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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

veidr wrote: post #251
NasEscobar wrote: post #192

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Messages is too busy now, there's too much going on in that app. It's a mess of sharing options and emoji.

Messages is an utterly perfect, textbook example of software bloat. There are now so many garbage features, tangential to the core purpose of the app — self-deleting audio blips if you move the phone this way, internet GIF search if you swipe that way, weird drawing pad, stupid variable-location popup to add "HA HA HA" animation, recently-played music grid, full-screen-or-sometimes-not fingerpainting applet, image ed…

Yeah, I really wonder who's in charge of this mess.

Like I said somewhere else in this thread, all these new features are for Apple, not for users.

If they designed it for users, they would have NEVER made it so that they have to tap twice to take a photo before sending. Not to mention how they don't even allow you to open the camera as fullscreen.

Isn't it really ridiculous how nowadays when you want to take a quick picture and send it while messaging, you have to close the messages app, open the camera app, take the photo, and share it back to messages? Used to be: tap the camera button. Take the pic. Send.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by ksk »

j2bax wrote: post #166
1_2__3 wrote: post #106

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The most profitable company in the world doesn't need us to carry their water for them. Let Gruber take care of that. You're literally trying to defend Apple for using the term "magical" to refer to a pair of pedestrian wireless headhones. Come on.

To someone that uses headphones for many hours on a daily basis, useful innovation in the space definitely feels magical to me considering how long I've been using the same old dumb wired headphones.

The point is, if you want to convince others why it is so, you have to play by their rules. Your opinion is simply your opinion.

I do like _some_ of Apple's products, but I would never spend 150 dollars on these headphones. I'm hoping that Apple cheerleaders will drive down the cost so I can get the version 2/3 for cheap when all the bugs have been ironed out.

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Post by mslev »

jdc0589 wrote: post #237
pjc50 wrote: post #209

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I guess this depends on your ears; I've never had a pair of in-ear phones that don't fall out after 5 minutes.

this is a ridiculous suggestion price wise, but check out custom IEMs. They are expensive as hell, but I have no issue spending money on something I use for HOURS every single day. Sound quality is often much much better too.

Shure SE215s. Not all that expensive, but for the price they're an amazing IEM. You can also get a cable that has a mic/remote in it.

Re: AirPods are now available

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

Has anybody got standard bluetooth headphones and found a way to reliably use them on multiple Apple devices? Mine are usually paired to my phone, and it's just not worth the hassle of unpairing and pairing repeatedly until the Macbook picks them up as unpaired and lets me try to pair with them, which works about half the time. Maybe my Macbook's bluetooth is just broken.. This is kinda disappointing though because I know it'll never get fixed, because why bother when if I just bought headphones from them I wouldn't have the problem?

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Post by j2bax »

bhauer wrote: post #261
j2bax wrote: post #227

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I had a pair of wired Sony's wayyyyy back in the day in this wrap around ear/neck band form factor that I really loved when I was a kid. Lately though, I find anything that covers my ear too warm and uncomfortable. This is why I'm excited about the AirPods. I wouldn't really classify these Motorola's as truly wireless because of the connecting band.

That's cool with me. A sense I have picked up from your reply and another message in this thread is that Apple is attempting to evolve the definition of "wireless headphone" to require no bridge between the two ears. I think that is a vocabulary change that is causing a lot of us to scratch our heads in confusion. Conventionally, "wireless headphone" has meant no wire to the device—no headphone cable and no 3.5mm con…

Yeah... My bad, agree on the terminology. I think a more appropriate way to refer to them would be 'wireless earbuds'. In that case, I would say anything connecting them would be cheating and taking away from the truly amazing feeling of having audio delivered to your ears with no connecting wires to get caught on things, pull, vibrate when turning your head etc etc.

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Post by baddox »

1_2__3 wrote: post #104
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.

There's marketing copy, and then there's throw-up-a-little-in-your-mouth marketing copy. This is the latter.

I didn't throw up in my mouth, so that part seems to be subjective.

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Post by cfstras »

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.

In 1/10 cases, it takes me over 20 seconds to unlock my phone. The new "click twice to unlock" feature combined with apparently hard-to-detect fingerprints is really annoying.

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Post by dhimes »

j2bax wrote: post #163
Avshalom wrote: post #118

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Right, this isn't a world class entry into a nascent market. This is a pair of fucking headphones. A pair of headphones a month later than they should be that look exactly like their old headphones

Actually it is a bit more than "a pair of fucking headphones". As someone who spends a lot of time throughout the day listening to music, and finds Apple's Earpods to be some of the most comfortable nice sounding headphones I have owned, I'm rather excited about some innovation being done around this space. A few features that make them new/innovative: • Smart switching between multiple devices logged into iCloud. Yo…

I have nil fashion sense, but I think the single-ear Lt. Ohura look is much better than headphones with the wires hanging. But I only like them for voice conversations.

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Post by codezero »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #274

Has anybody got standard bluetooth headphones and found a way to reliably use them on multiple Apple devices? Mine are usually paired to my phone, and it's just not worth the hassle of unpairing and pairing repeatedly until the Macbook picks them up as unpaired and lets me try to pair with them, which works about half the time. Maybe my Macbook's bluetooth is just broken.. This is kinda disappointing though because I…

Most I've used (including Jambox) include a built-in "pair" toggle which will cycle them through devices with a single button press.

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Post by Terretta »

FireBeyond wrote: post #168
j2bax wrote: post #163

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Actually it is a bit more than "a pair of fucking headphones". As someone who spends a lot of time throughout the day listening to music, and finds Apple's Earpods to be some of the most comfortable nice sounding headphones I have owned, I'm rather excited about some innovation being done around this space. A few features that make them new/innovative: • Smart switching between multiple devices logged into iCloud. Yo…

Carrying case - Plantronics and others would like to discuss "new/innovative": http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/voyager-legend-case (I know that this product is not specifically music-oriented, but the operation principle is there still).

I own that. It's not these.
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