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Absolutely, granted. It's not a tradeoff that everyone wants to make. (I make the tradeoff and am never going back. I've worn nothing but BT headphones of mult
by metheus 10y ago
Absolutely, granted. It's not a tradeoff that everyone wants to make.
(I make the tradeoff and am never going back. I've worn nothing but BT headphones of multiple types for the past year and I've never had an "oops, no charge" issue. The Turtle Beach cans have a magnetic dock I just drop them on, and it's easy for me to plug my BlueBuds into the cable on my desk when I get home from a run.)
I'm not railing against her claim that there are downsides. But... well, consider an analogy. When the iPhone and subsequent smartphones came out, they offered drastically lower battery life than their predecessors. They needed charging every day. People rightly pointed out the inconvenience that represented when compared to the minimal logistical demands a feature phone placed on people. But I would have the same criticisms to level at someone who wrote an article about how "smartphones are annoying."
Taken together with the logical bankruptcy of her other claims (e.g. an in-line 3-button controller isn't as good as using the phone itself is somehow a bluetooth-specific issue??), I'm including this particular point about charging bluetooth headphones as just another poor argument. It's the only one on her list that holds any water whatsoever, but I still disagree with her characterization.