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Samsung Leaks Upcoming AirPods Competitor 'Galaxy Buds'
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Yes except they had a smart watch and wireless ear buds before the Apple Watch or AirPods.
What, and wires dangling out of your ears looks less weird, does it?
AirPods look exactly the same as the wired earphones, but with the wires removed – wired versions only appear to look less weird because you're more used to them...
Desperate? How so?
You are right they had a watch and apple has the watch.
I would actually prefer these over Airpod. In-ear and has silicone tips so it blocks noise and stay put in my ear canal. Not sure if anyone agrees or disagrees
I LOVE to see competing products, but I assume Apple will continue to have an edge over other Bluetooth accessory manufacturers with their proprietary W1 chip, which I believe is especially beneficial in earbud products that have limited battery capacity.
What, and wires dangling out of your ears looks less weird, does it?
AirPods look exactly the same as the wired earphones, but with the wires removed – wired versions only appear to look less weird because you're more used to them...
Wires had to be there. AirPods are a crude first step from wired to wireless. They are the equivalent of when mobile phones had antennas like this:
Apple has a watch only if you own one of their horrible overpriced and cripplingly locked down phones though. Samsungs watches work with the vast majority of phones. Choice is good.
They've had that kind of fitness tracker for a few years now. I had last year's model and returned it. It worked great but was bulky and uncomfortable.
"Choice is good" in and of itself is not an argument. Price is not objective, but highly subjective. For being locked down ... I and millions of others don't see it that way.
This will sell well in rural Ontario, where everyone addresses each other as "bud".
I was puzzled by the comment about operating systems as well.
It’s cause they have more flexibility with functionality and portability. People buy them, like them, tell their friends about it - word of mouth. I see much more AirPods around then any new tech.
According to this article, functions like the charging will likely be limited only to the S10. You can also buy a Series 3 for as low as $199 on sale. Not sure what your talking about. Crippling locked down? Huh? Ever use one of these things?
I’m interested in the watch, not buds. Apparently they sell the watch with a full on cell service that doesn’t require tethering. I think I could create everything I need in google calendar (some duplicated due to shared ios calendar) and if it has activity tracking, timer, weather, and working cell phone with google contacts I could drop the iphone and apple watch. I could still keep the ipad and mac mini and make it work.
I used to think the same, until I saw a small in ear product (like bragi headphones for instance look great in real life), and it makes the airpods look extremely dumb.
I'm sure apple will change the design to make it more of a compact design with a next major refresh (probably a few years down the line), but right now apple is playing it safe with their design due to there being potential compromises in battery life and connectivity if they were make it more compact.
In this sense other manufactures have leap frogged apple's design, however they're also plagued with connectivity issues sometimes, so they lose out regardless of the better design.
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