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I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unrel
by lph 4y ago
I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unreliable and worse than useless for the work Zoom meetings I bought them for. Maybe I'm old-fashioned for expecting any piece of technology to last longer than a year.
- xirdstl 4y agoThis is my complaint as well. On multiple pairs, the microphone becomes unreliable after some number of months. If I'm lucky, it's within the warranty period.
- moe 4y agoThe mic is pretty bad anyway. And to add insult to injury, your listening audio quality also gets degraded whenever it's on... So it's a lose-lose for both sides every time you use it. My main complaint is that OSX has no setting to completely disable it. I have to manually switch to the Macbook internal mic basically before every call. I wish they would just sell a model without the crappy mic. I would even happily pay less for it.
- mort96 4y agoThe audio quality thing is a Bluetooth limitation AFAIK. There is no standard which lets you stream high quality audio bidirectionally, their high fidelity mode has only one audio stream going to the headphones.
- Angostura 4y agoIt sucks. But in the EU/UK you would have simply got them replaced.
- astrange 4y agoThere was an extended repair program for AirPods Pro, so they would've got them replaced anyway.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoBuy devices like that with a credit card that has warranty extension. Homeowners and renters insurances sometimes also include extended warranties. Applecare is another option, of course.