I still use 3.5mm jack stuff, but I find Bluetooth buds less alien looking than the earpods. There's single bud stuff too, though bad for music of course
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
lmao
Two years ago, Desmond Hughes heard so many of his favorite podcasters extolling AirPods, Apple’s tiny, futuristic $170 wireless headphones, that he decided they were worth the splurge. He quickly became a convert.Hughes is still listening to podcasters talk about their AirPods, but now they’re complaining. The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in January, detailing how he frequently hears a low-battery warning in his AirPods now. Earlier this month, Apple Insider tested a pair of AirPods purchased in 2016 against a pair from 2018, and found that the older pair died after two hours and 16 minutes. “That’s less than half the stated battery life for a new pair,” the writer William Gallagher concluded.Hughes, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Virginia, has noticed a similar thing about his own set: At first, their charge lasted five hours, but now they sometimes last only half an hour. He frequently listens to one while charging the other—not optimal conditions for expensive headphones. He’s now gearing up to plunk down more money on another pair. “I just wish they would increase the battery life,” he told me.
Hughes is still listening to podcasters talk about their AirPods, but now they’re complaining. The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say, rendering them functionally useless. Apple bloggers agree: “AirPods are starting to show their age for early adopters,” Zac Hall, an editor at 9to5Mac, wrote in a post in January, detailing how he frequently hears a low-battery warning in his AirPods now. Earlier this month, Apple Insider tested a pair of AirPods purchased in 2016 against a pair from 2018, and found that the older pair died after two hours and 16 minutes. “That’s less than half the stated battery life for a new pair,” the writer William Gallagher concluded.
Hughes, who is 35 and lives in Newport News, Virginia, has noticed a similar thing about his own set: At first, their charge lasted five hours, but now they sometimes last only half an hour. He frequently listens to one while charging the other—not optimal conditions for expensive headphones. He’s now gearing up to plunk down more money on another pair. “I just wish they would increase the battery life,” he told me.
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
oh yikes! I guess that's going to happen if they are your all-purpose thing! Battery tech was enough of a reason to leave the headphone jack alone.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Every time something new gets batteries we get a new story about how battery life degrades after many charging cycles.
Also “plunk”
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 25 March 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
the easy way around battery degradation is by making them replaceable
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
you got it. That's my top criteria for phones now. My last one was tricky... my current one, there's not even visible screws on the casing.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
podcasts are famously demanding of high-fidelity reproduction, who can fault this guy for plunking down $340 on earpods with no guarantee the second set's batteries will las any longer than the first's
― i'm w/ tato, super hot AND weird!! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Replacing the EarPods that you bought because of podcasts about EarPods with new EarPods to listen to podcasts about EarPods on. We’ve all been there.
― One Eye Open, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
from the same article quoted above:
Hughes told me that he and his girlfriend upgrade their iPhones every two years, as they do their iPad. “I guess we don’t keep our technology super long,” he told me. And why should he? Every few months, new tech products come out boasting substantial updates and better batteries. A German environmental agency found that the proportion of products sold to replace a defective appliance grew from 3.5 percent in 2004 to 8.3 percent in 2012.
These people are the worst
― silverfish, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
waht is all this extraneous shit
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
wow, this is all spectacular garbage
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
uh I guess hopefully the tv service is better than Directv Now?
i've got nothing here
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
unveiling your original video content with a bunch of celebrities, none of who are under the age of 40, is a thing
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
I HATE APPLE
― PaulDananVEVO (||||||||), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
just design a better laptop keyboard ffs
ooh wait we've got a 39 year old on the stage and it's Jason Momoa
lol
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
Did I notice Louis Ck in the pic onscreen?
― nathom, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Siri, show me dystopic 'happiness'
https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2019-03-25/f1553538462.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
Tim Cook says Apple has one more remarkable story to share.
"The Mueller report!"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
Is that big bird presenting on stage? Damn
― calstars, Monday, 25 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Apple credit card kind of feels like a big deal
― calstars, Monday, 25 March 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
I refuse to obtain any kind of credit card no matter the points or cash back involved, because I am not a sucker
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 25 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
that "look at all the famous people we got" slide is one of the most obnoxious things i have ever seen
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
that really was a dreadful keynote, huh
― stet, Monday, 25 March 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
but is also a physical card made out of titanium
xp embarrassingly bad, by the look of it
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
these guys are going to make a septillion dollars from all this horseshit tho
― shoulda zagged (esby), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
greed eh
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 25 March 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
this is the shit that happens when companies get too big and have no idea how the fuck to expand so they pick random markets that seem to be popular
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
should take themselves private tbh
― moose; squirrel (silby), Monday, 25 March 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
for real though, Disney needs to start making electronics so we can have a slugfest between them, Apple, Amazon, and AT&T
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
(That is not what I want and is a hell scenario)
btw the news+ thing appears to be the app Texture that they bought resurfacing as a tab in the news app
― mh, Monday, 25 March 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
AppazonT&D. Calling it.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 March 2019 23:18 (five years ago) link
Only Apple could come up with something as innovative and gamechanging as “human-curated news”. Can’t believe no one ever thought of that before tbh.
― One Eye Open, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 00:55 (five years ago) link
otm, until now all my news had been curated by hula hoops
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
got the chipmunks christmas song in my head now
― mh, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
still am embarrassing keynote though.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 07:22 (five years ago) link
Everyone needs to just stop buying all shit in general.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Easy for you to say but what am I supposed to put in my house if I stop buying shit
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:13 (five years ago) link
You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.
― nathom, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
xpost You buy a bunch of metal bowls. You can eat out of them, cook over a fire with them, make the fire in them, turn them upside down to sit on, watch water swirl in them...
― Yerac, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
so is the headphone jack coming back, yes or no
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
― nathom, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sounds familiar!
https://i.imgur.com/ohMI8vG.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 13:33 (five years ago) link
(but he's playing records!)
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
I bet they're just out for show.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
Is that 'Aja' in front of him?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
it is not
― lukas, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
― Yerac, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What is wrong with me that 4/5ths of this seem like perfectly reasonable advice? Like I have multiple times told my boyfriend, "You should just use that one metal bowl for everything."
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Yerac is only ever reasonable
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
otm
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
trying to figure out which 1/5 you weren't down with
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link