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why would wires make earbuds socially acceptable?
by as_bntd 3y ago
why would wires make earbuds socially acceptable?
- massysett 3y agoThis was a retort people used against AirPods. They look like funny Q-tips sticking out of the user's ears. But really they don't look much different from earbuds, which people wear all the time, so shouldn't AirPods be fine? The response was that the wires on the earbuds make them socially acceptable.
- as_bntd 3y agoI really struggle to see how the earbuds being wired changes their social acceptability in comparison to wireless ones. I don't understand the retort.
- brookst 3y agoIt never made any sense. But people who saw AirPods as doomed to fail insisted that they looked dorky and embarrassing because… they didn’t have wires. It doesn’t make sense in hindsight, like the “iPhone will fail because it doesn’t have a physical keyboard” doesn’t make sense. But that’s the pattern here. Vision may fail, but if so, it will not be just because it’s different than current paradigms.