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I guess the flip side of this is that you look like a fucking dork.
by DrillShopper 2y ago
I guess the flip side of this is that you look like a fucking dork.
- Mistletoe 2y agoThe main impediment I would experience to wearing this on a plane.
- atestu 2y agoI think that will fade. I don't know if you remember how mocked the airpods were when they first came out ("They look like q-tips"). All it'll take is a few celebrities spotted using one and they'll turn cool in no time.
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- mft_ 2y agoYou're not wrong, but I think there's at least a couple of orders of magnitude of awkwardness between the Airpods and the the Vision Pro that will have to be overcome, before the VP becomes mainstream.
- Terretta 2y agoImagine the first person wearing bell bottom jeans. Some folks just DGAF, and next thing you know ...
- nine_k 2y agoThere were times when going to an office wearing a T-shirt felt crazy, like going to an office while wearing a bikini, or wearing a clown attire, would be now. It changed maybe in late 1990s. Things like these change very slowly, then suddenly, once the views of the perceived majority around most people change enough that the people start to see the new state as proper and confirmant, a new norm.
- asdff 2y agoairpods at least had the equivocal wired headphones normalizing that look for a decade before they appeared.
- ks2048 2y agoI don't think it will pass, but I think subsequent versions will be slimmer and less mock-prone. In 10 years people will look back at the first version the way people look back at the first bulky cell phones.
- righthand 2y agoAirpods aren’t cool though, the majority don’t wear them nor can they afford them.
- samatman 2y agoYou appear to be a bit unclear on what cool means.
- kibwen 2y agoAir pods are about as cool-looking as a hearing aid. At best, they're utilitarian.
- righthand 2y agoAre you sure you’re not conflating cool with elitism?
- TillE 2y agoZillions of people are out there wearing cheap AirPod knockoffs too. I don't think any ear buds are "cool", but certainly nobody cares, it's perfectly normal.
- DidYaWipe 2y agoI don't recall the AirPods ever being mocked. Why would they be, after years and years of almost identical-looking earbuds being sported in public? But long before that we had DoucheTooth (or BlueTool, whichever you prefer) earpieces. Now those were mocked.
- doublepg23 2y agoYou can check out Reddit threads around the launch https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/51yazy/this_is_what_airpods_look_like_from_the_front/ https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/51yazy/this_is_what_...
- SoftTalker 2y agoAirPods also make you look like a dork.
- mihaaly 2y agoDepending on your circles. In many doing what a celebrity does means squat, or backfires. Better watch our peers.
- pmarreck 2y agoI was a high school computer nerd in the 80's. They all said that about me then too, and I didn't care. But to your point, it will probably get slicker over time. For this one, they erred on the side of high fidelity, and they nailed it pretty well.
- DrillShopper 2y agoOh, I have no doubt that it will get better over time, but I think people forget that part of the early adopter tax is often that you look like a fucking dork. Which in my mind isn't a bad thing - it shows that you're committed to making it work. There's something noble about that, wouldn't you say?
- pmarreck 2y ago"early adopter tax"- love that, may have to borrow it And you're right! And some of us will happily pay that! It is the _bleeding_ edge, after all.
- usui 2y agoUpvote for doubling down on the "look like a fucking dork" phrase. I wasn't sure at first if this was self-deprecating humor, but now I am. Neeeeeerd!
- tesch1 2y agoAlso be sure not to let anyone see you browsing HN.
- sterlind 2y agoHN isn't well-known outside deep tech circles. anyone who clocks you reading it probably reads it too.
- isodev 2y agoYup, the person wearing one literally gets the “drives a cybertruck” spotlight.
- accrual 2y agoAt least the AVP seems like a reasonably engineered piece of equipment. The cybertruck has a seemingly unending list of flaws documented in /r/cyberstuck.
- elevatedastalt 2y agoAnd yet the Cybertruck was the 3rd highest selling Electric vehicle in the US this year.
- beAbU 2y agoThis says more about the average car buyer in the US than anything else to be honest.
- elevatedastalt 2y agoThat's not relevant, since the point of discussion is if enough people will buy the thing. If it makes you look like a dork and yet it's the third most selling EV, you might blame the judgment of the average car buyer of the US (for whom you seem to have contempt), but you can't dispute that the product sold.
- accrual 2y agoIt's possible for those concerned with this to overcome it! Most people are way more focused on themselves than whatever a random person is wearing in public, and will likely forget the encounter the second they set foot off the plane.
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- hbn 2y agoTo their credit, Apple users save a lot of money by living rent-free in your head. 99% of Apple users are not thinking about how much better they are than other people for buying the phone or computer they did. They just bought it because it's the obvious choice and they've had good experiences with it in the past. Every time an anti-Apple zealout busts out the spec sheets to prove why alternatives are so much better, there's about 8000 gotchas and usability issues that aren't worth the tradeoff for most people. You're free to not think the tradeoffs of Apple devices are worth it for you, but for everyone else (most people) they make the best option that puts up the minimal amount of fighting and a handful of workflows that you simply can't recreate in other ecosystems without dozens of asterisks.
- righthand 2y agoEvery time an Apple zealot busts out counter points to prove their purchasing choice is better there’s about 8000 gotchas of what Apple won’t let you do on their device that aren’t worth the trade off for most people. You’re free to think the tradeoffs of non-Apple devices aren’t worth it for you, but for everyone else (most people since most people don’t own an Apple device) they make the best option that puts up minimal amount of fighting to customize your device and use it how you like without restriction. A handful of workflows that you simply can’t get in the Apple ecosystems without dozens of Apple zealots telling you’re wrong for choosing something else and bragging that their choice is somehow superior.
- zmmmmm 2y agoLife is way too short to spend it worrying about what other people think about this type of thing. Reality is, they almost never care and are far more concerned about their own problems than whether someone else looks like a dork.
- Aachen 2y agoSo much judgment, but at least that won't change for me then