Oofta. Is anyone having trouble with white text on black background? That was a design anti pattern that I thought died out in the early 2,000's.
AirPods don't “just work”
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#12Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pong" low-battery noise, right in my ear, without warning. And it's Apple, so of course you can't turn it off.
You'd be no better off with a Sony Headphone that screams in your ear that a device connected, the device is turned on and the battery is almost empty. The flagship Sony headphone is so bug ridden it's a joke if you ask me.
I can't comment on the bugs (I'm actually not sure that I've experienced any), but those connected etc. Messages really are very annoying, partly because they feel like forever
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#13>Annoyance 4: Sometimes, only the left or right AirPod plays sound. Taking them in/out of your ears doesn't fix it, you need to put it back into the case and take it back out, which sometimes, doesn't fix it. So you need to put your AirPods in/out of your case two or three times to fix it.
I run into this too, anyone know what's up with that? Is there some "listen with only one headphone in" feature that I'm accidentally enabling?
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#14One of my past coworkers worked on AirPods hardware.
One thing he could've said under gazillions of NDAs: software came much behind the hardware.
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#15Oofta. Is anyone having trouble with white text on black background? That was a design anti pattern that I thought died out in the early 2,000's.
How’s that an anti-pattern? With dark mode, it’s more in style than ever now.
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#16As for 1) You can configure devices not to auto-connect unless previously connected
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#17Yeah, they're great, but definitely not quite perfect / magical.
Another thing I noticed is that using the noise cancelling ocassionally gives me terrible, luckily short-lived tinnitus. Never encountered that with other (over or on ear) noise cancelling devices.
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#18For me personally, one of the most infuriating product design decisions that Apple made was the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhones and iPads. This is literally the only reason why I switched to Android, despite being a long-time Apple user.
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#19A list of a variety of bugs isn't what I expected from the title.
Airpods are nice, but outside the Apple ecosystem they're horrendous (and somehow still better than most alternatives...). The proprietary chip / protocol in use makes me sad, but what makes me even sadder is that they're not actually even working on supporting them as a good product on Android.
Maybe it makes economical sense but it's really sad that we got to the point that a company can release hardware and go out of their way not to support a significant amount of potential customers. This feels like what anti-monopoly regs try to prevent, but it's not a monopoly either so ...
Also, the microphone quality is a lot worse than people say it is (I'm using the Pro version). They are barely usable for calls in a loud environment.
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#20I had one pair of AirPods and left the charging case on a plane; getting a replacement case was a pain because I had to prove the AirPods were mine. When the battery died in them I gave up on them completely. Battery life too short, too easy to lose, and environmentally not sound.