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Heh, Apple Computer also made the iPhone. Everything since launch has been incremental change, not innovative. Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet.
by radley 3y ago
Heh, Apple Computer also made the iPhone. Everything since launch has been incremental change, not innovative.
Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet.
- crossroadsguy 3y agoUntil battery life starts deteriorating any that happens real soon and you can’t even know when it started and where it is currently unlike that of, say, an iPhone. Then it’s unusable — hurrah, buy a new pair. The Apple way! :)
- yurishimo 3y agoThis is not unique to Apple. All headphones with tiny batteries in the drivers take the piss after a few years aging. That said, my MacBooks have the best laptop batteries of any computer I’ve owned. My wife went through multiple laptops in the time I kept one in college. Turns out some electronics just suck!
- evilduck 3y agoI have a pair of Pixel Buds, how do I see their current battery capacity and cycle counts?
- oarsinsync 3y agoAre there any wireless earbuds (same / similar form factor as the AirPods) that this doesn’t also ring true for?
- lenkite 3y ago> Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet. Sweet devices that keep falling off your ears. You need AirPod ear hooks to keep them on.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoIt sounds like you do, most people don't.
- lenkite 3y agoThe people who do are a significant minority just around ~30-40%. Wouldn't be a tremendous market for ear hooks otherwise. There are thousands sold every day on some retail sites and sometimes thousands every hour if discounted. Out of the 2 dozen folks I know who have bought airpods, 8 have also bought ear hooks. That's ~33%. Anecdotal, but you can look at sell figures and the vast variety of airpod earhooks products if you don't believe me - and look at the 10k-100k product ratings.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoI am surprised to hear your experience here. Many of my friends have them and only one has ever mentioned a fit issue. He bought larger tips and they now fit perfectly apparently. Researching I can indeed see such products exist, although given Apple appear to be selling over 100 million pairs a year[0] (also surprising to me!), I suspect your estimate is inflated. Note this is over 300,000 pairs per day. Anecdotally, I see people with Airpods daily but have not once ever seen hooks on them. Maybe there's a cultural element at play? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales