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AirPods don't “just work”

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Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by HatchedLake721 »

davidbenhaim wrote: post #123

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Can people stop overusing and throwing the word “monopoly” every time they’re not happy with an Apple service or product?

What’s next? Apple is monopoly on ARM? Smartwatches? Monitors? Touchpads?

It sounds like a cheap internet attempt to bash a company using a lately popular but completely irrelevant word in relation to AirPods.

I use both AirPods and Bose QC35 II for years, everyday for hours, without any issues. I haven’t had my Bose quality of experience degrade, so I don’t know what you’re on about.

You enable pairing mode, select your headphones in list of Bluetooth devices, that’s it.

They even swap between Mac and iPhone without much issues.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by Causality1 »

Nextgrid wrote: post #154
Causality1 wrote: post #139

if you instantly play the music you were listening to right before the call by clicking the play button on your keyboard, your music will play at a lower audio quality I don't recall the names of the specific bluetooth profiles, but I wish Airpods and bluetooth headphones in general gave you more control over this. Sure, the older headset profile is noticeably lower quality but it's also virtually lag-free. I have a…

It's AD2P vs HSP profiles. One gives you good (well, compressed but decent enough) stereo audio one way, one provides shitty audio but both ways. I'm surprised as to why Apple couldn't come up with a better protocol that would manage to do both or switch number of channels & quality seamlessly.

Nobody seems to care, is the thing. Qualcomm is now deprecating APTX-LL in favor of APTX-Adaptive even though it's 50% laggier even under ideal circumstances.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by Nextgrid »

jdminhbg wrote: post #128
lowercased wrote: post #60

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That simply doesn't work for me. Regardless of what options I set, about 60% of the time, if I'm talking on an iphone with airpod pros, and I walk within a few feet of my mac (which does have a connection to the airpods), it will switch from the phone while I'm talking and... there's no reliable way to get that back. In the phone app, clicking 'airpods'... is slow as molasses and sometimes shows them as connected aga…

In case you don’t know this, since it isn’t obvious, you have to set them not to automatically connect on each device they are paired to. And if you unpair and re-pair them you have to do it again. This is annoying but not as annoying as auto-pairing.

I hope it works for the parent, but in my case even that doesn't work. Whatever extra protocol or other crap they introduced with this "automatic switching" feature is garbage and worsens the experience even if you disable the new functionality. The audio menu and connection/disconnection being slow as molasses is a new thing introduced by this change.

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Post by nisegami »

xg15 wrote: post #167
chii wrote: post #156

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I used to be like you. Then i tried, for real, a pair of bluetooth headphones. The disadvantages of the bluetooth is by far outweighed by the wireless advantage. The mobility, flexibility and convenience of no tangles and accidental wire pulling and causing phone to drop - all worth it. And wireless UX is only going to get better. Wired is dead.

The mobility, flexibility snd convenience of me still sitting on front of the same PC for eight hours?

Use the right tool for the job. Sometimes that's wired headphones. Sometimes that's bluetooth headphones.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

yoz-y wrote: post #113
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #100

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Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment. Courage, indeed. And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...

Honestly, the fact that I no longer snag my earphones on random protrusions, like doorknobs and bus ticket validating machines is a bliss. Cables inside at a desk: sure, why not. Cables outside: hard pass.

I'd pass the wires through my shirt, keep them from snagging or pulling my ears too much.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by bamboozled »

fab1an wrote: post #17

Yeah, 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.

Pretty sure I had that from my QC 35 II

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by toyg »

yoz-y wrote: post #113
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment. Courage, indeed. And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...

Honestly, the fact that I no longer snag my earphones on random protrusions, like doorknobs and bus ticket validating machines is a bliss. Cables inside at a desk: sure, why not. Cables outside: hard pass.

I agree, but the awkward "omg an airpod fell off after bumping into something/someone" is also a real thing. They should have an optional cord between the pair.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by soared »

davidbenhaim wrote: post #123

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Apple has not degraded 3p Bluetooth - that is bullshit. My Bose work just the same as they did years ago and behave similarly to my AirPods.

You cannot expect Apple to not develop better features in their own products.

This is not anything close to monopoly and it’s wild to say that.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by delecti »

chii wrote: post #156
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment. Courage, indeed. And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...

I used to be like you. Then i tried, for real, a pair of bluetooth headphones. The disadvantages of the bluetooth is by far outweighed by the wireless advantage. The mobility, flexibility and convenience of no tangles and accidental wire pulling and causing phone to drop - all worth it. And wireless UX is only going to get better. Wired is dead.

I will stick with wired headphones for the overwhelming majority of usecases. There are just not enough downsides to cables compared to never needing to switch audio devices in a conferencing app, awkwardly change OS settings before jumping on a call, or ever charging my headphones.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by neutronicus »

yoz-y wrote: post #113
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y’know what headphones really did “just work” though? Wired headphones, circa 2017. Their battery life was infinite. You could “pair” them in seconds to any device with a headphone jack, aka any device, because we’re in 2017. Oh, and they were cheaper and better for the environment. Courage, indeed. And this is why I’m currently typing my comment on an iPhone 6S...

Honestly, the fact that I no longer snag my earphones on random protrusions, like doorknobs and bus ticket validating machines is a bliss. Cables inside at a desk: sure, why not. Cables outside: hard pass.

Yeah, and Bluetooth phones / buds are much better for running.

I used to jerk my wired earbuds out of the jack all the time.

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