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Redesigned AirPods Max Smart Case Potentially Revealed in Apple Patent
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It's expensive, and proprietary...but Apple does sell a Lightning-to-3.5mm cable that allows you to use your Airpod Max's in wired mode.
Absolutely love my AirPods Max - but I will not be caught dead lugging that case around.
It's truly one of those decisions that makes you wonder what Apple was thinking, and how that thing got past so many brilliant minds who work at Apple.
It's truly one of those decisions that makes you wonder what Apple was thinking, and how that thing got past so many brilliant minds who work at Apple.
I own this cable, but it doesn't work when the AirPods run out of battery because it's a digital port
Well, they're made of extremely durable materials, the reason I dislike the case is because it provides essentially no-more protection than the AirPods offer themselves.
Feels like an alternate reality
Or is it simply one without Jony Ive.
Plus, you look really cool carrying them around in that cool case all over the globe.
You can't have it both ways. You said they clang together when taking them out of the case but also that they are made of extremely durable materials. Why care if they slightly hit each other if they material is so durable.
Also, yes they do provide protection. Its literally an additional layer of protection over the headphones. Saying they offer nothing isn't reality based.
You really think people are carrying them around in the case? I wouldn't say people are doing that any more than carrying other headphone cases around with them. No one does, they throw them in a bag. Again, just complaining to complain.
Well yeah, there is always a next version of every product in development, unless you're going out of business.
...And you never dump all your best design ideas in your first iteration, you organize them, combine and group them in logical ways, and spread them out over multiple generations of the product, from minimal to complex to (if you're lucky) bifurcating lines of maturation in a planned lifecycle. There's no way Apple doesn't have a coordinated design strategies for all their products at least a few generations out. ...I mean unless they're just so different-thinky that they just, somehow, wing it a single generation out... which I guess in their case, with unlimited resources, could be possible... Hm. Given some of their choices, I wonder.
It doesnt matter what Apple does, they'll always be apologists to defend them.
easy huh?
I can do without that.
It’s kind of annoying on my Sony XM4’s to switch them on and off. Occasionally I’ll forget to switch them off and the battery will be part drained from leaving them on all day.
It's an objectively bad design. I have them, and the flap on mine has degraded so that it doesn't always close completely, or often is dislodged loose in my backpack. The result is that I can never really rely on them being charged - I need to remember to charge them in advance after I go a few days without using them. I didn't need to do that with my Sony's or Sennheiser Momentums. The fact that the poorly designed case is REQUIRED to turn off the APM's is simply stupid.
Exactly! As much as people filled their diapers about the original case, I never really understood why, since it protected the more cosmetically fragile parts of the headphones without adding extra size/volume. I've literally never used the cases I've received with headphones because they've been too big for my laptop bag. My NDH20s just came with a little cloth bag, which was too annoying to manage so I stopped using it, and they got a scuff on one side pretty shortly after that (only a minor irritation, since the build quality on those is insane, but still). So I actually thought the original design was pretty clever for real-world usage.
Unfortunately you have to if you want to turn them off. Otherwise they will be dead if you let them sit a few days in your backpack without the case.
