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I'll point out a new feature with iOS I recently discovered. It is now possible to share audio to other apple headphones (with their customer BT chip) https://s

I'll point out a new feature with iOS I recently discovered. It is now possible to share audio to other apple headphones (with their customer BT chip) https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-audio-with-airpods-and-beats-headphones-iph8ad1f667b/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-audio-with-airp... Very smooth UX and useful when watching a movie on a plane on an iPad.

PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
Thanks for that info. Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.
- apazzolini 7y ago
  Of all the possible audio quality brands to use in comparison, you chose Bose. Thanks for that laugh.
  - Cougher 7y ago
    It's a common enough product, so isn't it relevant?
    - bigiain 7y ago
      Sure. Arguably though, as a brand it's at least as deserving of your "mediocre at best" description as Apple's stuff...
      - Cougher 7y ago
        I could take the same slippery slope of audio purism and criticize most of the audio choices that people are making here. But that would be douchy.
- lozaning 7y ago
  Bose has their own version of this and has for some time, as long as both people are using Bose headphones: https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/using-music-share.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/using-music-share...
  - swinglock 7y ago
    Which requires both users carry a recent Bose product instead, of course.
- OGWhales 7y ago
  I really don't understand why we can't just have the headphone jack back. Did it even take up any significant amount of space?
  - swinglock 7y ago
    Sure, it takes up some space. But so does having to carry dongles. If Apple made an iPhone with the jack back again and a couple percent smaller battery, I'd take the jack. The phones has already been getting thicker every year ever since 6 (the 2nd last iPhone so far with a jack), so that's no argument.
    - OGWhales 7y ago
      Right? Not to mention the dongles break super easily and also I can't charge my phone and listen to music at the same time :/
  - ghostpepper 7y ago
    I imagine it helped deliver on another feature customers have been asking for for years, which is water proofing.
    - PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
      Not really. There are plenty of waterproof devices with headphone jacks. Here's an entire headphone amp embedded in liquid resin: https://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2012/04/audio-crystal-cmoy-freeform-headphone.html https://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2012/04/audio-crystal-cmo...
Wowfunhappy 7y ago
As with many things, it works great as long as everyone owns a recent product from the same company.

PunksATawnyFill 7y ago

Thanks for that info. Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.

apazzolini 7y ago
Of all the possible audio quality brands to use in comparison, you chose Bose. Thanks for that laugh.
- Cougher 7y ago
  It's a common enough product, so isn't it relevant?
  - bigiain 7y ago
    Sure. Arguably though, as a brand it's at least as deserving of your "mediocre at best" description as Apple's stuff...
    - Cougher 7y ago
      I could take the same slippery slope of audio purism and criticize most of the audio choices that people are making here. But that would be douchy.
lozaning 7y ago
Bose has their own version of this and has for some time, as long as both people are using Bose headphones: https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/using-music-share.html https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/using-music-share...
- swinglock 7y ago
  Which requires both users carry a recent Bose product instead, of course.
OGWhales 7y ago
I really don't understand why we can't just have the headphone jack back. Did it even take up any significant amount of space?
- swinglock 7y ago
  Sure, it takes up some space. But so does having to carry dongles. If Apple made an iPhone with the jack back again and a couple percent smaller battery, I'd take the jack. The phones has already been getting thicker every year ever since 6 (the 2nd last iPhone so far with a jack), so that's no argument.
  - OGWhales 7y ago
    Right? Not to mention the dongles break super easily and also I can't charge my phone and listen to music at the same time :/
- ghostpepper 7y ago
  I imagine it helped deliver on another feature customers have been asking for for years, which is water proofing.
  - PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
    Not really. There are plenty of waterproof devices with headphone jacks. Here's an entire headphone amp embedded in liquid resin: https://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2012/04/audio-crystal-cmoy-freeform-headphone.html https://runawaybrainz.blogspot.com/2012/04/audio-crystal-cmo...

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

As with many things, it works great as long as everyone owns a recent product from the same company.