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There's not a Now Playing complication, is there? I hope I'm just missing it somehow because it'd be my most used complication by a long shot.
Specifically, it's named the Music complication, but it remembers state and will restore the Now Playing UI if it was present.
I don't doubt the ergonomics are amazing, but it's somewhat surprising to me that people are happy with such mediocre audio performance.
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I don't think so. Beats has about 70%+ share of the headphone market, cost over $200, and are hated by people that care about 'sound quality'.
Headphone snobs look down their nose at beats, and for good reason - they are way overpriced for their actual sound quality - but that doesn't mean they aren't good headphones. The problem is that Beats is charging $300 for a $150 set of headphones, not that beats is charging $300 for a $15 set of headphones. They're way better than anything you're going to get for free with your phone.
I'm not sure I can, in good faith, agree with this. The bass is blown way out of proportion to the rest of the track, the highs powered up to compensate for the bass, and the mids are lost in the power struggle. And this is in Beats' flagship "Solo" line.
That description of the sound? It applies to pretty much every default set of headphones out there.
They're hardly unusable, but I would have a hard time justifying paying $15 for them. Then again, I wear Kirkland jeans and conference swag t-shirts, as a measure of my "fashion" factor.
Sincerely, a snob.
My office has some really noisy people, so I wear my AirPods under a set of big ugly 3M ear protector 30dB earmuffs. Works great!
I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.
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Mine have never fallen out, even when running or jumping or leaning over. Do apple's wired earbuds fall out of your ears? Seems like this varies by body.
That's a good point, I hadn't researched into this and it seems like there are solutions out there for ear shapes that don't conform well to Apple headphones. https://appadvice.com/post/airpods-dont-fit/732275
That said, the friction that they add by being too bulky to fit in the case makes any of these half-baked at best. The case is such a core part of what differentiates AirPods. Having to keep track of and put on / take off covers all the time sort of kills the magic.
IMO it's really a problem Apple should solve, or at least accommodate as opposed to leaving up to a hacky third party solution.
I don't doubt the ergonomics are amazing, but it's somewhat surprising to me that people are happy with such mediocre audio performance.
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Specifically, it's named the Music complication, but it remembers state and will restore the Now Playing UI if it was present.
Yes, but (very unfortunately) it only works with the native iOS Music app.
I don't doubt the ergonomics are amazing, but it's somewhat surprising to me that people are happy with such mediocre audio performance.
For music quality, I use Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2. But for VoIP and podcasts, I usually grab the Airpods.