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An engineering marvel necessary because of product design stupidity. One can neither use the same headphones for a Mac and iPhone, nor charge an iPhone from a
by blub 8y ago
An engineering marvel necessary because of product design stupidity.
One can neither use the same headphones for a Mac and iPhone, nor charge an iPhone from a Mac using the cables that come with the devices.
I barely use that crap adapter because it's inconvenient. Thank goodness Macs still support headphone jacks.
- eropple 8y ago> One can neither use the same headphones for a Mac and iPhone, nor charge an iPhone from a Mac using the cables that come with the devices. The latter is very much true, but my headphones (not Apple ones) pair to two Bluetooth hosts at a time. I use them regularly with my laptop and my iPhone. You have to pause the audio output from one to use the other, granted, but it's not a big deal.
- baby 8y agoI use the air pods now, so it works on every machine except my nintendo switch :(
- lazyjones 8y agoSurely you can buy a $10 BT transmitter that plugs into the 3.5mm jack?
- zdwolfe 8y agoI've tried that - a cheap BT transmitter has latency high enough that the sound is out of sync with the game.
- CodeWriter23 8y agoCan you tell me why I’m always seeing AirPod users with only one headphone in their ear?
- Kye 8y agoTo listen for hazards while outside. I don't know about inside.
- toasterlovin 8y agoPodcasts, audiobooks, or taking phone calls.
- kccqzy 8y agoSingle headphone usage is a feature. The AirPods can detect that only one is present in the ear and switch from stereo to mono output. Here are a couple use cases: * To listen to the environment as well. * To take phone calls. * To extend the battery life of continuous listening by listening to one, charging the other, and then switch.
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- acolytic 8y agoIn my case, I lost one of them.
- calaphos 8y agomaybe you could connect them with something, so you cant loose them. A cable would work for that :)
- Rebelgecko 8y agohalving the wear on the batteries?
- baby 8y agoI do it when I chain calls and I don't have batteries anymore. I can charge one while using the other, then swap. The battery is great if you're only listening, but as soon as you start using the microphone it goes down pretty fast (a bit more than one hour maybe?).
- 1123581321 8y ago
- crooked-v 8y agoI have a Genki and I like it a lot, though it's pricey: https://www.amazon.com/Genki-Standalone-Transmitter-Headphones-Sennheiser/dp/B07L2C83R2 https://www.amazon.com/Genki-Standalone-Transmitter-Headphon...
- savoytruffle 8y agoIt is pretty aggravating the Switch still doesn't support bluetooth audio, since it seems like it is a software limitation.
- stephenr 8y ago> nor charge an iPhone from a Mac using the cables that come with the devices. Portable Macs, sure. But USB-a charging ports are everywhere now - powerboards, wall outlets etc. If apple included a type-c to lightning cable you/someone would complain it doesn’t work with those.
- grimskin 8y agoWell, you see, this is about products from one brand being able to work as one ecosystem - what we had previously and what we've lost. Before I had to upgrade my work laptop, when I've got to the office I could just plug my headphones from phone to laptop and that's it - now I have to keep additional ones. Phone battery run low - I could've just plugged it into a laptop with one cable - now I have to use adapter/charger. Before all that, if you had to replace your phone/tablet/laptop - you just did that and everything was working as before. Now you have to buy adapters to connect one apple device to another. And don't get me started on travelling.