1. how do you know find my won’t drain battery like crazy
2. this is where airtags come in
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Third-Party AirPods Max Solutions Seek to Address Smart Case Criticisms
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2. this is where airtags come in
When somebody doesn’t like something Apple does they blame it on form over function assuming the reason it’s not the way they think it should be is because Apple employees were only concerned with aesthetics. In this case I find it amusing considering nearly everyone says the smart case is ugly.
Isn't that the main reason for buying headphones?🤔
If a manufacturer seeks an Apple logo, fine, but the case market is thriving without it.
As you can see in this thread, this is precisely my point.
Didn’t say you did. I was saying that MR members/consumers/humans (i.e. We) should think of the bare bones wrapper that accompanies AirPods Max as a cover, not a case.
If you never used the sleep magnets, the worst that can happen is you lose a few percent in a non-compatible case. Not the end of the world. Your phone/tablet/laptop does the heavy lifting work for "Find My". Your headphones just care whether or not it's connected to something. Any idle drain will just be from keeping the Bluetooth radio running, but BT is fairly power efficient in general.
Apple's new trend. Useabilty, out. Low cost, out. High functionality, out. Common sense, out. Ugly, in. Only Apple's billions in marketing can make this work.
Hey, Tim Cook is probably just thinking “Great, now we can charge $159.99 when we release our own.”
All some vendor needs to provide is a good demin case. I received those with headphones before and it was included! It could have been made from recycled denin also. (Black, Blue, Light Blue) yeah could have been made to match the headphone instead of that one color case.
It was a matter of time. Apple rarely fails on the design front but boy, when they do, they fail HARD.
Waterfield makes seriously nice cases/bags.
Even if it's a design fail, it doesn't seem to have hurt sales at all. Neither has the price, esp. if people are now rushing to buy a wildly sold-out $99 aftermarket case, on top of the $549 cans.
You speak as though everybody is going to use these headphones the way you would. I would imagine a lot of them are going to be used inside homes, and rarely/never leave those homes, and may never get put in their Apple-provided case.
The support doc says Find My stays active for 18 hours when in the case. Realistically, in 18 hours, you'll realize your headphones is missing.
It's possible Apple wants to target 1 charge per week for the avg user. Keeping it on constantly would miss that target.
BT is obviously low power, but the H1 chip itself could be using some power. This is especially true if it's doing the BT mesh for anonymous find my pings from other customers.
Exactly - but this is also where all this environmental BS falls to the ground. Apple knows and lives off exactly this accessory community, which creates tons of shipments, wrappings, docking stations and other extra gadgets, which could be avoided if the devices had a few more ports or came with the proper case to begin with.
But alas - that is how things work ... the typical Apple customer is one to whom personalization is important and this is good for accessory providers.
Stop wearing them in the sauna 🤷♂️
You think that instead of a “proper case” nobody would want a case with orange stripes, or polkadots, or fake gems, or real gems, or a handle on a different side, or two handles, or a belt hook, or a buckle instead of a zipper, or waterproof, or shockproof, or recharging, or, or, or...? There will be cases, regardless of what Apple makes, so they may as well go minimalist... to reduce environmental impact.
You may not realize this, btw, but case customization is not the exclusive domain of Apple product owners.
Their billions they can afford to pay in marketing are available due to the large amount of money they make off of folks that buy their products. So, it would appear that there are a large number of folks that prefer products that are:
Hard to Use
Expensive
Not functional
Un-common sense?
and Ugly
These don’t ever need to have a large marketshare, just enough marketshare of folks with money to make it profitable.
Very well said.
And actually, that hanger looks like a great idea. I’m actually digging it. Will be looking out for similar things more so than a case.
To the same “who would...”, “who in their right mind...”, etc crowd. The smart case itself, Im on the “I have nothing against the case” bandwagon... sure it’s not “aesthetic” but it’s definitely high quality materials and looks like it would last forever. And yes, it does the job.
I personally like what I saw presented with the Waterfield case. I will be purchasing one before I order my AirPods Max. Just what I was interested in with the right features and design to complement a premium product.
First is being robbed by Apple for the AirPods Max, then third party manufacturer for the case, then a dude with a knife or gun.
I'd like this compared to the Bose QC35 case which for me is the golden standard of how this stuff should be done
Apple is robbing nobody. Apple can charge whatever amount they want. It's the consumer's choice to make the purchase. Good Lord! 🙄