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BitRip does this exactly: https://www.bitrip.com/shop
Except they don't have the cutesy startupy mascot that I have.
Haha that’s awesome yes I agree
Did you lose your AirPods?
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Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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The left earbud dying is a frequent problem. Sometimes I sometimes hear about the right, but usually the left. Even more rarely, both die frequently, which isn’t the real issue…they drain the case, right? (if not ignore the rest of this) Want me to blow your mind? The REASON for this is the case. Everyone always suggests cleaning, but that won’t help for the long term. I know because I have tried. I took a pair of tw…
> I am willing to bet Apple brushed a manufacturing defect under the rug. What? that doesn't sound like Apple at all . They would never do that. I get butterflies just thinking that.
The butterfly keyboard was a _design_ defect, and these are very different things. Apple went to great lengths (because telling Jony Ive 'no' was not an option) to try and tweak the design to function correctly in the real world, and failed.
But they came out of the box functioning perfectly, and stayed that way until tiny specks of dust inevitably entered the picture. The entire saga was extremely boneheaded and after I took mine in for a replacement (which, I must say, was out of warranty and only cost me time) I vowed to never buy another MacBook which had that absurd keyboard. Fortunately I didn't have to, they went back to the proven design which is a true beast and just keeps chugging along for years without a single missed or repeated keystroke.
But this is very different from shipping products with known _manufacturing_ defects, and then 'brushing it under the rug', presumably by not issuing a recall. I can't recall even the former happening with post-iPod era Apple products, let alone the latter.
In this particular case, the most likely culprit is pushing the AirPod into the charging slot with enough force to bend down the contact. There isn't a way to manufacture a spring contact which isn't vulnerable to this, and the fix is easy if you have thin enough tweezers. If Apple shipped an edition of AirPods cases with bad contacts, which didn't charge out of the box, it's a safe bet that there would be press about it. Maybe there was, but if so, I missed the 635 comment HN thread about it.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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I guess Apple didn’t bother to connect with the original owner since lot many people do not buy for themselves and as gifts or for parents. So unless AirPods were paired with a device, Apple wouldn’t like to get involved much.
They don’t get involved even if you find an iphone that has John doe still logged on. No clue why they wouldn’t at least send an email to the account owner. I tried to surrender the iphone at the store but they wouldn’t take it.
"Accidentally" leave it at the store, or say, "Hey, this was sitting on the bench in the mall outside your Apple Store" and set it down and walk away before they can say anything.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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You can, and some do, but a lot don’t. I live in NYC and you’ll see area codes from all over the country.
I think NYC is likely to be an extreme outlier in this regard. A lot of people move there from all around the country (and outside it).
Intuitively, I'd agree. But I looked it up and NYC doesn't even rank in the top 10 cities by geographic diversity.
What's interesting is Colorado Springs ranks #2. I'm guessing that's because the Air Force Academy is there, which would make sense because it draws people from all over the country.
Rank. City / % Born in state / Geo diversity index
01. Las Vegas / 25.3% / 82.7
02. Colorado Springs / 33.8% / 80.1
03. Seattle / 38.1% / 79.3
04. Washington, D.C. / 36.2% / 78.8
05. Denver / 41.1% / 77.4
06. Portland / 39.1% / 77.3
07. Mesa / 38.8% / 77.2
08. Phoenix / 40.6% / 77.2
09. Virginia Beach / 39.8% / 77.0
10. San Francisco / 40.1% / 76.8
11. Charlotte / 41.3% / 76.4
12. Boston / 43.7% / 76.1
13. San Diego / 45.5% / 74.8
14. Tucson / 45.8% / 74.2
15. Raleigh / 47.2% / 72.5
16. Oakland / 48.2% / 72.1
17. Los Angeles / 45.6% / 71.8
18. New York / 48.4% / 71.1
19. San Jose / 47.3% / 69.8
20. Jacksonville / 50.6% / 69.8
21. Nashville / 51.8% / 68.8
22. Austin / 53.3% / 68.3
23. Minneapolis / 51.9% / 68.0
24. Atlanta / 51.3% / 67.7
25. Houston / 51.9% / 67.7
26. Albuquerque / 53.4% / 67.6
27. Tulsa / 54.5% / 66.2
28. Dallas / 55.0% / 64.9
29. Kansas City / 54.4% / 64.8
30. Oklahoma City / 56.8% / 64.3
31. Fort Worth / 57.5% / 63.8
32. Long Beach / 56.9% / 63.6
33. Chicago / 59.5% / 61.9
34. Sacramento / 59.5% / 61.9
35. El Paso / 61.9% / 61.9
36. Miami / 29.8% / 61.2
37. Omaha / 59.3% / 61.1
38. Wichita / 63.7% / 57.0
39. Columbus / 64.5% / 56.5
40. San Antonio / 65.5% / 54.9
41. Milwaukee / 65.7% / 54.5
42. Fresno / 66.2% / 53.6
43. Indianapolis / 66.5% / 53.6
44. Memphis / 65.9% / 52.8
45. Philadelphia / 67.9% / 52.3
46. Baltimore / 67.6% / 52.1
47. Louisville / 70.4% / 48.8
48. New Orleans / 70.9% / 47.8
49. Cleveland / 73.1% / 45.0
50. Detroit / 74.5% / 42.4
Source: scraped from https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-ranks... (from 2016, but probably still about the same)
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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Aren’t they like $160? That’s not cheap.
