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And still no mute button on the airpod itself. Seriously, I would love to have a chat with the product manager in charge. With over 6.2M call-minutes per minut
by bironran 4y ago
And still no mute button on the airpod itself.
Seriously, I would love to have a chat with the product manager in charge. With over 6.2M call-minutes per minute and over 300M daily active users [1], how can "mute", the most important functionality in a video call (I would argue even more than disconnecting the call) still be missing?
Just a tiny dot that sets a mute/unmute flag on the mic, preferably with an audible cue. Don't even involve the phone, just mute it on the device itself. I know HSP/HFP don't support mute command but a device level option should be easy. Moreover Apple could, as it's done before, implement an Apple-to-Apple extension of either of these protocols.
[1] just for zoom, see https://backlinko.com/zoom-users https://backlinko.com/zoom-users
- nicbou 4y agoThis feature is completely useless to me. It might just not be such a universal need.
- chroma 4y agoIf airpods had mute buttons, tons of people would complain about accidentally muting themselves. People already have mute functionality in the paired device's OS and the app they're using. Adding mute functionality to a third place just increases confusion. And worse: if you build it how you're suggesting (purely in-headphone, without notifying the paired device), people won't have any indication that they're muted other than a one-time audio cue. They'll end up toggling mute/unmute in Zoom and/or their device's OS, then assume that the headphones are broken. It's a UX nightmare.
- dbbk 4y agoIf you "don't even involve the phone" how would you know what the state of your mic is? Whether it's on or off?