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I looked at the objective sound quality data on them and well, it's less than positive, I'm used to Sennheiser HD650s at home, which score quite well on such me
by shittyadmin 8y ago
I looked at the objective sound quality data on them and well, it's less than positive, I'm used to Sennheiser HD650s at home, which score quite well on such metrics, so I'm quite doubtful I'd like them much.
My first and only experience with Apple products was not a good one and I don't intend to repeat it. Macbook - ran extremely hot, many of the supposedly amazing Apple UIs were trash (Alt+O to open a file? Why can't I maximize a window like a normal person? How about the need to use 3rd party tools to do Super+Left/Super+Right that works out of the box on Windows and KDE), battery is glued in with some of the strongest glue I've ever seen so when I had to replace it after 2 years it was not a fun experience. I did learn lipo cells can take far more abuse than I expected though. I wound up running Windows on it and eventually just deleting the OS X partition.
You've provided no reasons except "There's no comparison", "They are game-changing" - shit like that is why I don't buy much Apple stuff. It's hype that fails to deliver.
- dionidium 8y agoThe reason is that they've completely fixed Bluetooth. They just work. My Bluetooth mouse sometimes fails to connect. The Bluetooth in my old car was always flaky. The Bluetooth in my non-Apple headphones sometimes connects and sometimes refuses. I don't own a Bluetooth device that works like the Airpods do. The Airpods always just work. They've completely integrated it. You open the case and you see that they've connected with a nice image right on screen. You want to switch them from your phone to your iPad? You select them on the iPad and they just connect. Every single time. Without exception. No other Bluetooth device even enters into the conversation for me until they just work like the Airpods do. Nothing outweighs that for me. Sound quality doesn't. Shape or comfort in-ear doesn't outweigh it. The price of entry is that you have to make the Bluetooth just work. The reason Apple gets the kind of praise that you seem to despise is that they figure out how to make things just work. And for a certain type of customer, that outweighs literally any other concern. You can respond all day about this spec or that spec or this or that performance test or "objective sound quality data." But it has to just work.
- shittyadmin 8y agoYou know what else "just works"? Wired headphones. We're talking wired vs wireless not wireless vs non-apple wireless here, so this is a pretty silly angle to discuss.
- dionidium 8y agoThat's great for you! But it is a real phenomenon in the world that people have a lot of trouble with Bluetooth. And the Airpods don't have those problems. That's why they're "game-changing." Edit: the comment I’m responding to here has been edited to make my response appear like a non sequitur. I’m sorry I responded again below before noticing such a blatant act of bad faith.
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- shittyadmin 8y agoWired: no pairing issues, no battery issues, great audio quality for less money. How "game-changing" is that? Why buy AirPods again? Because Apple decided you don't get a 3.5mm jack anymore. Nothing else. They've scammed you into it and convinced you they did you a service.
- dionidium 8y agoI preferred wireless headphones when iPhones still had a headphone jack, so you might be right, in general, that I’m a pea-brained sucker, but this particular hypothesis is easily falsified.
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