I didn't know CT scans could be that accurate. Impressive really when you see the size of the (moving) machine !
CT scans of AirPods evolution
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#72Wow, it’s the first time I’ve seen this site and format but what a great way to explain electronics and design.
I'm really surprised about the (thus-far) universal acclaim of the design. There's usually a lot of knee-jerk reaction against fancy browser effects like parallax and scroll-jacking in this crowd. I think this implementation is mostly excellent, but as a web craftsmen, it would have been a fun/entertaining challenge to make a good non-javascript implementation underneath.
most of the reaction against scrolljacking is because when the content of the site is text, we have expectations about how it should behave and we know how we want to interact with it, so we get angry when we can't.
when the content is 3D renders, most people have no strong expectations about how the controls should work and aren't going to have a negative reaction as long as the implementation works well.
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#73So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated them.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the weirdest product to complain about this for. For something so small, replaceable battery hardware would double the size of the thing from the battery connectors alone.
Yeah it just doesn't make sense to be upset at airpods here. The airpods are smaller than the AA batteries which are often just disposable after a single use.
But I'm pretty sure Samsung Buds (perhaps the first gen?) use some sort of standard battery.
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#75I think this might be the first and only instance I've ever seen of a non-traditional scrolling experience actually being a benefit to a website
I agree. I was able to scroll back up easily to see specific parts without some acceleration taking over.
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#76So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated them.
It does. But it's not about that. It's about being able to get rid of wires and associated mess.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
PodSwap seem to have worked it out. https://www.thepodswap.com/
How? This seems only for people with good batteries that want to upgrade. There's no new pods with good batteries being added if it's just swapping.
There's no upgrade. You swap your Airpods for another set that has had the battery replaced.
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#78So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated them.
There’s a huge value in not having to untangle wires every time you use headphones even if there is a hit to sound quality.
Also having the ability to use one earbud without having the weight of the cable tugging at your ear is underrated.
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#79> Apple was not the first company to develop wireless earbuds, but they’ve defined the category since introducing AirPods in 2016.
Sigh.
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#80So do airpods actually sound better than the standard wired headphones? If they don't, this is a lot of fancy engineering for some pretty bad headphones. Maybe they just didn't fit my ears or something, but I've always hated them.
It does. But it's not about that. It's about being able to get rid of wires and associated mess.
Are wires a mess? Looking at the Zoom calls I've been on, I've never heard "oh sorry I'm all tangled up in my wires", but have seen "my batteries are dead" or "my headphones won't pair with my computer", etc. (I say "seen" because you don't hear much from people debugging their "magic" wireless headphones.) This has added up to many person-hours of delays, while the wires just keep working.