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Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by rtkwe »

alias_neo wrote: post #43
clusmore wrote: post #20

Off-topic but this website is such a blatant rip-off of the AirPods Pro landing page[1] (EDIT: Discussed at the time [2]), and I _hate_ the UX. I'm not sure what device this is optimised for, but it requires a tonn of scrolling, it's janky, you end up scrolling past the info you want, it breaks basic functionality like Ctrl+F. Why not just make a video instead of a webpage, since that's clearly the effect they're goi…

I had the same thought, having first viewed it on Desktop (FF 75). On mobile it's much smoother (Oneplus 7T Pro), however, it doesn't come close to how in awe I was at the smoothness of the Mavic Mini mini-site on mobile: https://www.dji.com/uk/mavic-mini

The Mavic site is doing something different than the the Airpod and Pixel Buds pages. The Mavic looks like it's triggering the animations once they're on screen. The two other sites are tying those animations directly to the scroll position, on both the Google and Apple sites the videos and animations will play backwards when you scroll back up. The closest the Mavic site comes looks like some of the static images replay if you scroll back up and down.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by rtkwe »

adwi wrote: post #177
crazygringo wrote: post #155

I'm very happy to see better competition with Apple's AirPods. And visually, these look fantastic -- distinct but just as tasteful. The lack of active noise cancellation still seems to leave Google a "generation behind" here, but playing catch-up is still a great thing. But more than anything, I'm fascinated by the "Adaptive Sound" mode. Seriously, for years I've wanted my headphones (and laptop speakers) to auto-adj…

It would be cool if it could (somehow) detect a person speaking directly to you and automatically lower content being played while raising the external microphone volume—assuming it has a feature similar to AirPod Pro’s transparent mode.

That sounds impossible to do on audio alone. How in the world do you tell what sound is directed at a person vs just coming towards them normally?

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by ubercow13 »

satysin wrote: post #231
marcus_holmes wrote: post #192

Please Google, just because my browser is in Berlin, that doesn't mean I speak German. I'd like to look at your product. I might even be interested. But I can't understand what you're telling me. I have language preferences in my account, and you definitely know who I am because you're showing my picture in the top right corner. So why does where I am take precedence over who I am?

I always wondered wtf the browsers language setting is for. Can a website not query this for the preferred language rather than make a language decision based on an IP address geo lookup? I am English, my browsers language order is to set English (UK) then English (generic). No foreign languages. However I live in [redacted] and if I visit a site it will give me a [redacted] version due to my location rather than the…

That is what it's for, it's sent in the request header to every site you visit. It's just that not many sites honour it.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by kevincox »

satysin wrote: post #231
marcus_holmes wrote: post #192

Please Google, just because my browser is in Berlin, that doesn't mean I speak German. I'd like to look at your product. I might even be interested. But I can't understand what you're telling me. I have language preferences in my account, and you definitely know who I am because you're showing my picture in the top right corner. So why does where I am take precedence over who I am?

I always wondered wtf the browsers language setting is for. Can a website not query this for the preferred language rather than make a language decision based on an IP address geo lookup? I am English, my browsers language order is to set English (UK) then English (generic). No foreign languages. However I live in [redacted] and if I visit a site it will give me a [redacted] version due to my location rather than the…

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem which is incredibly frustrating, I wish websites would start to respect it so users start to configure their browser properly.

Users don't configure it (and quite possibly don't know how) so many websites ignore it.

Many websites ignore it so it isn't that useful to learn how to configure it.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by runawaybottle »

encom wrote: post #74
fishbacon wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accessing the link from Denmark just takes me to a generic google products landing page with no mention of a Google Pixel Bud. Found this page https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_buds which links specifically to the US store where I can see the price (for the US) and specs.

Very OT, but I can't wait for this web design fad to go away, where every element is animated and stuff flies around and fades in from every direction. It's like 90's GeoCities, but with more whitespace. Also, I have a Radeon 5700XT GPU, and scrolling is somehow still choppy.

I don’t think it’s going away. A better question might be why are browsers still so slow that it can actually be slowed down by pictures and dom elements triggering re-layouts, or scrollling, or animations?

Maybe let’s just give up on browser apis and start building websites with DirectX/OpenGL.

I’ve seen amazing UIs in a lot of pc games that do all sorts of interesting things with the UI, and I’ve rarely seen those UIs have jank, or stutter.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by pattisapu »

kernelbugs wrote: post #136

Does anyone else really struggle with comfort when using headphones which go into the ear canal (IEMs)? I know there is better sound isolation, but for some reason I cannot stand the minor pressure of them in my ears.

It would be amazing if some sort of wireless headphones like these Google Buds or Apple Airpods could be done over the ear, like:

http://tinyurl.com/yb6qfpes (Koss over-the-ear headphones example)

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by spuz »

programmertote wrote: post #229

I will always have a difficult time deciding to buy a new hardware from Google (maybe except Pixel phone because I have read some good things here and there on HN about it and my wife have been using it for about six months now and does not have a major issue so far although she said the UI is really confusing/annoying at times) after buying two Google home minis at two different times only to end up with both only b…

Have you tried the Google Pixel Buds 1? It might be better to compare their track record when it comes to headphones rather than home assistants.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by fireattack »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #192

Please Google, just because my browser is in Berlin, that doesn't mean I speak German. I'd like to look at your product. I might even be interested. But I can't understand what you're telling me. I have language preferences in my account, and you definitely know who I am because you're showing my picture in the top right corner. So why does where I am take precedence over who I am?

This is an e-store page. It makes sense to follow the region instead of language preferences.

The problem is they ideally should separate UI language from region settings, but most sites don't.

And they may have some difficulties to do so because they could have specific products that they simply don't have info in languages other than the local one.

If you just want to read the description, you can simply change the region below.

If you visit https://www.apple.com/jp/shop/, it only has Japanese too. You can't use JP region store and have it in English at the same time.

Re: Google Pixel Buds

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Post by true_religion »

microtonal wrote: post #212
fxleach wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were many wireless earbuds around the time Apple came out with the AirPods so you're really not selling your point here. Just because a company wants to get into that market now doesn't automatically make it derivative from Apple. The Dash was very popular, people have heard about it. Samsung Gear IconX earbuds were also popular and out before AirPods. Should we say that Apple is derivative of Samsung because t…

None of my friends outside tech circles have heard of "The Dash". They all know and most of them bought or want AirPods. An estimated 60 million AirPods were sold in 2019, nobody else in the category comes close.

I understand, but it’s reasonable to think that engineers might copy the work of other engineers, even if that work didn’t find commercial success.

Why not agree that both Apple and Google we’re inspired by the Dash?

If this were academia, they would probably be required to site them as a source.

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