actual thoughts of apple users
Have experienced this, lost a client because I use android so I 'must not be doing very well, business-wise."
that is insane
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Initially by giving a bunch away free to known Hollywood clubbers and expanding out from there, word of mouth started a demand before it even had a chance to be properly advertised.
Next by cultivating a certain aesthetic that is preferable to the wealthy: Clean simplistic unadorned and different from all the plebes.
Third extend that same aesthetic to the commercials, unfavorably compare the frumpy no-fun businessman with the young hip creative trust fund kiddy.
Here’s the thing: either you deal with wires, or you deal with batteries.
I don’t like wires, but by god i can’t stand batteries. You gotta charge them, they can run out, they degrade over time, they make the device more expensive, they’re more complicated, also wireless transmittion (wifi/bluetooth) is less reliable compared to the simplicity and immediacy of you plug something in and it’s almost impossible for it not to work. All of my shit is wired.
Though i admit wires vs batteries is circumstancial. I don’t get wireless mice or keyboards, but i do get wireless headsets, you can go anywhere around the house, and when you’re outside it doesn’t snag on anything.
I love a wireless mouse, since I realised it lasts much longer than a cheap wired mouse in my hands: because the cable eventually frays at the mouse end. (I do a lot of travelling.)
A cheap-ish wireless mouse with a single AA battery is easier to use, less hassle, and cheaper in the long run.
I haven’t yet found a cheap wireless keyboard I like (except the tiny one I got for my Pi years ago, which is great for its use but not for normal everyday typing), and I don’t have enough use case to try an expensive one over just using my laptop keyboard.
Wireless headsets… I’d like to like one, but the battery issue, plus the price, plus the lag… I still use wired earphones for now.
Yeah, this goes to show that wires vs batteries is circumstantial. The physical inconvenience of wires really matters when you’re travelling.
I have to say it took me a week to figure out how to pair the bluetooth headset i bought…
Wireless keyboards can be nice for switching between devices more easily. It’s a pretty niche use for me though.
the simplicity and immediacy of you plug something in and it’s almost impossible for it not to work
Amigo, what about the unbearable suffering of “the wires only work in this specific position”
just buy headphones that have replaceable cables, proper IEMs have this feature. It’s good.
just tuck the wire in your shirt and through the pants. ezpz
It feels like such a solution in search of a problem, why would I need wireless earbuds for possibly the single device I own that, if I’m using it, will never be more than wire-length away from my ears, it’s literally either in my hand or in my pocket
you cant even get that far away from it before the bluetooth loses connection
I dont need another fucking thing in my life that I need to remember to charge every other day
It’s really not that bad, especially if you get ones where the case charges wirelessly. Then you just set the case on the charger when you get home or whatever. Admittedly that does require some investment.
I laughed but then realized that this is also classist.
I wear big over ear headphones with a wire. I probably look like a fucking psycho.
The “don’t fucking talk to me” starter pack
I used to think airpods were lame and dumb but now I love them.
Last month I bought a pair of padded headphones, analogue headphone jack with 2 sizes so it works for my interface too, with detachable cable. No bluetooth, no wifi, no special driver package, no LEDs: just headphones for only $18 while on sale.
Thank you, airpods. You’ve somehow made regular quality goods much more affordable by simply being the bigger gimmick.
I still have never used wireless earbuds. I don’t understand why anyone would prefer them over regular earbuds. The only benefit is not having a cord that could snag on something. But you need to charge them, keep them in range of your Bluetooth source, you risk losing one or both because they’re so tiny, and they’re expensive as hell and way overpriced for the garbage you’re getting.
I’d rather pay $10 or less for wired headphones, be able to grab and go anytime without charging, plug and play immediately instead of wirelessly pairing them to a device and then having to manually pair them again anytime I connect to a new device, and then run the cable under my shirt so it doesn’t snag on anything. Wireless earbuds are teaching us to put up with more BS in the name of hip trends.
I prefer wired, bit the industry doesn’t fucking care what consumers want.
You can’t vote with your dollars when Apple cuts it and Google and Samsung follow suit. You (we) are just screaming into the void mostly.
For what it’s worth, the real airpods innovation in my mind was the charging case, and while there are plenty of crap ass basic immitators there are also some decent midrange contenders that do great for day to day listening.
Crinical and others reviewed the Moondrop Space Aage well, so for $25 I tried them. Which is a good price point because I dgaf if I lose them. I tried their slightly more premium Moondrop Golden Ages and loved them. They are miniature planar drivers, so the sound is very clean. It’s not as good a amp powered monitors of course, but for for any kind of mobile casual listening it’s pretty excellent.
I say all this really to say that as the wireless buds have become truly cheap, and the quality floor has raised on some of them, they aren’t actually trash options anymore. I still like having a headphone jack but I miss it less now. As long as I charge the case once a week, for my listening habits, it’s more than enough.
Sony still makes phones with headphone jacks, they also have kickass cameras. I’m rocking an xperia 5 v and its been great. The only thing its missing is a removable battery.
This true, though I do find the pixel series cameras to be subjectively better overall. That’s the key feature for me over the others sadly. I used to use Xperia. Then they got expensive and switched. Now everyone else got expensive too. So I might just switch back if their camera keeps improving. The sensor is always top tier, their post processing is just a few steps behind the others.
