Into Thin AirPods • Hacker News Board

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by suzzer99 » Fri, May 12, 2023, 1:56 PM UTC

lowercased wrote: post #100

> 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…

> Moderately curious how he turned out

Probably not well with parents like that.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by ska » Fri, May 12, 2023, 1:57 PM UTC

addandsubtract wrote: post #87

msoad wrote: post #77

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That's an excellent summary. It fails to mention the author's reluctance to confront the potential perpetrator, and doesn't mention the author's colorful writing style. But for a summary in three sentences, this is spot on.

> That's an excellent summary.

I’m not so sure. The summary captures some of the "facts" in the story, but not what it is actually about. Surely a summary should do that? You point out some of what’s missing, but there is more. The story is as much about social expectations as anything else, as well as authors relationship with technology, limitations of that technology, etc.

None of that appears above, which could be considered a partial plot synopsis at best … but misses/mix states important details like: it’s always unclear whether or not she has been close to “the thief”.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by stodor89 » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #41

Inserting random headphones from another person in your ear is extremely gross.

So is stealing headphones though.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by ska » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

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

"A novel about an old guy fishing would be a surefire hit"

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by suzzer99 » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

yardie wrote: post #71

On a different story: Our son had his iPhone stolen from him at school. He was in 6th grade and put his bag down to play ball when someone must have walked up and rummaged through his backpack. Once he realized it was stolen he called me from his friend's phone. I jumped on Find My and had it down to a house. They turned it off as soon as I pinged and sent a message to it. So, I called the principal and told her, "Co…

I had a guy break into my car and write bad checks to himself with my checkbook that he found in the glove compartment. He had a very unique name, so I was able to pinpoint where he lived, and see that he'd been in trouble with the law for similar stuff in the past. The cops did nothing of course.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by edude03 » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:06 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #96

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.

I don't think it's user hostile to give users the option to do this. Also, realistically, you're more likely to have your headphones lost/stolen than your apple account and for most(?) apple users, I imagine being locked out of their apple account would be worse than losing access to their headphones considering they would also lose their files, photos, messages, subscriptions etc.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by kayodelycaon » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

mgkimsal wrote: post #97

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.

I have this happen with every Apple device I own, except AirTags. I’ll have a laptop, AirPods, and an iPad in my backpack. Every time I leave a location, one of them goes “missing”.

And trying to convince my AirTag to not go bonkers every time I leave a hotel room is a losing battle.

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by mercutio2 » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

schwartzworld wrote: post #103

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I agree. I have several old iOS devices that are basically bricked because there's no way to factory reset them without first unlocking the device.

You can DFU any old iPhone and erase install any appropriately signed version of iOS on it.

What you can’t do is finish activation without a network connection and the last signed in AppleID account password.

Are you saying you don’t have the password for the last signed in AppleID?

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by bee_rider » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:09 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #96

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.

It could default to on, but be optional. (Thus providing a “herd immunity” of sorts while still allowing you to do it your way).

Re: Into Thin AirPods

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Post by bee_rider » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:10 PM UTC

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?

Ease of use and they didn’t think of it?

Most headphones don’t have a lockout feature.