it worked on Android. 🙄 Whoever "designed" this on the iOS side should be fired. It really is as simple as that. This basic functionality is implied by the item itself.
This is such an obvious flaw.
Did Apple — with the *cough* thousands of hours *cough* of testing know about this and just shrug, ignore it and move on?
So weird.
Did Apple — with the *cough* thousands of hours *cough* of testing know about this and just shrug, ignore it and move on?
So weird.
My favorite part of this story is how the criticism of Apple is coming from very mainstream, totally non-Apple focused, YT channels that routinely use and test a very wide swath of products
Apple released a total dud and is rightly getting roasted for it
Apple released a total dud and is rightly getting roasted for it
well there has to be something to show as improvement on the new AirPods Pro
I mean, who would want to do that? Use gym equipment, measure your heart rate and listen to music at the same time? What are you people? Barbarians?
Honest question: Why would you hook up your headphones directly to the machine anyway? I would think you'd want the biological information from the gym equipment to be shared with the phone which also gets the information that the headphones have, with your phone being the central hub rather than the gym equipment.
Some machines are really fancy and have great onboard entertainment options (including TV/Movies, etc)
I've also been in hotel fitness centers with no cell connection (if one is into streaming) and super spendy WiFi I didn't want to pay for. This one didn't impact me as I keep a local music library on my phone, but I know I'm not the norm anymore on that.
I was just about to order these. Definitely not now. What a crazy oversight on a fitness focused product.
Well to be fair, Powerbeats Pro 2 cost the same $249 price as the current AirPods Pro 2. So your theory would require them increasing the price of AirPods Pro 3.
Which I suppose they can do. But then it would reach a point where you can buy an Apple Watch SE on sale and a decent moderately priced pair of earbuds for around the same price.
Yeah, but in that case, these Beats would work fine. They can interface directly with the gym equipment while using the heart rate sensors, they just can't play audio from your phone at the same time.
Apple has never cared about such comparisons when doing price raises
I expect a price bump on nearly every single new or updated product this year (and perhaps the next)
Come on people, what do you expect for $250? Do you really expect to use 2 basic features AT THE SAME TIME?
Do you think this is 2015, and we are in a Back To The Future movie? Oh wait, nevermind... It is 2025 now and Yes, it should work...
Do you think this is 2015, and we are in a Back To The Future movie? Oh wait, nevermind... It is 2025 now and Yes, it should work...
Love how mainstream reviews did not test or note this obvious problem. I mean, I would question the use of HR monitoring in earbuds at all, but this is actually useless.
I see the issue now that I'm watching the video, and I get the frustration
Doing HIIT workouts (like Sprint intervals), for instance, it's really nice to have HR displayed/tracked on gym equipment, but I'd want my own music off my phone for that (I have custom songs I've chopped up for that exact type of workout), and these can't do that
It's basically pick one device to connect the Beats to, for everything, it sounds like
I'm sure this will get downplayed by many, by understand the more hardcore exercise user frustrations.
It's an odd limitation in 2025 and with where BT tech is at this point
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Beats. Active noise cancelation, but you can't listen to music at the same time. 😂😂
If you have an Apple Watch, why would you need a heart rate monitor in your earphones?
What's so wrong about your heart rate displayed in public? You don't want others to see your fitness level?