Valuing your time at $20 an hour, that's 8 hours worth of time for them. If the remote hiking spot is ~2 hours away, and it takes roughly an hour to deal with the park authorities, that's already 5 hours, plus transport. Add in the inconvenience of not having them for somewhere between a few days and forever, and I'd also say they aren't really cheap but still it probably isn't worth the effort in that situation.
I wouldn’t necessarily have worked these 8 hours for 160$ after tax, I’d have gone to pick them up.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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Can’t you just turn off Bluetooth easily via Control Center? Top left Bluetooth symbol
That doesn't turn Bluetooth off. It's deceptive. It simply "disconnects" it, but it'll still connect at a random point in the future. It also doesn't really disconnect it since it'll still detect devices and burn away your battery life. And I experimented with it countless times over a couple years. That's why I said you need to do it through settings directly. Otherwise it won't do anything.
Yes it does. Once you tap that button Bluetooth will remain off.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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Just chiming in to say I had the same problem and found a solution. For some reason, my AirPods silently connect to my iPhone while they're in their case and both devices are asleep. Why they do this, I have no clue. Just quality 2020s Apple programming. Anyways, there's an easy solution: go into the settings app (not the drop down menu) and turn off Bluetooth on your phone/ipad when you don't need it. Your AirPods w…
Can’t you just turn off Bluetooth easily via Control Center? Top left Bluetooth symbol
This is accurate.
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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They stay with you if you choose. What's kind of sentimental and nice is that the area code stays with you as marker of where you're originally from no matter where you go. It says "this is where I was from as a teenager when I was first allowed a cell phone." I don't know if this coincided with trend of getting an area code tattoo to signify where you're from, but that also is something that is done by some.
I remember the happy days when a telephone number (also an email) was a ephemeral, changeable thing. Not a permanent unchanging form of ID. Alas, if you move out of the country for a period of time, it is a challenge to maintain the host country phone service. So there are no guarantees that you can hold on to that signifier of "this is where I was the last time I wanted to get a new phone subscription". So the tatto…
Just get a prepaid sim and transfer your number to it, that does the trick for you!
Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
#349 "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind."Re: Did you lose your AirPods?
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Yes, with a strong emphasis on the proprietary part. Apple and Google both have their own networks. All the Apple devices (and now, rolling out, all the Google Play Services enabled devices) scan for nearby Bluetooth LE beacons (that use their protocol) and upload (with some cryptographic operation) the location of the device who found the beacon, together with the accuracy (signal strength) to a proprietary server (…
> My problem with this is that no-one else other than Google and Apple can build an "open" network - you'd have to find a way to push your code to everyone's devices. If you want a non-Apple, non-Google solution, you go to the OG tracker tag -- Tile. You have to install their app, so the reach won't be nearly as extensive, but that is fine by me -- the last thing I want is a third party developer able to push code to…
Yes - but my point for that wasn't about allowing anyone to push anything on random devices. It was about the market penetration of those two companies.
Tile, as you mentioned, will never get any reach since users have to opt-in to start contributing to the location data, making their network incredibly smaller compared to Apple's or Google's own networks.
If you're Tile - you have no way to start such a network because you'd have to convince every single iPhone user (or Android user) to install your app, while Google / Apple can just do it with the push of a button (kind of!)
My point was about starting your own network with a similar coverage - it's nearly impossible. Thus competing with Apple or Google here is extremely difficult.