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For people who are interested in this and don't have/want to buy apple stuff: the Chromecast 4k allows this with any bluetooth audio device. It definitely is a super handy feature!
Chromecast Bluetooth was prohibitively laggy in my experience.
The TL;DR on these is "AirPods Pro without ANC", but comparing the two models there are more slight differences such as skin detection and longer battery life. Given that, the $180 price point is odd because the Pros occasionally drop to that level on sale. The new AirPods (and now the old Pros) now have a "MagSafe Wireless Case" which is compatible with the MagSafe charger supposedly, although there isn't more info…
I just discovered last week that on the Apple TV I can connect 2 apple audio devices at the same time. Currently staying with the in laws, daughter is sleeping in the same room with us so we couldn’t watch TV. I connected my wife’s AirPods to the Apple TV to watch tv and noticed I could connect another one, so I borrowed my sister in laws AirPods and connected them and both work at the same time. So now we can watch…
Do they have active noise cancelling? Also, 6 hours listening is a bad joke, that‘s not even a standard workday. With battery aging that‘s soon not even half a workday anymore.
AirPods microphones are atrocious.
Apple Marketing sometimes can be incredulous: >"First with our contour design that delivers sound directly to your ears" What does that even mean?!? These are in-ear headphones, how else are they supposed to deliver sound? Feels silly to have such a comment to make a two point slide.
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That isn’t the only competition though. I have a lot of headphones and my favorite pair hasn’t fallen apart in 10 years.
Sure, my previous ones lasted a long time, too. My point was simply that there's a weird trend to talk about this as an Apple thing rather than the global trend across most industries it actually is.
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That was 'a stunt' which 'makes no economic sense' https://www.ifixit.com/News/15794/apple-daisy-cobalt-recycli...
I like the iFixit people, but that article is pretty bad. One of the reasons this list as a failure is this: > People aren’t giving Apple back their phones, because old iPhones are worth dramatically more on the used market than the material cost Would they really rather see people recycling rather than reusing? Also, why would it have to make economic sense? Sometimes companies do things because it's the right thing…
Maybe these new AirPods have better sound and battery, but from a minimalist perspective they are still unnecessary. If you talk on the phone a lot, maybe I see the value. But the wired Apple headphones work fine for that, and they don’t randomly stop working while you’re on a call.