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Post by Gigachad »

robertwt7 wrote: post #319

Airpods is one of the invention that you don’t know you need it but when you buy it, you know it’s good and it just works seamlessly It mentioned in the page that it’ll support high fidelity audio? Does this mean that they came up with new encoding for wireless transmission? Possibly something better than AAC?

I was a big airpods hater before I got them myself. And yeah, everything people complain about is real, they aren't perfect. But they are so good that I'd rather deal with every single one of the issues than go back to wired.

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Post by caeril »

jmspring wrote: post #59
emadabdulrahim wrote: post #40

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Yup. Unfortunately every other Bluetooth headphones suck when it comes to connectivity and stable playing. Been using Airpods Max for a year and never had a connection issue.

I ended up giving my airpod pros to my partner. I found both the connectivity and sound quality (as well as noise canceling) much better on my Sony WF-1000MX4s. edit: isolation replaced with canceling

The WF-1000MX4s are absolutely PERFECT with the sole exception of the non-tactile controls. If they replaced the touch sensors with actual buttons, they would be the best earbuds on the market.

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Post by askafriend »

deanmoriarty wrote: post #317

Honest question: how can folks justify spending $250+tax on a device that in just a year or two of significant usage will not be usable anymore due to degraded battery? I was gifted a pair and after two years the battery lasts less than one hour in playback mode, and just a few minutes in call mode. What a disappointment. Am I expected to spend another $280?! I also do not want to spend $50+ for a third party battery…

There's no other product that does what it does as well as it does it.

It's a no-brainer purchase for me and I won't even blink at replacing them if they're ever lost.

I basically can't imagine my life without them (walking around the city, workouts, playing sports, airports/planes, etc). I can imagine this is much less important if you live in a suburb and mostly commute via car or don't have physically active hobbies.

Ultimately yes it does suck that they're expensive but the alternative of not having them sucks way more IMO.

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Post by Gigachad »

celestialcheese wrote: post #324
deanmoriarty wrote: post #317

Honest question: how can folks justify spending $250+tax on a device that in just a year or two of significant usage will not be usable anymore due to degraded battery? I was gifted a pair and after two years the battery lasts less than one hour in playback mode, and just a few minutes in call mode. What a disappointment. Am I expected to spend another $280?! I also do not want to spend $50+ for a third party battery…

I use them everyday while working, for multiple hours per day and can expense them. They work better than other bluetooth headsets I've tried, and the noise cancelling is excellent in loud environments. I'm willing to pay a premium for the convenience and seamless pairing to other Apple products I already have (Apple TV, macbook, iphone).

Other than my phone I'm not sure there is another device I own that has given me more benefit per $ than airpods.

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stemlord wrote: post #314
jen729w wrote: post #291

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Are you saying that she was pairing them with a non-Apple device? In which case, fair enough perhaps, but it feels a tad unfair to put the burden of universal discovery for all host devices on Apple. And is it really that un-discoverable? What would you do on any other Bluetooth device? You'd look for a button. What is there on the AirPods case? A button. I still say: if you have a simpler idea, let's hear it. Edit:…

> it feels a tad unfair to put the burden of universal discovery for all host devices on Apple. I guess, but I've always felt apple deliberately thwarts such efforts for product lock in >And is it really that un-discoverable? What would you do on any other Bluetooth device? You'd look for a button. What is there on the AirPods case? A button. Lol but like I said you also have to arbitrarily open the lid and place bot…

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Post by RockRobotRock »

smoldesu wrote: post #19
TobyTheDog123 wrote: post #8

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Anecdotally, I've never had this issue. Is it something that happens often?

Yep. Airpods simply do not support decent sounding duplex audio: https://youtu.be/N6Y_Q7RYmmY?t=351

No bluetooth device supports decent duplex audio, that I know of.

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Post by Gigachad »

foolfoolz wrote: post #52
erikpukinskis wrote: post #3

I would love to buy AirPods one day, but I have just had too many experiences telling someone on Zoom they sound like they’re under water, and they say, “hold on a sec that’s my AirPods.” If Apple could fix that issue, this would be a nice product! Unfortunately I don’t know how Apple could ever signal to me that they had fixed that issue.

honestly you have to use the right tool for the job. if you’re speaking on video for a significant portion of the day you should have a microphone

Even just use the microphone on the macbook, its significantly better than the airpods mic and it doesn't cause the audio quality on your airpods to drop like you get when the mic is active.

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Post by astrange »

Angostura wrote: post #182
lph wrote: post #85

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I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unreliable and worse than useless for the work Zoom meetings I bought them for. Maybe I'm old-fashioned for expecting any piece of technology to last longer than a year.

It sucks. But in the EU/UK you would have simply got them replaced.

There was an extended repair program for AirPods Pro, so they would've got them replaced anyway.

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Post by tinus_hn »

MBCook wrote: post #320
puyoxyz wrote: post #249

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While they don’t have the excellent UX of Airpods with Apple products when used with non-Apple products, I’ve never experienced this “erratic behavior”. They just work like bluetooth headphones with no weird issues. I regularly use them with my desktop on both Linux and Windows, I’ve used them with my Nintendo Switch, etc… and no erratic behavior

Agreed. You put them in the case, hold the one button (basically the “pair” button) for a sec, and connect from your device. Bam. Work perfectly after that.

For some reason on Windows AirPods show up as two different types of devices (not left and right) one of which sounds very bad with a lot of noise. And of course if you connect AirPods with your iPhone and your Windows laptop they’ll start fighting over who gets to connect.

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Post by Gigachad »

Wingman4l7 wrote: post #261
turtlebits wrote: post #256

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It's $50 for Apple to change the battery. My Airpods from 2017 still last around an hour, which is fine for when I need to get on meetings.

I call bull on this -- the plastic halves of the earbud casings are ultrasonically sealed together; you have to break them apart to get at the guts (and IIRC the battery is also soldered in). Just look up the iFixit teardown; they're completely unrepairable. My bet is, they are just swapping them out with refurbs and writing off the loss against their AppleCare earnings.

They are absolutely just giving you new ones. Id suggest it's largely possible because the profit margins are quite high on them so giving you new ones is way cheaper than the retail price.
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