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I think Apple needs to add a few younger people to their executive team, because it seams they no longer can even pretend to be exited during the presentation.
Didn't have one since Steve Jobs died.
Meanwhile, just a decade or so ago most phones had camera bulges, edge bulges, antennas that stretched out from the body, were 3-4 times the thickness, etc.
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It's in the exact same price range as comparable wireless earbuds, like the Jaybird X2 You're just comparing them to shitty wired $5 chinese earbuds from Amazon in your head. $160 isn't even expensive for earbuds in general, more like lower mid-range.
But the Jaybird are attached to each other so you don't loose them that easily and they work on any phone. Do the Apple wireless AirPods work on any phone? or only devices that pay the W1 licensing fee?
I'm guessing they're using standard bluetooth if paired with something standard, but use something Apple-proprietary when pairing and listening when possible. (NFC-like operation and their own audio codecs on top of bluetooth)
everyone: "This does not perfectly fit my current unique use case, so damn it to hell"
It's official, Apple is basically resorting to nickle and diming their customers, except instead of nickles and dimes, it's $160 to achieve very basic functionality in order to achieve something that virtually nobody really honestly cares about. All that's been achieved is that Apple has now created/affirmed a new non-optional secondary market that they're now positioned to best sell into (Beats). There's not even th…
The size, performance, battery life and construction of the wireless earpods are anything but "basic". In fact, most run-of-the-mill competitors are at the same price or more for wireless earbuds.
>There's not even the decency to see if people care about a thinner phone by offering both a thin model without a jack and a thicker phone with one (for some strategically important price differential).
The "decency" of not having a focus and vision as a company, and throwing stuff out to see what sticks?
>All that's been achieved is that Apple has now created/affirmed a new non-optional secondary market
You know you can use all other brands of wireless (and wired with either the adapter or with lighting) headphones, including all your older headphones, right?
>But honestly, complaints and analysis don't matter, people will line up to buy this garbage
So, people buy it, but it's still "garbage" because you say so?
>and they don't even have the respect for their customers to ship their stupid buds on time with the product that requires them...
The "respect" to magically fix the production slowdowns? Maybe ask the Chinese to whip and beat their workers more or over-clock the assembly line robots?
Or the "respect" to delay the release of the phone for 2+ weeks, so that those interested in those specific wireless buds (a small percentage of the overall iphone buyers) get them simultaneously with the phone?
Even the starting premise is wrong. Nothing "requires" them. You can use your old, non wireless buds, third party wireless buds, new non wireless headphones, and even third party Lighting headphones. Apple's new wireless earpods are just one option upon hundreds.
>so that their customers can look like bluetooth douchebags from both sides.
Maybe you have some anger issues, but Apple doesn't seem to be the real source...
I won't be buying the new iPhone but I thinks removing the headphone jack seems like an extremely small problem. The main issue seems to be that you now can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that? In the past 5 years I have probably done that once. For those of you who do think it is an inconvenience, I bet there will be a product on the market in 2 weeks that eliminates this…
> You can't charge and listen to music at the same time. How often do you actually do that? My two use cases that I expect are pretty common: 1. In the car, plugged in to charge since using GPS navigation drains the battery very fast, and car audio input is AUX only. 2. Phone on the nightstand, plugged to overnight charge and I go to sleep listening to podcasts or music on headphones to avoid disturbing my partner. I…
Lots of times. Me and anyone that takes medium to long trips in their cars and and uses GPS navigation while charging and listening to music like basically all people that use smartphone do.
I still can't get over the headphone jack. Apple does have a good record of abandoning technologies at the right time (floppies, CDs, Flash, etc) but the biggest difference is that those technologies were all on the downward slope of their popularity when Apple made the move and all had solid replacements available at the time. The headphone jack is just as popular today as it has ever been and it is still more conve…
Upgrade to iPhone 7 with Apple Plug.
Great, now they have a phone with double camera wart and no jack. Also what's up with Apple being so obsessed about pictures? I know you want to have the nude selfie in the toilet to be the best as possible, but come on! And everything revolves around fitness. People wont get up from their bum, just because their watch tells them to. And the other who already do fitness don't need a watch to tell them how fit they ar…
> Also what's up with Apple being so obsessed about pictures? It's a very, very, very common and important use case for the phone. The iPhone has been for many years the "most popular camera in the world" according to pretty much any metric and any website (Flickr, Instagram, you name it). They can't keep substantially improving how well it makes phone calls, only tiny incremental improvements happen in that field, b…
I'm not saying they're not adding or upgrading other features, but it really feels like the biggest selling point is the camera now.
Like last year trying to sell 3 second videos as live photos.
Confused about what earphones come with the iPhone 7. The standard analog ones (since an adapter is included)? Feels very backwards... unless I'm missing something... Also, no new MBP is very disappointing.
Digital wired headphones come with it. There is an adapter for analog.
Great, now they have a phone with double camera wart and no jack. Also what's up with Apple being so obsessed about pictures? I know you want to have the nude selfie in the toilet to be the best as possible, but come on! And everything revolves around fitness. People wont get up from their bum, just because their watch tells them to. And the other who already do fitness don't need a watch to tell them how fit they ar…
There isn't really much innovation in the iPhone 7, it's just the next iteration of the models before it. It just doesn't sell that many phone telling people: Yeah it's a little fast, so if you feel that your phone fast enough, maybe don't buy it.