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I truly do not get the hype around this.

by jsatk 10y ago

squeaky-clean 10y ago
Is there hype around this? Not a single person I know is excited about this.
- JadeNB 10y ago
  > Is there hype around this? Not a single person I know is excited about this. That's probably jsatk's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976) point: Apple seems to be trying very hard to generate hype, but there isn't any.
- dazmax 10y ago
  http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/09/30/survey-suggests-strong-demand-for-apples-airpods-and-some-math/ http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/09/30/survey-suggests-strong...
nomel 10y ago
Oh come on, have some fun. We're slowly moving into that future tech world that we saw in movies and dreamt up when we were kids. These are wireless earbuds. My first pair of wireless headphones used IR, took two AA batteries, were huge, heavy, and sounded horrible once you started losing sight of the transmitter! Sure, it's a small step in mass-market technology, but that's the only way tech moves forward for most of the world. It's never really existed before, it's something new! Some of us find advancements in tech exciting, whether it's some incremental advancement in AI, or an incremental advancement for silly earbuds. If you think in terms of small increments, you'll never see, or be impressed with, the big changes that are happening around you.
- wmeredith 10y ago
  You will find no fun at Hackernews. Only contrarians.
- i386 10y ago
  Thank you. Not sure why people are acting so jaded when we're getting all of this cool stuff that was scifi even less than a decade before. The future is cool.
- ApolloFortyNine 10y ago
  Well Jaybirds have been out for years, and are pretty much the same thing with a wire around the neck, but also rather popular. And actually the Dash was a kickstarter from two years ago which is the same as the Airpods, where each pod is separate with no wire at all. Started shipping a year ago. People who know Apple are getting sick of them jumping on bandwagons' years late and claiming to be first.

I truly do not get the hype around this.

by jsatk 10y ago

I truly do not get the hype around this.

squeaky-clean 10y ago

Is there hype around this? Not a single person I know is excited about this.

JadeNB 10y ago
> Is there hype around this? Not a single person I know is excited about this. That's probably jsatk's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976) point: Apple seems to be trying very hard to generate hype, but there isn't any.
dazmax 10y ago
http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/09/30/survey-suggests-strong-demand-for-apples-airpods-and-some-math/ http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/09/30/survey-suggests-strong...

nomel 10y ago

Oh come on, have some fun. We're slowly moving into that future tech world that we saw in movies and dreamt up when we were kids. These are wireless earbuds. My first pair of wireless headphones used IR, took two AA batteries, were huge, heavy, and sounded horrible once you started losing sight of the transmitter! Sure, it's a small step in mass-market technology, but that's the only way tech moves forward for most of the world. It's never really existed before, it's something new! Some of us find advancements in tech exciting, whether it's some incremental advancement in AI, or an incremental advancement for silly earbuds. If you think in terms of small increments, you'll never see, or be impressed with, the big changes that are happening around you.

wmeredith 10y ago
You will find no fun at Hackernews. Only contrarians.
i386 10y ago
Thank you. Not sure why people are acting so jaded when we're getting all of this cool stuff that was scifi even less than a decade before. The future is cool.
ApolloFortyNine 10y ago
Well Jaybirds have been out for years, and are pretty much the same thing with a wire around the neck, but also rather popular. And actually the Dash was a kickstarter from two years ago which is the same as the Airpods, where each pod is separate with no wire at all. Started shipping a year ago. People who know Apple are getting sick of them jumping on bandwagons' years late and claiming to be first.