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Everyone keeps making this point but I don't get it? It's not like the AirPods are required. They are including Lightning EarPods and an adapter in the box for
by ebbv 10y ago
Everyone keeps making this point but I don't get it? It's not like the AirPods are required. They are including Lightning EarPods and an adapter in the box for $0.
- yoz-y 10y agoAlso there will be Beats headphones available for less and probably tons of other headphones from other makers that will follow suit.
- ghshephard 10y agoAren't they just bluetooth headphones? Given the airpods are backwards compatible, I just assumed they were vanilla bluetooth. Can't the hundreds (thousands?) of ones that already exist just pair with the iPhone?
- yoz-y 10y agoApple has made their own Wireless implementation on top of bluetooth using their W1 chip. They said they will be putting it into the airpods and three new Beats headsets. I wonder what is it actually doing though. It is not impossible that the bluetooth is used as a fallback mechanism for backwards compatibility.
- ghshephard 10y agoGruber makes it clear, http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/08/airpods-hands-on http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/09/08/airpods-hands-on, the only thing proprietary is the pairing between the iPhone and Airpods with the case. Other than that, these are just plain bluetooth headphones. They will work fine with other devices, and other devices will work fine with the iPhone 7. The W1 chips is just a bluetooth chip designed by Apple.
- andrewvijay 10y agoAbsolutely. But it feels good to pull Apple's leg in someway or the other.
- elmigranto 10y ago> for $0 It's not actually 0, you pay for everything, including a paper instructions are printed at. It just so happens everything's consolidated under a single position in the receipt reading "iPhone". And I would think 3.5mm EarPods are somewhat cheaper than lightning ones.