AirPods don't “just work”
philip.design
AirPods don't “just work”
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Re: AirPods don't “just work”
#2Good to hear the gripes with AirPods are identical to my $80 earpods, nothing missed out on in other words :-).
Edit: I have a pair of JBL LIVE300TWS. They're good!
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#3Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pong" low-battery noise, right in my ear, without warning.
And it's Apple, so of course you can't turn it off.
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#4Apple stuff "just works" until it doesn't. As much as a fan I am of Apple, the lack of feedback when things stop working is absolutely infuriating.
Re: AirPods don't “just work”
#5Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pong" low-battery noise, right in my ear, without warning. And it's Apple, so of course you can't turn it off.
You'd be no better off with a Sony Headphone that screams in your ear that a device connected, the device is turned on and the battery is almost empty. The flagship Sony headphone is so bug ridden it's a joke if you ask me.
Re: AirPods don't “just work”
#6Good to hear the gripes with AirPods are identical to my $80 earpods, nothing missed out on in other words :-). Edit: I have a pair of JBL LIVE300TWS. They're good!
Or my $30 ones...
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#7my personal complaint: sometimes the left earpod doesn’t boot
both are fully charged, but when i put them into ears, only the right one actually connects
i have to put the left one back into the case and take it out again to get it to connect
i assume this is a software issue
Re: AirPods don't “just work”
#8Good to hear the gripes with AirPods are identical to my $80 earpods, nothing missed out on in other words :-). Edit: I have a pair of JBL LIVE300TWS. They're good!
I had the same thought. These issues might just be issues with bluetooth in general, and not much apple can do about it.
Re: AirPods don't “just work”
#9Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pong" low-battery noise, right in my ear, without warning. And it's Apple, so of course you can't turn it off.
I had JBL earphones and they had exactly the same problem. Also couldn't turn it off. Extremely annoying.
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#10Apple stuff "just works" until it doesn't. As much as a fan I am of Apple, the lack of feedback when things stop working is absolutely infuriating.
Had Music.app completely hose my entire data plan last month because it was downloading about 12 albums I had in “Downloaded Music” then deleting them then downloading them over and over last month.
Not to mention Apple Music keeps turning itself back on when I turn it off.
All impossible to diagnose why and the only advice is reset and delete everything and start over.