| ▲ | peacebeard 16 hours ago |
| I never got on board with wireless headphones. * Having to charge them is a PITA * Having to pair them is a PITA * Having more points of failure is a PITA * Paying more is a PITA On the other hand: * Wires are fine |
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| ▲ | xnyan 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Counterpoint: wires really suck and are not fine. AirPods Pro are great, I can afford them and they improve my quality of like quite a bit. Different strokes I guess. |
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| ▲ | phrotoma 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Some years ago I commuted to work by subway in a city that had turnstiles at all transit stops. Having earbuds unceremoneously ripped out of my ears by spinning metal arms sent me straight to bluetooth and I have never looked back. Wires suck. | |
| ▲ | reg_dunlop 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | counter counterpoint: A wire sitting on a table does not suck.
2 people can gather around that table and still, the wire does not suck.
As soon as 1 person picks up the wire and starts doing something with it....now an interaction with a wire sucks. But that's not the wire's fault. | | |
| ▲ | gruez 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | >now an interaction with a wire sucks. >But that's not the wire's fault. So... "it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden deceleration"? | | |
| ▲ | reg_dunlop 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I believe that's a straw man fallacy. My assertion is that an inanimate object becomes a problem when a human interacts with it. Your attempted logical argument is that a law of nature is the same as an inanimate object. I am not contesting that an inanimate object is the same as gravity. I'm saying that humans make bad decisions with simple things and whine about inanimate objects and that's a very real first world problem. |
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| ▲ | nkko 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | was listening to music while coming with groceries and simultaneously juggling stuff to open the doors and change the track with Siri (the only use for Siri I have) |
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| ▲ | gzread 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's hard to lose one or both of your wired earphones. |
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| ▲ | stbtrax 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| yeah I don't have this issue with airpods pro. charge them maybe every other week and never had issues pairing. The case charge should last for ~30-40 hrs of listening.
The auto switching between laptop and phone is pretty great too for taking calls or walking away and not having to fiddle around with repairing |
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| ▲ | cmcaleer 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Agree they’re great but it does fascinate me when there are weird edge cases that Apple mess up. For example if I have my phone and laptop running, and I’m listening to something on my phone, I pause with my AirPods, and then I unpause with my AirPods, instead of what was playing on my phone resuming through my AirPods, a video that I’ll have forgotten about will instead play through my laptop speakers, and pressing pause on my AirPods will do nothing and I have to interrupt whatever I’m doing to pause on the laptop. Possible they’ve fixed this specific issue though since I’ve learned to not have anything that has media controls open on my laptop. The cross platform control stuff is probably very hard and usually works though. |
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| ▲ | gruez 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >* Having to charge them is a PITA The equivalent PTIA for wired would be having to untangle them everytime you want to use them. >* Having to pair them is a PITA How many devices do you have that this is an issue? This is an issue that pops up a few times a year, at most. >* Having more points of failure is a PITA It's unclear which has more PoF. Wires can break, not to mention randomly catch on stuff and sending your phone flying. |
