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> I actually look around regularly at the train station, and I still see mostly wired headsets. I see the occasional default Apple headphones, but the vast majority of people are using Airpod-alikes.
Maybe an American thing. Look around at Amsterdam CS or Utrecht CS or Rotterdam CS. Mostly wired.
I've idly thought that Spotify should get into hardware. Headphones and/or speaker, purchase it connected to your account, and one touch button to a stream of music you like. Obviously a million times easier said than done, but has to be a better margin business than where they currently are and would be good lock in.
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I strongly disagree about the fashion bit. The iPod was better than any competitor it faced ever. The UI with the click wheel was completely unmatched. Maybe the Zune, years later, came close, but Apple absolutely crushed it with the iPhone and iPod touch. The iPhone was leaps and bounds ahead of its time, to the point that the then King of the hill, BlackBerry, didn’t even think it was possible. And the smoothness o…
AirPods are objectively great and it has taken 3 years for anything better to come out (and I would rather have seamless pairing than negligible audio quality improvements), but fashion is absolutely part of this. The same is true of the iPod and of the iPhone. To me, that doesn’t diminish from the fact that those are/were best-in-class products, but the ubiquity is absolutely based on fashion. The same is true of th…
As always, none of the numbers are official, so take all of them with a huge grain of salt. The article also doesn't link to a single source, not even an unofficial one. > Assuming an even split of sales between Gen 1, Gen 2, and AirPods Pro, Airpods revenue was $12 billion in 2019 This itself is a terrible assumption. AirPods Pro launched in November 2019, so had just 2 months of sales. Even otherwise, there is neve…
Cherry-picking the detail you think is most important from an article is a form of editorializing. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, do not do so by changing the title. Instead, post it as a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.
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Really? In my view it's just a phone, just use whatever you prefer but I can't relate to getting used to an interface as per se
It’s muscle memory. Imagine how inefficient you’d be if someone moved the vowels to a different spot on your keyboard. While both keyboards are nearly the same, everything you type would be wrong for quite a while.
Unless you mean the wider ecosystem, in which case I agree.
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> (in part thanks to Apple and many Android OEMs dropping headset jacks). That only happened on high-end smartphones. Low-end and mid-range still have 3.5 mm socket. (Also, I actually look around regularly at the train station, and I still see mostly wired headsets. I'm using a wireless one, btw.)
Indeed. Here in SE Asia, everybody still uses 3.5mm jack smartphones. It's a rare occurrence to see wireless earpods, and almost always these are cheap Chinese AirPod knockoffs.
This does not match my experience at all, but SE Asia is a diverse place.
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Imagine thinking that AirPods were the first wireless headset.
Imagine thinking the AirPods are a "headset."