I'll probably upgrade to the 2nd generation.
The AirPods Pro were, for me, the first time in many years that the boundary of tech and magic were blurred. I have a air purifier in my room. I put the Airpods on for the first time, and somehow they turned off my air purifier. Sort of freaked me out :)
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#402Earlier quoted context omitted.
This might be because each were sold with the old firmware (better noise cancellation), and eventually got updated to the new firmware (better battery).
I've had this happen three times now in 2.5 years. The first symptom is that the noise cancellation gets worse. Some months after that, you start hearing a crackling sound, particularly while speaking, or if you adjust the airpod in your ear. I believe what is happening is that earwax is building up in the grille on the top inside of the airpod which houses a microphone. As the sound from this microphone gets more di…
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I've had mine for 9 months and just started hearing the crackling noise. I didn't know this was a widespread issue or that Apple addresses it so easily. Fingers crossed...
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#403It's wild how much money Apple has made from Bluetooth headphones that don't suck. That's literally it. They're portable, pair easily and (somewhat) work with multiple devices. I have top of the line Bose Bluetooth headphones that still, in 2022, have issues with multiple devices. I can't count how many times I've started playing music on my iPhone only to realize that the headphones think my laptop is playing, so th…
I think you’re talking about the QC 35 ii/45. The same switch you use to turn them on can be used to switch devices. Press it once, and the voice prompt will say what it is currently connected to. Keep pressing it and it’ll start listing other previously connected devices each time you press it. Once it says “hardwaregeeks iPhone” stop clicking the switch and it’ll switch to that. It’s actually pretty intuitive once…
Yeah, I've used a lot of headphones (Sony, Microsoft, Sennheiser, Bose), and honestly the Bose are some of the better one. Also love the hardware buttons, touch ones are always a PITA. Every time I go to double tap to go forward, it registers 1 tap and pauses, so I have to tap again to unpause, and double tap again. They also act out in the winter cold.
Bose also connects blazingly fast, which is nice.
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#404It's wild how much money Apple has made from Bluetooth headphones that don't suck. That's literally it. They're portable, pair easily and (somewhat) work with multiple devices. I have top of the line Bose Bluetooth headphones that still, in 2022, have issues with multiple devices. I can't count how many times I've started playing music on my iPhone only to realize that the headphones think my laptop is playing, so th…
They also don’t do this: “BEEP. CONNECTED. BATTERY LEVEL IS 50%.”
Most of headphones have a setting to turn off those.
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#405It's wild how much money Apple has made from Bluetooth headphones that don't suck. That's literally it. They're portable, pair easily and (somewhat) work with multiple devices. I have top of the line Bose Bluetooth headphones that still, in 2022, have issues with multiple devices. I can't count how many times I've started playing music on my iPhone only to realize that the headphones think my laptop is playing, so th…
They also are the first wireless headphones that constantly don't fall out of my ear, or go bad quickly when exposed to sweat. Game changer.
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#406Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess "don't suck" is relative, but my AirPods failed after about a year. It's a coin toss now whether their microphone will work or not, rendering them unreliable and worse than useless for the work Zoom meetings I bought them for. Maybe I'm old-fashioned for expecting any piece of technology to last longer than a year.
This is my complaint as well. On multiple pairs, the microphone becomes unreliable after some number of months. If I'm lucky, it's within the warranty period.
The mic is pretty bad anyway.
And to add insult to injury, your listening audio quality also gets degraded whenever it's on... So it's a lose-lose for both sides every time you use it.
My main complaint is that OSX has no setting to completely disable it. I have to manually switch to the Macbook internal mic basically before every call.
I wish they would just sell a model without the crappy mic. I would even happily pay less for it.
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#407I would love to buy AirPods one day, but I have just had too many experiences telling someone on Zoom they sound like they’re under water, and they say, “hold on a sec that’s my AirPods.” If Apple could fix that issue, this would be a nice product! Unfortunately I don’t know how Apple could ever signal to me that they had fixed that issue.
Lots of people actually just have broken AirPods and the gen 1 Pro's in particular seem to have a lot of extremely common faults that surface. Like the mics just being completely blown out and crackling as people speak, even see it happening to people on the news who are using them.
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#408> Always-on “Hey Siri”
i've been turning off Siri because the inaccuracies really bother me... any one use them on a daily basis other than for setting kitchen timers?
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is Apple’s strength in general. Much easier for older folks to use.
Not even older folks. The technologically exhausted, too. I write code for a living and hack on hardware as a hobby. When I go on a walk or just want to chill out, I absolutely love when this kind of stuff just works. I will (and do) pay a massive premium for that. Major respect to the developers, it's obviously a feat. The haters can go recompile gentoo :)
Haters will continue to push the overton window back towards freedom. Your welcome.
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#410I love my AirPod Pros, but I hate how unreliable charging in the case is. The AirPods will often think they are out of the case, when they are, and discharge themselves, while connected to my phone/laptop. Then they will re-charge, emptying the battery in the case, so I will end up with a dead pair of AirPods after a couple of days in the pocket, not using them. I guess their tolerances are too tight, hopefully somet…
The fix is to clean the stems with alcohol. That will get rid of the corrosion building on the contacts.
Also, as a preventative measure, before putting them in the case, make absolutely sure they are dry.
As a runner, mine tend to get sweaty and if I put them in the case with even just a hint of salty sweat on them, the current flowing through the connector will corrode it very quickly, necessitating the cleaning next time.