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“My knockoff AirPods don’t work well.”
by gilrain 5y ago
“My knockoff AirPods don’t work well.”
- steveBK123 5y agoGimme a break. Big Apple fan here, but AirPods work really great for the first 12-18 months and then.. Especially Gen1
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI expect devices which go through constant charging/discharging to start noticeably degrading after 500 cycles, and to be very degraded by 1,000 cycles. Have consumer goods progressed beyond this yet?
- champagnois 5y agoNo, they have not. Companies probably see no reason to innovate here either -- it is one of two major reasons for their customers to buy new devices. (1) Battery is nearly useless. (2) The vendor decided to artificially slow the device with forced updates, or worse, the vendor decided to publish a list of CVEs and then declare your device ineligible for the necessary security updates going forward.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI assume it is because of physical limitations in current knowledge of battery technology.
- mmsc 5y agoAre you implying that AirPods are the original wireless earbuds, and every other wireless earbud is a "knockoff"?
- djrogers 5y agoNot OP, but a huge percentage of the no-name wireless earbuds I see are airpod knockoffs. Also, there were no successful true wireless earbuds before AirPods, just a couple of ones that launched a few months earlier to poor reviews.
- champagnois 5y agoNonsense. The earpiece craze started long before. I remember my mono-audio Samsung earpiece that went into one ear and worked perfectly from a decade before Airpods. The samsung charged with a simple USB cable, too.
- my123 5y agoApple had one too at the time, launched together with the iPhone. (iPhone Bluetooth Headset) Technological limitations caused that to be shelved until much later.
- djrogers 5y agoThat’s not the same thing at all, you’re stretching here.
- champagnois 5y agoWhat is the unique feature of an Airpod that was not present in the successful products that launched a decade before? Status symbol for the apple nuts? Most people I know use only one airpod at a time. That applies to my two teens in highschool and a multitude of professionals I work with. The same people a decade earlier would just be using the Samsung mono ear pieces or the multitude of other ones that existed.
- throwntoday 5y agoAirpod has 3 bluetooth chips, one in each ear and the case. All of these are synced, and the individual ear pieces are synced. Their form factor, battery life, ease of pairing, sound quality, build quality, comfort, and price point were what made them better than anything else on the market. Competitors may have caught up but Apple is still offering the best product.
- renewiltord 5y agoYeah, pretty much. The Internet was full of people telling us why fully wireless ear buds were impossible until overnight suddenly Apple made them possible for almost everyone.