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AirPods don't “just work”

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Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

CRConrad wrote: post #960
wtetzner wrote: post #476

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not technically stopped, you just have to pay extra money to get an adapter, with the additional downside that you can no longer charge the phone while using those headphones.

> get an adapter, with the additional downside that you can no longer charge the phone while using those headphones. Shouldn't such an adapter have a female USB-C connector and pass that through to the male one, with the headphone jack being branched off? Do those not exist, or are they prohibitively expensive? Did the Apple "dongle" mentioned in sibling comments do it that way? (Sure oughta, IMO.)

The official Apple one, at least, does not do that. I don’t know if there are others which do.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by neycoda »

I don't have these issues with $8 wired earbuds. Manufacturers are removing headphone jacks from mobile devices, causing us to buy expensive buggy Bluetooth ones that are easier to lose. Our world is getting dumber every year.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by SpelingBeeChamp »

greazy wrote: post #959
SpelingBeeChamp wrote: post #932

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Any time I search the internet for a solution to a problem with an Apple product or device, I intentionally exclude discussions.apple.com domains from my search results. I have never found a solution there, and the forums seem to be dominated — and I mean DOMINATED — by two or three ‘experts’ whose bottom-line is that Apple’s products work, so you must be doing something wrong. One guy is convinced that uninstalling…

> The only solution is to reinstall macOS and never do that again! Fuck the apple forums, they are usefulness. I'd like to add another type: return to apple for repairs alongside the 'reinstall os'. There's gotta be a better answer than reinstalling the os! That's a nuclear option that should be a last resort. But it's recommended all the time.

Reinstalling macOS is no longer nuclear, in that it doesn’t materially touch your home folder.

Now it’s just a phenomenal waste of time.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by mcronce »

ziml77 wrote: post #378
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #205

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Well, you had to pay more for better headphones with better cables. But wireless headphones are expensive anyway. (And have non-replaceable batteries which will also permanently die after a couple years.)

The best cables still break when they're moving a lot. The important thing is for the headphones to have replaceable cables. But only the high-end headphones and earbuds have that feature.

I mentioned this elsewhere, but I've never had a headphone cable fail. Including a cheap pair of airport earbuds that were used weekly for air travel (tightly wrapped, basically a worst case scenario for cable strain) for multiple years, and the detachable cable that sees daily use on my 598Cs.

And I can buy a lot of $17 wired earbuds for the price of one set of AirPods. At my rate of failure, literally a lifetime supply.

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by CRConrad »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #961
CRConrad wrote: post #960

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> get an adapter, with the additional downside that you can no longer charge the phone while using those headphones. Shouldn't such an adapter have a female USB-C connector and pass that through to the male one, with the headphone jack being branched off? Do those not exist, or are they prohibitively expensive? Did the Apple "dongle" mentioned in sibling comments do it that way? (Sure oughta, IMO.)

The official Apple one, at least, does not do that. I don’t know if there are others which do.

Then one would think someone else has exploited such an obvious(?) market opportunity. (BTW, I deliberately didn't write "with a T-branch for the audio jack" or similar, because the stem of the T should obviously be the male USB-C going up into the phone, so the audio and the incoming USB-C go out to the sides. Then you can still stand the phone upright on top of them.)

Re: AirPods don't “just work”

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Post by pritambaral »

openknot wrote: post #591
pritambaral wrote: post #522

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> ... that widely improves wired compatibility. "Wired compatibility" was ubiquitous before. It didn't have room to "improve". Removing the jack is what broke "wired compatibility". Needing a dongle for sth is not an "improved" form of using it, when you could have just used it without a dongle.

Adding a small adapter to where you carry your wired headphones fixes the problem of the current reality where many devices do not have audio jacks. My assertion is to provide a practical solution to the current state of affairs, instead of claiming that the present is better than the past state of affairs (where there were ubiquitous audio jacks) due to audio adapters. Due to forces beyond the individual's control,…

That's entirely besides the point.
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