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Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by Scriptal »

Why did they not make the charging port USB C?

I feel like a lot of this mess with needing a different dongle and special wire for each product would have been less of a big deal if everything they did just moved to USB C all at the same time. Now if you want to charge your air pods with a macbook pro you need a cable to go from usb C to thunderbolt (not included) or an adapter to use the previous-gen-usb to lightening cable it does come with.

It feels to me like the different product development teams at Apple didn't communicate with each other at all w.r.t. what ports to use.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by pfranz »

jobu wrote: post #96
plainOldText wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some of the things you hate about iOS 10? I've also disliked a few changes they've introduced, but after spending more time with the OS, I've discovered that some changes were not as bad as I'd initially considered. It was more a matter of getting used to. I guess people don't like changes to the things they've grown accustomed to.

There are a lot of small things that are making me hate iOS 10. 1) Unlock process: When the fingerprint reader fails it now takes several presses on the home key to get a keypad to pop up so I can input my code. With previous versions I could just swipe when I knew the fingerprint reader would fail (e.g. wet hands). 2) App updates: When apps are updating on my phone it decides it really wants to stay on the home scre…

Good news/bad news for 5. Try backing up and restoring. It's a huge pain and shouldn't be required, but it does tend to fix outlier issues.

A friend has a 16gb iPhone and has managed to deal with that little space until just recently. She'd run out of space completely, I'd hand-update apps one-at-a-time trying to free up temp download space. Deleted her local music. A few weeks later deleted her local photos. iMessage claimed 1gb of space, it's a little opaque and manual to clean delete things. I finally convinced her to delete all messages older than 1 year. She got 500mb back. The next day her phone was full again without an obvious reason. Backed up her phone and restored. Everything seems to be there and now she has 5+gb free.

I was having the battery issue they're fixing the 6s for. Because I knew they'd ask I restored my phone (and grabbed yesterdays update because that had a fix related to this, too). It seems to be fixed as well by restoring.

...but all of this is souring me on Apple. I wish I was more confident about other options.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

monochromatic wrote: post #121
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #24

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Maybe because... it IS a marketing page? As much as I've also become an apple hater recently because of what they've done to iOS10 and the new macbook pro, I think criticizing a marketing copy for being a marketing copy is not fair.

What do you hate about iOS10? The new Messages app annoys me, but otherwise it seems fine.

Yes, the new Messages app annoys me.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by vacri »

CPLX wrote: post #89
JadeNB wrote: post #68

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> If you're running and they fall out, you're screwed. On the other hand, this is a silent failure mode in a good sense: if you lose them, then you'll know instantly (because of no music), so at least have a chance of looking for them nearby.

Where they will be discovered conveniently ensconced 15 yards below a subway grate. For those of us that live in cities and commute via public transit, having them fall out is probably 70% as problematic as vanishing entirely.

If only they came with some sort of lanyard...

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by 794CD01 »

skynetv2 wrote: post #39

Why is Apple so obsessed with calling everything "magical". If anyone believes this is magic, they also need to believe Apple employs wizards & witches.

Not necessarily - they don't specify arcane magic. They could be using divine casters like priests or druids.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by pawelwentpawel »

Beats X which are wireless too seem to have a cool solution for keeping them close to the user - there is a cable which stays behind the neck. As well, you can magnetically clip them together. And... get them in red - much easier to find!

I like the idea of AirPods. Unfortunately, my main concern though is that I will use them two or three times during rush hours in London, bump into a couple people on the tube and they'll be gone.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

hsod wrote: post #119
plainOldText wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are some of the things you hate about iOS 10? I've also disliked a few changes they've introduced, but after spending more time with the OS, I've discovered that some changes were not as bad as I'd initially considered. It was more a matter of getting used to. I guess people don't like changes to the things they've grown accustomed to.

My lil complaint is that the "notification actions" are much less smooth then they were in iOS9. This is the feature where you can reply to a text or snooze an alarm or whatever directly in the drop-down notification while the phone is unlocked. Also I've found that apple music CONSTANTLY loses my place if I pause my music for more than a couple minutes. This never used to happen with the old music app.

This is exactly what I meant by apple pushing their own agenda instead of making user experience the priority.

They are pushing this new notification thing which is pretty out of touch with how people actually use the phone--they think interacting directly from the notification is how people want to use it, when most people feel claustrophobic and would rather see the whole thing before making any action--and because of this, it introduces another step for people who just want to open the app and do the damn work

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

kkoomi wrote: post #111
cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #95

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> I guess people don't like changes to the things they've grown accustomed to. Trust me I used to be one of those people who would say the same thing you're saying. I was like "What's the big deal? These people just don't like change. They'll get used to it." Except that you don't anymore. The reason I hate these changes is because things just don't work smoothly and disrupt your workflow, not to mention the UI being…

Nobody is forcing you to upgrade! They must make changes to make progress.

Yes they are. Apple forces you to upgrade all the time. They keep sending push notifications until you find the option hidden somewhere in the settings and turn it off.

You're assuming all changes are progress. They are not.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by andrewaylett »

Cd00d wrote: post #57
seanwilson wrote: post #42

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Bluetooth headphones are great. You don't have to worry about the wire snagging on things and getting in the way. Wires have been progressively eliminated everywhere else e.g. wireless networking, wireless mice, wireless keyboards, wireless phones...I'm not understanding why people are clinging to wireless headphones so hard. Your risk of losing your headphones is really that high?

I like wireless headphones for the simple situation that I switch from podcasts on my phone to video on a kindle fire and back during my commute, and pairing with various devices from a variety of manufacturers seems like it would be very slow compared to popping the jack. Though, to be fair, I've never used wireless headphones (other than xbox), so don't know what the pairing process looks like. I just know that in…

My headphones (Plantronics) will connect to two devices at the same time. The controls interact with whichever was playing more recently, and an existing stream takes priority over a new one. So I can quite happily stop my music from my phone and start up a call from my laptop, then switch back, without re-pairing at all.

If I did need to re-pair, it's as simple as picking the phone from the phone or laptop's recently-used devices list. I usually only have to do that if the phone has decided it wants to keep talking to my headphones while I'm in the car. Pairing from scratch with the phone is as simple as holding the phone to one of the ear cups, but I've only had to do that once and I can't remember which one now.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by phailhaus »

JadeNB wrote: post #68
phailhaus wrote: post #35

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Wires are definitely frustrating, but what's worse is losing them entirely. If you're running and they fall out, you're screwed.

> If you're running and they fall out, you're screwed. On the other hand, this is a silent failure mode in a good sense: if you lose them, then you'll know instantly (because of no music), so at least have a chance of looking for them nearby.

Yeah, except wired headphones also have the same "silent failure mode", and they won't roll away.
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