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I'm not exactly pleased with the decision regarding the jack, but this misinformation has become a meme unto itself: > They took out the headphone jack, like t

I'm not exactly pleased with the decision regarding the jack, but this misinformation has become a meme unto itself: > They took out the headphone jack, like tech journalists rumored for years and years, and are now selling you a $9 dongle or forcing you to get Bluetooth earbuds, which are… bad, to anybody who cares about audio quality or battery life or actually use their phone to listen to music. No, they didn't. You get a set of lightning earbuds with the phone, and you get the dongle for free. If your objective is to buy an iPhone and listen to things with it, you do not need to buy shit other than the iPhone. And if your argument is quality and you know ANYTHING about it, then you already figured out that the dongle contains the same hardware that the phone did prior to turn the digital signal into analog audio, and that the headphones do more or less the same thing just packaged inside the buds instead of being in the phone. As if any real audiophile would use the stock Apple headphones anyway. I have a really hard time taking journalists seriously when they make a factual error in paragraph 1. Pressing on...

lorenzhs 10y ago
He also claims "and you have to wear two of them!", which is factually wrong as well. It was explicitly mentioned in the keynote that you can also use only one, e.g. if you just want to make a quick call.
- throwanem 10y ago
  > It was explicitly mentioned in the keynote that you can also use only one Oh, good! Thank you for mentioning this - I haven't found time to watch the full keynote and probably will not do so, and I did wonder how annoying it would be to use just one AirPod at a time, so's not to block both ears and severely hamper my situational awareness. It sounds from what you say like this is a use case they've put some thought into, and that's good to know.
danieldk 10y ago
If your objective is to buy an iPhone and listen to things with it, you do not need to buy shit other than the iPhone. Except if you want to listen to things while charging the phone (which happens when you are on the plane/train/...). Other than that: fair point!
- rb808 10y ago
  or you want to listen to things while charging the earbuds!
  - socmag 10y ago
    Oh come on, we can get two or three pairs so there are always some charging no matter what our situation.
  - FussyZeus 10y ago
    That's my other beef: 5 hours of battery life on the Airpods, are you kidding me? I was interested until they got to that dopey box you charge them in and told us they only ran for 5 hours of listening. That's pathetic.
    - tacostakohashi 10y ago
      Wireless just isn't worth it for these peripherals - earphones, headsets, keyboards, mice. Even if the battery life is a year, it will still go flat at some annoying time when you want to type/listen/make a call.
    - audunw 10y ago
      Honestly, 5 hours is quite impressive for such a small thing. And it certainly goes beyond my need for casual use. Would anyone listening to music more than 5 hours in a stretch really use the airpods anyway? Hopefully iPhone 7 will be forward compatible with Bluetooth 5, and will really spark the market for good quality Bluetooth 5 headphones with longer battery life. Although the box is dopey, it's probably quite important to keep people from loosing the airpods, and to make it easier and quicker to charge them. You know that the box also contains a battery right? There's 24 hours of capacity there.
      - Eridrus 10y ago
        I hadn't heard of Bluetooth 5 before, but this article says that it brings no changes to headphones, unless you're suggesting BLE will be good enough for headphones? http://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-5-gary-explains-703734/ http://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-5-gary-explains-70...

lorenzhs 10y ago

He also claims "and you have to wear two of them!", which is factually wrong as well. It was explicitly mentioned in the keynote that you can also use only one, e.g. if you just want to make a quick call.

throwanem 10y ago
> It was explicitly mentioned in the keynote that you can also use only one Oh, good! Thank you for mentioning this - I haven't found time to watch the full keynote and probably will not do so, and I did wonder how annoying it would be to use just one AirPod at a time, so's not to block both ears and severely hamper my situational awareness. It sounds from what you say like this is a use case they've put some thought into, and that's good to know.

danieldk 10y ago

If your objective is to buy an iPhone and listen to things with it, you do not need to buy shit other than the iPhone. Except if you want to listen to things while charging the phone (which happens when you are on the plane/train/...). Other than that: fair point!

rb808 10y ago
or you want to listen to things while charging the earbuds!
- socmag 10y ago
  Oh come on, we can get two or three pairs so there are always some charging no matter what our situation.
- FussyZeus 10y ago
  That's my other beef: 5 hours of battery life on the Airpods, are you kidding me? I was interested until they got to that dopey box you charge them in and told us they only ran for 5 hours of listening. That's pathetic.
  - tacostakohashi 10y ago
    Wireless just isn't worth it for these peripherals - earphones, headsets, keyboards, mice. Even if the battery life is a year, it will still go flat at some annoying time when you want to type/listen/make a call.
  - audunw 10y ago
    Honestly, 5 hours is quite impressive for such a small thing. And it certainly goes beyond my need for casual use. Would anyone listening to music more than 5 hours in a stretch really use the airpods anyway? Hopefully iPhone 7 will be forward compatible with Bluetooth 5, and will really spark the market for good quality Bluetooth 5 headphones with longer battery life. Although the box is dopey, it's probably quite important to keep people from loosing the airpods, and to make it easier and quicker to charge them. You know that the box also contains a battery right? There's 24 hours of capacity there.
    - Eridrus 10y ago
      I hadn't heard of Bluetooth 5 before, but this article says that it brings no changes to headphones, unless you're suggesting BLE will be good enough for headphones? http://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-5-gary-explains-703734/ http://www.androidauthority.com/bluetooth-5-gary-explains-70...