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Removing useful features: Progress™!
by archagon 9y ago
Removing useful features: Progress™!
- WalterSear 9y agoIMHO, it's just a focus on a different, more profitable, and less discerning customer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII To this customer, getting tangled in your headphones is a bigger problem than shit sound and $400 headphones that die after a year's use.
- MBCook 9y agoAs an Apple fan... I'm fine with it. I just kept adapters on the ends of my two pairs of headphones and it wasn't an issue. Then I got AirPods (any good BT headphones would work) and care even less. I was a tiny bit worried, but it ended up being a non-issue for me.
- archagon 9y agoAs also a fan of Apple, the lack of a headphone jack bites me about once a week and reminds me that I'm using an artificially constrained device. I also have BT headphones and they are comically unsuited for use with gaming and music apps. At least with Apple, you can expect things like this because they're an (often annoyingly) opinionated company. No idea why all the Android companies followed suit, though. Wired headphones aren't going anywhere in the next few decades.
- dkonofalski 9y agoSame. I also really, really like the AirPods. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I forget they're in my ears and it feels like the music is just playing in my head. It's a really weird but exciting feeling for me.