Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
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Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#2Very interesting. If true Apple's hope to keep this quiet is completely in vain.
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#3A better link directly to the rumor: https://old.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/yfc5xw/airpods_max...
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#4Wouldn't be the first time that Apple is nerfing perfectly well-working hardware.
I never thought about Airpod updates, but according to their site they are applied automatically if you're in the vicinity of an iPhone/iPad/Mac and they're being charged. Does anyone know more details about it / how to prevent updates? Do you need to keep them away from Apple devices while charging? Does it matter whether they're paired via Bluetooth?
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#5Very interesting. If true Apple's hope to keep this quiet is completely in vain.
Although, reducing the signal to noise ratio may help muting the message...
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#6Very interesting. If true Apple's hope to keep this quiet is completely in vain.
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Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#7Extremely misleading title: A review site measured slightly worse noise cancellation performance after a firmware update. Nothing is being "replaced" (with what?), as far as I can tell.
And is the source for this being due to patent lawsuits seriously a speculative Reddit comment?
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#8Can Jawbone (or the troll) keep the patent private if it was funded by DARPA / public taxes ?
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#9Extremely misleading title: A review site measured slightly worse noise cancellation performance after a firmware update. Nothing is being "replaced" (with what?), as far as I can tell. And is the source for this being due to patent lawsuits seriously a speculative Reddit comment?
They changed something within the ANC codebase, they confirmed as much. It's also not disputed that it's of a different / lower quality than before (if you can tell or not is up for debate).
The APM already have issues with reliability as is so i'm sure this is only bound to make people more upset.
Re: Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
#10Hard to say anything meaningful without knowing more about the state-of-the-art in noise cancellation algorithims.
Which I imagine involves a lot of closely guarded secrets.