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Apple AirPods satisfaction at a remarkable 98% for customers

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Re: Apple AirPods satisfaction at a remarkable 98% for customers

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Post by MBCook »

derefr wrote: post #40
burke wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sad that Beats was the one headphone brand that Apple ended up purchasing when they wanted to expand that space. B&O felt like a natural synergy for them too. I would love to be able to buy better-sounding AirPods under an Apple/B&O label.

Apple didn't buy a headphone maker for expertise at making headphones that sound good. Apple Stores sell headphones from any number of brands—including B&O—so there's nothing to gain by making their own headphones more audiophile-friendly. They still make money off of other companies' audiophile-targeted headphones, without having to actually design and produce any. Instead, Apple bought the headphone maker whose pro…

There's a pretty good argument they bought Beats for the music service (and it's people and relationships), which they turned into/merged with Apple music. They seem to have left the headphone business alone (other than giving one kind of Beats have the same chipset that the AirPods have).

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Post by pklausler »

meursault334 wrote: post #32
pklausler wrote: post #26

My office has some really noisy people, so I wear my AirPods under a set of big ugly 3M ear protector 30dB earmuffs. Works great!

This is a case where these might actually make sense for me. I hadn't thought about the lack of cord making them more usable underneath hearing protection. Any experience with my number one reason not for buying them which is the fear of losing them?

All I can say is that I haven't lost mine.

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Post by primitivesuave »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #56
primitivesuave wrote: post #49

I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.

Search Amazon for Vojo rabbits.

Thank you for the suggestion, I just ordered a pair and will be ecstatic if this fixes the issue.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

primitivesuave wrote: post #49

I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.

I noticed my inter-tragic notch [1] is much lower and wider than it appears on my friends' ears. This is where Apple headphones "notch" in. Looking forward to seeing my parents next month so I may examine their auricles.

[1] http://featherforge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Ear-diagr...

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Post by primitivesuave »

ForrestN wrote: post #53
primitivesuave wrote: post #49

I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.

Mine have never fallen out, even when running or jumping or leaning over. Do apple's wired earbuds fall out of your ears? Seems like this varies by body.

That's a good point, I hadn't researched into this and it seems like there are solutions out there for ear shapes that don't conform well to Apple headphones.

https://appadvice.com/post/airpods-dont-fit/732275

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Post by minimaxir »

glhaynes wrote: post #69
minimaxir wrote: post #35

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If you have an Apple Watch, you can control audio/volume from there. (having the Now Playing complication helps too)

There's not a Now Playing complication, is there? I hope I'm just missing it somehow because it'd be my most used complication by a long shot.

Specifically, it's named the Music complication, but it remembers state and will restore the Now Playing UI if it was present.

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Post by pavel_lishin »

loxias wrote: post #61
pavel_lishin wrote: post #10

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I lose my headphones often enough that I balk at anything about $15. I'd probably be quite happy with the Airpods' quality... ... right until I dropped one onto the subway tracks.

> balk at anything about $15. Check out the Sennheiser HD 202! they're around 30 bucks last time I checked and great fidelity and durability for the price. edit: ok ok sorry you're right, $15 > $30 "heck, it's even twice as much!" i guess my point is that there are things that won't break the bank that sound way better than you'd expect, that's all. :) edit2: Oh, and i _ALSO_ frequently break or lose mine, that's why…

"I balk at anything above $15"

"You should buy this $30 pair!"

:)

I actually own a pair of Sennheiser HD 280's for when I'm at a desk, but they're not really appropriate for a commute; for that, I just have a cheap pair of JVC earbuds with a microphone/button.

I specifically buy them cheap because my hearing's not awesome anyway, and I don't really need excellent sound quality for listening to a podcast on the train, and I tend to wash a pair with the laundry or dip them into my coffee a few times a year, anyway.

edit: yep, you're right - but there are places where I need quality, and places where I need quantity :P

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Post by kemayo »

meursault334 wrote: post #57
kemayo wrote: post #11

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Speaking just for myself, it's two things: First, there's that Apple "it just works" whole-package experience. If you're bought into the Apple ecosystem, using macOS and iOS, it's really incredibly seamless and gets rid of all those bluetooth hassles. Plus, as you say, battery life is good enough that I've never personally run up against it. Second, and the part which surprised me to discover after I got mine, it tur…

Reading this I might actually buy these. I was pretty set against because of the fear of losing them. I've been annoyed on many occasions at not being able to use my lightning headphones with my Macbook Pro while traveling and I can see this being a superior option to any corded headphone solution. I use video chat a lot and using corded Apple headphones with a laptop is definitely awkward.

I had some worries about losing them, as well. These have proven to be unfounded over the last few months... though I haven't done anything intense while wearing them. In the course of my day to day life walking around, maybe occasional light running through the rain, they've never fallen out.

I did try some experimental jumping around and shaking my head wildly after I got them, and they didn't slip out from that.

I suspect a lot of this comes down to your ear shape. The fit of the wired EarPods are a decent proxy for how the AirPods will fit. The AirPods are less likely than the EarPods to fall out, because the wires aren't there tugging on them as you move your head, which turns out to be a useful difference.

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Post by loxias »

primitivesuave wrote: post #49

I can't get the damn things to stay in my ears if I'm doing any physical activity beyond brisk walking. Working out in them is out of the question, so I'm still using my regular bluetooth headphones, and I looked quite comical running to catch the train with both hands over my ears so they wouldn't fall out. I'm surprised only 1 out of every 50 people who bought Airpods are experiencing similar dissatisfaction.

I can't fit them in my ears either, I tried once and it hurt :(

The sad thing is, we have the technology to make Real Wireless Earbuds that DONT suck! It's a totally doable engineering project! That don't have horribly lossy encodings and the like. That feature neat things like symmetric pairing, graceful degrading of signal quality with bitrate, and that actually would fit in our ears! But no, fashion too often wins over substance...

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Post by derefr »

MBCook wrote: post #71
derefr wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple didn't buy a headphone maker for expertise at making headphones that sound good. Apple Stores sell headphones from any number of brands—including B&O—so there's nothing to gain by making their own headphones more audiophile-friendly. They still make money off of other companies' audiophile-targeted headphones, without having to actually design and produce any. Instead, Apple bought the headphone maker whose pro…

There's a pretty good argument they bought Beats for the music service (and it's people and relationships), which they turned into/merged with Apple music. They seem to have left the headphone business alone (other than giving one kind of Beats have the same chipset that the AirPods have).

> They seem to have left the headphone business alone

Well, why wouldn't they? Going by my argument, it was already being done "the way they would have done it."

It's like moving in with someone who already has the same cleaning habits that you do: you can just leave them alone and trust them to do the right thing, and then be happy with the results.

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