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I love my 3.5mm cables for this reason. No negotiating with vendors (except Apple but it's well known that they really suck) just plug and play.

by swiley 5y ago

asdff 5y ago
I can't wait to sit my grandchildren on my knee and tell them stories of the magic headphones that you never needed to charge and just worked instantly with practically any audio device ever made by mankind right up until the iPhone 7 was unleashed unto the world.
- swiley 5y ago
  Between their screw ups and Pine64's successes that hopefully won't happen.
- eurasiantiger 5y ago
  Remember to throw in stories about impedance matching and the differences of A/B and T/D class amplifiers, as well as soundstage, acoustic compression and active correction.
  - rnestler 5y ago
    At least some of these things are kind of unrelated to how the audio signal arrives at the amplifier and are still an issue when connecting speakers to a bluetooth enabled amplifier.
    - eurasiantiger 5y ago
      Absolutely, but the thought that a 3,5mm jack makes everything always compatible is nonsense. Sure, it will work with most consumer products in some way, but it is not a given that it is working as intended.
- SilverRed 5y ago
  They would probably see it like we computers that had memory which did not wipe when powered down. The inconvenience is minor and the benefits large. They will never deal with huge hell balls of cables/headphones. The charging is pretty painless and the airpods pretty much do just work instantly with any Apple device (they can detect which one you are using at the time).
  - addandsubtract 5y ago
    Oh, I love a computer voice screaming into my ear "BATTERY! LOW! " every minute when my headphones reach 30%. Yeah, hearing loss is only a small price to pay for not dealing with tangled cables.
    - _Algernon_ 5y ago
      And the button that starts a glorified voice "assistant" that I've haven't pressed intentionally once. Or the pain of switching between paired devices. At least no more cables getting ripped out of my ears by the door knob.
    - joshstrange 5y ago
      AirPods do not STT announce a low battery unless that's an accessibility setting. By default they just play a little tone to alert you that your battery is low. An argument can be made around the expensive of AirPods but not when it comes to usability, they are bar none. Watching my Android friends cycle though bluetooth headphones like changing outfits is always interesting to me. Every few months I hear about "check out these awesome headphones, they are so small and they have noise cancelling", yawn, I've been using the same AirPods Pro since they released and they've tried 3+ and still aren't happy. I didn't want to believe it and refused to buy AirPods when they first came out until I got them as a gift and reluctantly used them but after I lost them (or they were stolen, still not sure) it took less than 3 days before I had ordered more. They really are magic.
      - hundchenkatze 5y ago
        How is the battery holding up on the Pros? My 1st gen AirPods were dead (each bud only holds about 20 mins of charge) after a year. I then tried a pair of the SoundCore Air Liberty 2 (what a name...) with the same result after a year or so. I can't justify paying $200 every year, so I'm sticking with wired for now.

I love my 3.5mm cables for this reason. No negotiating with vendors (except Apple but it's well known that they really suck) just plug and play.

by swiley 5y ago

I love my 3.5mm cables for this reason. No negotiating with vendors (except Apple but it's well known that they really suck) just plug and play.

asdff 5y ago

I can't wait to sit my grandchildren on my knee and tell them stories of the magic headphones that you never needed to charge and just worked instantly with practically any audio device ever made by mankind right up until the iPhone 7 was unleashed unto the world.

swiley 5y ago
Between their screw ups and Pine64's successes that hopefully won't happen.
eurasiantiger 5y ago
Remember to throw in stories about impedance matching and the differences of A/B and T/D class amplifiers, as well as soundstage, acoustic compression and active correction.
- rnestler 5y ago
  At least some of these things are kind of unrelated to how the audio signal arrives at the amplifier and are still an issue when connecting speakers to a bluetooth enabled amplifier.
  - eurasiantiger 5y ago
    Absolutely, but the thought that a 3,5mm jack makes everything always compatible is nonsense. Sure, it will work with most consumer products in some way, but it is not a given that it is working as intended.
SilverRed 5y ago
They would probably see it like we computers that had memory which did not wipe when powered down. The inconvenience is minor and the benefits large. They will never deal with huge hell balls of cables/headphones. The charging is pretty painless and the airpods pretty much do just work instantly with any Apple device (they can detect which one you are using at the time).
- addandsubtract 5y ago
  Oh, I love a computer voice screaming into my ear "BATTERY! LOW! " every minute when my headphones reach 30%. Yeah, hearing loss is only a small price to pay for not dealing with tangled cables.
  - _Algernon_ 5y ago
    And the button that starts a glorified voice "assistant" that I've haven't pressed intentionally once. Or the pain of switching between paired devices. At least no more cables getting ripped out of my ears by the door knob.
  - joshstrange 5y ago
    AirPods do not STT announce a low battery unless that's an accessibility setting. By default they just play a little tone to alert you that your battery is low. An argument can be made around the expensive of AirPods but not when it comes to usability, they are bar none. Watching my Android friends cycle though bluetooth headphones like changing outfits is always interesting to me. Every few months I hear about "check out these awesome headphones, they are so small and they have noise cancelling", yawn, I've been using the same AirPods Pro since they released and they've tried 3+ and still aren't happy. I didn't want to believe it and refused to buy AirPods when they first came out until I got them as a gift and reluctantly used them but after I lost them (or they were stolen, still not sure) it took less than 3 days before I had ordered more. They really are magic.
    - hundchenkatze 5y ago
      How is the battery holding up on the Pros? My 1st gen AirPods were dead (each bud only holds about 20 mins of charge) after a year. I then tried a pair of the SoundCore Air Liberty 2 (what a name...) with the same result after a year or so. I can't justify paying $200 every year, so I'm sticking with wired for now.