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I have three sets of AirPods. One got lost, and I accidentally online ordered two. Of the two that work, one constantly gets reported by callers as unintelligi

I have three sets of AirPods. One got lost, and I accidentally online ordered two. Of the two that work, one constantly gets reported by callers as unintelligible. The other one I never get comments about except from my mother. Everyone universally agrees that the sound quality of holding the iPhone X to my head is vastly superior. AirPods are convenient but not very good in my experience. Poor audio quality, almost no sound isolation (which could be viewed as a feature, frankly), short battery life (long conference call and you are doing the one-ear-cycle and pray thing), and a challenge to keep charged (yet another charger/cord needed or a rotation cycle with phone). I have and use mine (get value from my sunk cost) but do not like them. They also hurt my ears after about 15 minutes. My wired Etymotic mid-range earplugs for $70-ish have vastly better audio and mic quality, insane passive noise isolation and never need charging. Except... no 3.5mm jack and that stupid dongle keeps getting lost when moving between phone and laptop/ipad. Sigh. What a travesty. Sorry to rant, but it just is not a good product even if it is important to Apple.

brokenmachine 8y ago
Lol, that clusterfuck describes exactly what I thought they'd be like. And you bought three sets, thus encouraging Apple that everything's fine and to continue whatever it is they're doing!!
- SomeHacker44 8y ago
  It's not as if I had much of a choice here.* I could use other bluetooth headsets, but the Airpods, as poor as the audio and mic quality are, do mostly "just work" for me and are as small as my wired headphones were to carry around. * In the Apple ecosystem for a dime, in for a dollar. I am looking to get out, but that will be expensive and I do like Apple's privacy core, if not their recent hardware and UX direction.
  - brokenmachine 8y ago
    I get it, I'm on Android because I can't swallow Apple's bullshit but would like it if Android had similar security to Apple. It would be nice if we could have our cake and eat it too.

brokenmachine 8y ago

Lol, that clusterfuck describes exactly what I thought they'd be like. And you bought three sets, thus encouraging Apple that everything's fine and to continue whatever it is they're doing!!

SomeHacker44 8y ago
It's not as if I had much of a choice here.* I could use other bluetooth headsets, but the Airpods, as poor as the audio and mic quality are, do mostly "just work" for me and are as small as my wired headphones were to carry around. * In the Apple ecosystem for a dime, in for a dollar. I am looking to get out, but that will be expensive and I do like Apple's privacy core, if not their recent hardware and UX direction.
- brokenmachine 8y ago
  I get it, I'm on Android because I can't swallow Apple's bullshit but would like it if Android had similar security to Apple. It would be nice if we could have our cake and eat it too.