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Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by obituary_latte »

edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

I'm totally guessing, but could it be actual corporate strategy? If they are easy to steal, AppleCare+ becomes more appealing and/or having to replace them increases sales. It's certainly an easy problem to solve. Can anyone think of any other legitimate reason not to?

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#92

Post by elbigbad »

edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

I lost some new model Pros and learned a lot of the same lessons. It’s weird that anyone would be able to use them? This is the case with the iPhone I believe, where the iPhone is completely useless (except for parts) if it’s connected to someone else’s account.

In my case at least my AirPods ended up in lost and found. I was able to go back to where I lost them with find my, then assist the person working there in finding them by continually playing the sound with a button on my phone.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#93

Post by praseodym »

obituary_latte wrote: post #91
edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

I'm totally guessing, but could it be actual corporate strategy? If they are easy to steal, AppleCare+ becomes more appealing and/or having to replace them increases sales. It's certainly an easy problem to solve. Can anyone think of any other legitimate reason not to?

AppleCare+ doesn't cover theft, there is AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss for iPhone in the US but afaik it is not available for AirPods.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#94

Post by Jedd »

As someone who likes to write more words than is strictly necessary ... that was too much.

I recall here (Australia) in the 1990's as early-gen analog phones were becoming popular, and consequently so too the theft of same, much public hand-wringing about why the 2 or 3 domestic telcos steadfastly refused to offer a service to disable stolen handsets.

The popular theory was that telcos weren't incentivised to do so -- the thief (or whoever they offloaded the handset to) was likely to buy a SIM, and the victim was likely to buy a new phone and a new SIM. If they (telco) disabled a handset, they were disabling a potential (new) long-term customer.

The question continues to come up with all kinds of contemporary doodads that may be the target of theft - anything with a unique ID that's hard to modify and that is likely going to be connected to the internet at some point.

Prima facie these seem like very easy wins for vendors and for law enforcement to a) block, and/or b) track. Presumably the commercials of such an arrangement are not in the original purchaser's favour.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#95

Post by docandrew »

perihelions wrote: post #69
katbyte wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea.. “excuse me I lost my AirPods and my phone is telling me you have them, any chance you grabbed/picked them up” and of course given they are linked to an Apple ID there’s no disputing ownership

- "linked to an Apple ID there’s no disputing ownership" How do you expect to bridge the gap from "polite conversation" to "examining the device ID of a stranger's personal electronics"? This is where the conversation would end: "no; these are actually my devices and you absolutely may not touch them, stranger. Go away". This is either a police matter, or it is nothing: there's no middle ground where you go alone to…

I don’t know, if it’s a normal person doing “finders keepers” vs an actual thief, I think a normal person would be happy to return it to its rightful owner.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

edude03 wrote: post #80

As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account. Once my girlfriend saw my AirPod maxs lying around and wanted to try them. She put them on her head, tapped “continue” or whatever it said under “not your AirPods” and was listening to music in 15 seconds. Obviously they w…

> As someone who has lost three pairs of AirPods (including the newer pros) I’ve never understood why Apple allows another device to pair with headphones that are already paired to an iCloud account.

Seems kind of user hostile to me. I lose my Apple account I lose my headphones too.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by mgkimsal »

byhemechi wrote: post #53

My experience with Find My and Airpods is not great, if i look at them on the map i have had it say that my left airpod is 20km away while it is in fact in my ear.

My phone tells me routinely that I've left my airpods behind wherever I just left, even though... they're paired to the phone I'm using which is telling me I left them behind. At least part of this has been broken for some time. I've switched physical airpods and physical iphones, done firmware and ios upgrades, and it's gotten worse. The one commonality is they're all tied to my apple id.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by grandpoobah »

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…

I really quite like my wireless earbuds, you condescending prick. They're great for fitness, and I've not lost them once in the 3-4 years I've owned them.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by Toutouxc »

BonoboIO wrote: post #85
msoad wrote: post #77

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You are the real MVP. Great idea with ChatGPT. There should be a shortcut for Safari or any browser for a quick TLDR.

I have a service (made using the Shortcuts app) that takes whatever I've highlighted and pipes it to ChatGPT with a prompt that basically says "the user, who is a reasonably educated software developer, wants you to explain/analyze/summarize this piece of text that they've highlighted", and shows the result in a pop-up window.

What's amazing is that I could've built the shortcut on my iPhone while commuting to work, it's all built right in. The same service works without a single change on iPhone, iPad and Mac (where it's possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to it).

Re: Into Thin AirPods

#100

Post by lowercased »

> I imagined the teen casually picking up the AirPods in the co-ed locker room where I had dropped them only moments before, putting them in his pocket, and later breaking them out to play some tunes in front of his parents. I pictured them nodding serenely, approving of their clever son who had somehow produced AirPods out of nowhere.

1980s... my brother had a friend who'd come over our house now and then. My mom's walkman went missing, and the next day the kid comes over with... a walkman. My mom's walkman. He said "look what I got for confirmation!"

Couple of thoughts jumped in to my head:

A) Why would anyone gift you a walkman with a broken battery cover held on with tape?

B) You're not Catholic.

My mom had a really awkward conversation with the kid's mom. I don't even think that went all that smoothly. "Don't call my kid a liar!" "So... you're Catholic and Timmy just went through confirmation?" "None of your business!"

WTF? She did get it back, but it was more broken and then unusable than before because... of course. He was all of about 10? 11? Moderately curious how he turned out and where he is now, but... not enough to bother digging. :)

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