New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

One thing wires do is keep you from losing your shit. Hope replacement EarHolePods are cheap.

hahahaha 5 hours

Do like the sound of the one-touch set-up across all devices. The kind of thing Apple used to impress with.

We've had three different iPads in my house and I pretty much never use them. There is virtually no task that doesn't make more sense to do either on my phone or on my laptop.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 18:17 (twelve minutes ago) Permalink

i do ~a third of my reading on an iPad and take it on trips (bigger screen nicer for maps, googling somewhere to eat nearby) but otherwise yeah kind of a weird product. the one i have is so slow though it's useless for anything else

Ohhhhh I see you have to buy the beats bullshit to get usable headphones. The camera had me leaning toward an iphone but this shit is pissing me off.

agree the one-touch setup is smart though, xp

no mention of bluetooth, hrrm

proprietary?

We've had three different iPads in my house and I pretty much never use them. There is virtually no task that doesn't make more sense to do either on my phone or on my laptop.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 7 September 2016 18:17 (twelve minutes ago) Permalink

i use my ipad for seamless and that's literally it

dude bluetooth still works btw

airpod designers obviously do not have kids

if they work on macs and ipads then it's using bluetooth chips presumably with some bells and whistles in the protocol to obviate pairing

hmm possibly

I haven't kept up, but the main complaint was people thinking the codecs apple supported were too lossy and aptX or w/e was better, but apple wasn't supporting that. it's possible they're using bluetooth and their own lossless codec or something

hahahaha 5 hours

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, September 7, 2016 11:33 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm so glad they chose to soft transition us into airpods (not liking apple's proprietary streak but it is what it is)

i'm pretty much content and will prob buy one unless some major crappy feature is announced

one thing I will say is that this is a much more interesting launch than the 6, which was basically "It's really thin!"

(and bigger)

So there's pretty much not going to be a way to charge while using wired headphones, right?

if they work on macs and ipads then it's using bluetooth chips presumably with some bells and whistles in the protocol to obviate pairing

If they're anything like the Bragi Dash buds they use Bluetooth to connect to device but near-field magnetic induction (NFMI) to connect to each other.

400 flying monkeys!

The headphone jack thing really does annoy me. The adapter seems clumsy and easy to lose. I don't want to buy new lightning headphones, I have no interest in using wireless headphones, and I definitely am not going in for earpods or garbage-ass Beats proprietary headphones.

man alive i love to follow along with your internal monologue!

And I'm definitely not relying on the earbuds they provide.

liveblogging my tortured relationship with the iPhone

Like how do you connect the Beats to any other source? macs? Do they have a cable slot? Fuck buying dedicated phone headphones

they connect wireless presumably over bluetooth stet

just use the adaptor

Why are we not talking about schiller's muffintop is that on the menswear thread or?

one apple thing i've never cared for is the ipad -- but i totally don't get tablets at all

Counterpoints: making music with an iPad

just use the adaptor

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, September 7, 2016 1:45 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the adapter will either be lost or forgotten at home

From 2007: https://www.engadget.com/2007/06/30/iphone-doesnt-work-with-most-3rd-party-headphones/

increased storage at same price suggests to me they're not getting as much icloud traction as they'd like

if they woulda kept it 16 at the base that would have been the worst mistake apple had ever made.

wait wtf was the price on the airpods

32 is still super embarrassing imo

did they just skim past it at lightspeed because they cost a shitload

sia right

$159 bucks for tinny 5 hour earbuds that won't work with anything else lololol

wear your children

the airpods will work macs and ipads

5 hours and a dental floss case though

jesus Christ no one is going to buy these fucking airpods

wow that is super pricey

airduds

i was thinking they would like $59-$69 and I was still going to complain that's too much.

rip apple

My current hypothesis is that the phone hardware including EarPods is all a profitable R&D operation for chip design for the next platform. Every new thing they do involves new modules on the A-series or a new standalone chip in a new and more miniature and power-efficient package. Apple will make some people mad with the no headphone jack but they'll make another few tens of billions of dollars when the chip work all pays off.

lol at 5 hrs

iPad is perfect for annotating PDFs which is my profession atm

so IDGI, are they only going to update the iPhone mini every other year?

Sounds like a good bet.

all you do is annotate pdfs? are you a contract analyst or something?

im a paralegal all I do is make pdfs.

I'm on the fence personally. I can totally imagine though that in the next few years plenty of people, especially younger folks, will be fine with abandoning the analog jack, so I'm not exactly gonna call RIP Apple on this one. And I doubt it hurts them that much if they don't sell a ton of Airpods.