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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

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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.

Also as much as I hate the Apple watch I feel like tons of runner assholes are gonna want one.

I'm totally down with the 7+. apple is not going anywhere, don't really care they got rid of the headphone jack glad they are including a free dongle tho.

wow only "Up to 1 hour longer battery life than iPhone 6s Plus" for the 7+ that's hella weak

Batteries are fundamentally hard and the gains in battery life at any given size are gonna be mostly about squeezing more power efficiency out of the cores.

right right, still weak tho

the worst thing about the iphone is the airpods' 5 hour battery life

imagine having to use them on a plane. you have to account for actually getting to the airport and waiting to get on the plane, etc, that will probably leave you with 50% battery left. i don't think many people will jump on a plane with freshly charged batteries or new ones

well you don't have to use airpods at all. You still have the alternative of (1) some beats bullshit, lol, (2) lightning earpods (3) the dongle (annoying but it's free), or (4) presumably regular old Bluetooth headphones. So no one is going to buy the airpods but it's not so bad for the phone.

i say rip apple in jest, they arent going anywhere, headphone jack thing blows though

but anyway this company is annoying imo

still better than alternatives i admit

http://i.imgur.com/Ji1hcp7.jpg

haha otm

kind of OTM but i also think he may be serious

wireless earbuds are a prestige thing. if you don't believe that, look at the price?