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Into Thin AirPods

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Re: Into Thin AirPods

#42

Post by mavu »

Every single time I see a person with Airpods or other true wireless earphones, i cannot help but smile.

Because it is always nice to see other people clearly marked as guillable fools, who marvel at the emperors new clothes.

I hope this trend never dies, because it really does provide endless entertainment to me.

And I suspect Apple hopes this as well, because they are making a killing selling expensive shit to the same people over and over again.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#43

Post by whywhywhywhy »

cnity wrote: post #5
superchroma wrote: post #2

tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.

Have you ever read a novel? You'd hate them.

lol, lets not compare this sort of journalism to a novel now...

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#45

Post by arjvik »

mavu wrote: post #42

Every single time I see a person with Airpods or other true wireless earphones, i cannot help but smile. Because it is always nice to see other people clearly marked as guillable fools, who marvel at the emperors new clothes. I hope this trend never dies, because it really does provide endless entertainment to me. And I suspect Apple hopes this as well, because they are making a killing selling expensive shit to the…

Why so? They solve a problem, namely convenient tether-free but non-intrusive headphones, and Airpods are nearly unrivaled in implementation.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#46

Post by systemtest »

paulgb wrote: post #17
MadSudaca wrote: post #11

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I don’t think the pair she saw was actually them. My guess is that the thief didn’t have an iPhone and the boy did, so it was the boy’s iPhone that reported the AirPods location to Apple whenever he crossed paths with the actual thief. Note that the airpods were not picked up on the drive to the suburbs, suggesting that nobody in the car had an iPhone. But the author had a clear view of the boy’s phone in the museum…

Which is likely also why police won't enter a residential building based on Find My iPhone.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#47

Post by nailer »

Holy hell this is a frustrating read. To save anyone else the time the owner loses their AirPods find them but chooses not to confront the person that stole them. This is the entire story.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#48

Post by crossroadsguy »

bogantech wrote: post #7
cnity wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever read a novel? You'd hate them.

A novel about lost headphones would be a surefire hit

Give it to Nolan. He will bring time travel, theory of pseudo-relatively and everything else in it, in the end revealing it was actually all about espionage and those pods contained sensitive information that a clever time travelling agent has hidden on in. Shit, I just gave it away. Spoiler alert!

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#49

Post by layer8 »

spuz wrote: post #4
superchroma wrote: post #2

tl;dr, she loses her airpods which are subsequently stolen and doesn't get them back. Lot of writing about a chase that ultimately results in nothing.

And the story is very well written and fun to read.

That’s very subjective.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#50

Post by layer8 »

vxNsr wrote: post #16

wait, wasn't the moral here that the airpods find my feature is faulty and she was getting fake locations.

No, the moral is that if you’re indecisive, you can write a long-winded anecdote of it that doesn’t really go anywhere. ;)
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