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I've never used AirPods but I can say their microphones are awful: whenever I'm talking to someone who is on AirPods, I can immediately tell it from the very low audio quality. This happens with many, many people. When they switch to their iPhone mic, it literally sounds like the audio version of upgrading from 144p to 4K.
I've never used AirPods but I can say their microphones are awful: whenever I'm talking to someone who is on AirPods, I can immediately tell it from the very low audio quality. This happens with many, many people. When they switch to their iPhone mic, it literally sounds like the audio version of upgrading from 144p to 4K.
Apple may have already fixed this issue in newer firmware/models.
I don't agree at all. I love the product but I have to buy a new pair of airpods every few years very consistently. It's either battery capacity loss, or crackling audio issues, or both to the point of not being usable. The Apple Genius always comes up with a story like "well it's out of warranty and the cost of repair is about the same as just buying new ones so you make the call dear customer."
When Apple discontinued the first generation of AirPods, the final firmware release had a bug that was never fixed. It caused the left AirPod to disconnect after one or two minutes. Hundreds of thousands of loyal customers were affected [0], including me. You couldn't even buy a second hand left AirPod because of a firmware version mismatch. I still love Apple products, but under Tim Cook, it feels like they care mor…
But I guess that's why quality has been allowed to decrease - the customers aren't leaving, myself included, so why would they bother until it's a real danger to their marketshare.
edit I'm also not sure who to put the blame on for software quality. I'm not entirely sure if it's Cook's direction, Craig, or a combination of a changing culture within Apple.
I've never used AirPods but I can say their microphones are awful: whenever I'm talking to someone who is on AirPods, I can immediately tell it from the very low audio quality. This happens with many, many people. When they switch to their iPhone mic, it literally sounds like the audio version of upgrading from 144p to 4K.
I don't agree at all. I love the product but I have to buy a new pair of airpods every few years very consistently. It's either battery capacity loss, or crackling audio issues, or both to the point of not being usable. The Apple Genius always comes up with a story like "well it's out of warranty and the cost of repair is about the same as just buying new ones so you make the call dear customer."
I have several pair, because I thought the batteries were going too quickly.
Turns out, I should have just not left the case on the charger, all the time.
Nowadays, I just let them charge for a couple of hours, every few days, take them off the charger, and leave them in my coin tray.
I haven’t had a single battery issue, since; even on the ones I thought were “dead.”
But I think it’s a big design error, that this happens. Everything else has”smart charging.”
1. Lost a pair 2. Lost one bud from a pair 3. Washed them 4. Swam in the ocean with them 5. Had a pair generally degrade
So I know once I buy a pair, I'm good for about a year until I need another. That's also when I tend to notice the new features. :-)
Wait, y'all can still use your 3 year old AirPods? On mines, the battery went nuts in ~18 months, and I don't even use them that much.