Apple AirPods

“Why oh why every few weeks, when she gets the AirPods from their case, do they automatically connect to my iPhone and steal the audio”

“I've owned and tried some very high quality IEMs and still to this day impressed by the AirPods' audio quality and convenience.”

“airpod comes with whole set of features, like transparent switching between devices, or Find My network”

“The sound quality from someone speaking via their MacBook microphone is noticeably worse than someone speaking via their AirPods microphone.”

“they supposedly won't be able to take "pictures" and "video" but will transmit essentially the same information for AI/Siri”

“this is horrible. Even if Apple says they remain private on private cloud with private AI ... it's still someone recording everything at all times.”

“AirPods are the only wireless headphones with which you can use the mic without having to suffer from horrible audio playback”

“there's not any other company selling wireless noise-cancelling earbuds with these features _and_ including documentation”

“they do sound better than generic cheap Bluetooth earbuds, but the Bluetooth connection is still the bottleneck”

“They now chirp at me loudly every time I pick them up, automatically try to connect to her phone etc, and I cannot unregister them from her account.”

“AirPods are my workhorse. I haven't found anything as comfortable with as good a battery life and as good fidelity and as good price.”

“There was some problem with the first gen that you would hear static, Apple replaced those if you contacted support.”

“AirPods have outstanding noise transparency capabilities, speech can get muddied depending on the environment”

“It works especially well when switching between devices, from iPhone to iPad to Mac and so on.”

“they still work worse than a $35 pair of Ankers when it comes to just connecting, staying connected”

“The Airpods helped distract and sedate my midnight thoughts such that I would fall back asleep much quicker”

“How is having to manually reconnect each time when switching between, say, an IPhone and a Windows laptop every time fine or even remotely seamless?”

“People are whole-experience buyers, not single-feature buyers, and the experience people want is the magical 'I put it in and it works' experience.”

“They make more than most SaaS decacorns. How can you not credit that as a massive success that came out of nowhere?”

“AirPods on Windows/Android to disastrous aka ever tried to transfer files from an Android phone to a Mac”

“A pair of Apple AirPods can be as enjoyable as two $10K speakers powered by a separate stack costing $20K”

“It’s exactly that factor of being able to get up and walk around without a thought that does it.”

“AirPods seem pretty nice; but if you use them primarily with Android and connect them to Find My, they will claim to be lost all the time.”

“They basically work great. I can't change settings on them, but I haven't done that since I set them up.”

“That just work. I know it sounds simple but if you have been burned by Bluetooth devices before again and again get unburned by AirPods.”

“AirPods, a Logitech webcam, and desktop sharing (5K ultrawide scaled at 125%) would just work”

“they are doing proprietary handoffs between their own devices, multipoint pairing is not implemented for Airpods outside of macOS and iOS”

“I want AirPods to be undeniably the best experience for me because I am fully locked into the Apple ecosystem”

“Hank Green mentioned in passing the other day how ungodly much money Apple is making off of airpods. I still have managed not to get one.”

“expensive for what they are, thoughtfully designed, and conservative in their approach to adopting new trends”

“Apple released ear buds that implement poorly defined parts of the spec but otherwise work with third party bluetooth devices”

“There is nothing technically preventing Apple from achieving this, aside from Apple's arguably illegal tying behavior.”

“They support HFP and A2DP and AVRCP, and properly, including all of those features working on android phones”

“It's not AirPods being closed that's unfair. Apple should be able to sell first party tech that only works with their own products.”

“They don't function as a regular bt headphone. They don't even report battery life among other artificially blocked basic functions.”

“I've had multiple instances of Airpods stopping to connect with phones until I charged them at least once with original Apple cables.”

“I imagine limiting such features to Apple devices is more about incentivizing the Apple Ecosystem than quality or software concerns”

“I've had almost all of the versions of AirPods and AirPod Pros and they have connected to non-Apple devices just fine.”

“They don't report battery status to non-Apple devices. This is a pretty basic feature and without this I wouldn't consider them to perform "on par" with other Bluetooth headphones.”

“it's good enough but kinda annoying the airpods don't seem to save my configs and connection isn't really stable”