Again, just my subjective feel. I check MKBHDs blind camera rankings each year to see if there’s a standout to look into as well. Xperia does okay there IMO. Pixel kills it though as an all-arounder camera. (The gcam port projects help fix this though)
No doubt. For me, the pixel is a non-starter due to lack of sd card slot and lack of headphone jack. They used to not be ip rated too which is a big deal for me but I think the newer ones are.
A benefit is that they are so small that I can have them as a part of my stuff I always carry without thinking about and use whenever and easily put them away. With wired its always neccesary to roll them up and then run them under the shirt so they don’t get caught on things.
I respect your choice and opinion on not wanting wireless earbuds but there’s plenty of use cases for them besides just wanting to be hipster.
I have had jobs where I was moving around so much that even with the cord under my shirt they would tug and get pulled out, I have spent a comparable amount of money buying wired earbuds because they’ve gotten pulled and the cable ruined. Mind you, I’m a careful person but accidents happen, especially when you’re listening to as much media as I am. I was in the top .1 percent on Spotify for the past couple years.
Wireless are more decreet for jobs where they are accepted but sorta looked down upon.
You use your wired earbuds on a devise that already uses a battery you have to keep charged, it really isn’t that much effort to make sure the wireless ones stay charged and plenty last for a week of regular use. I personally just plug in my case at work every day so it’s a non issue, and before I would just plug them in at night before sleeping like plenty of people do with their phones.
Pairing isn’t difficult nor does it come often, I’ve had my buds for 3 years and I’ve had to pair to 3 things. My phone, pc and laptop. I would argue having to run the cable under your shirt has wasted more of your time than the occasional pairing of wireless to a new devise ever would.
They used to be expensive, there’s a bunch now that have decent quality for 30 to 40 bucks and some of the best are around 100. Here’s a site if you wanna browse through some reviews from a trusted source.
Wireless isn’t a hip trend it’s the future. The proof is that you’re carrying a wireless phone with you instead of using landlines or public phones and you probably use some sort of plastic card to pay for stuff instead of carrying all your cash with you at all times.
No hate, everyone is free to do what works best for them. By all means if wired works great for you have at it.
I have a set of decent ones and still think they’re inferior to wired ones in a lot of ways. Bluetooth is always janky, they have a noticeable delay when watching videos especially when I use them with my PC, It might just be that I have weird ears but they constantly shift around and disconnect despite trying different sized rubber things and they’re expensive and you can’t easily replace the batteries when they inevitably wear out.
The pods in the kids’ ears did it for me, lmao. Hoooly.
Reminds me of this
Where is this from? Looks interesting. Neat hair styles.
I don’t know but I’d bet it’s from Black Mirror!
Apparently Samsung ridiculing Apple phones’ notches. 😄
Bluetooth earbuds that are connected by a wire are superior in every regard and I will die on this hill
One falls out, hangs from the wire to the other ear. Rather than falling to the dirty gym bathroom floor in piss. Always worth it, and so much less expensive for the same audio quality. Also I can touch the earbud and not have it think I’m signaling to pause the audio.
My therapist mistook mine for some kind of tribal necklace, which is cool
falling to the dirty gym bathroom floor in piss
Do… do y’all wear headphones in the bathroom?
Great way to prevent bathroom conversations!
The real folks you gotta be scared of are those with no headphones just out there raw dogging reality
I don’t support physical violence in most cases but people who use speakerphone or listen to music out loud in public spaces should be flogged.
Hi shitbag, I can’t wear earphones due to persistent ear infection risk due to a punctured eardrum and repeated past infections.
Come up and flog me and see what happens…
Public is public, if you have sensory issues, that’s on you. No one has ever given me a pass for mine so fucking deal with it.
Also: I fully support physical violence and find it enjoyable.
Youre not the majority, noone owes it to you to assume that and be nice either
Telling me I can’t use my phone in public because for some reason you have Japan-train-levels of silence expectation is not being nice.
Public is public, as long as it breaks no noise laws I am free to listen to my entire family friendly MLP fanfic audiobook archive and you have zero right to be judgmental. All of modern society has conspired to erase our public squares and meeting places and replace it all with a maze of asphalt so DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE do the Man’s job for him with your exclusionary delicacies.
Public is public and you should support every use of it or they will just keep taking more and more away.
They’re already working on the libraries, so don’t fucking help them with your bullshit memes.
Username checks out.
I want to say username checks out but don’t at the same time
The eternal mystery of the dichotomy of man
This reminds me of the time my mom broke her leg and was in the hospital and a social worker came in and asked her if she was eligible for Medicaid and then my dad got so offended that someone could think she’s “low income” that he forcibly had her transferred out to a private hospital.
I guess this joke is to USA for me to understand
Medicaid is something that you have to be quite poor to get. It means you are poor enough that the government pays for 100% of your medical care. In the US it is a shame to be poor. It means you are a garbage human being who didn’t try and is now leaching off the rest of us. Yes its a garbage country.
I appreciate your commitment to the satire but fuck this hurts to read as someone whose family has used Medicaid in the past.
My family is on Medicaid NOW. My wife stopped being medically able to work years ago but magically doesn’t qualify as disabled enough to get any help of any kind. We lost our house because of that and legal fees fighting for my mother in law whose family members were abusing her financially and physically and its just been kind of downhill from their financially.
to add to the other comments, i qualified for Medicaid in the past only because my annual income was under 14400 per year. you have to be POORpoor. like “how are you alive” poor.
Petah, explain the joke
The joke is that someone is using traditional headphones with a 3.5 mm jack. This confuses the kids, who have never seen anything but AirPods. Their mother sees this and says, “This neighborhood isn’t safe,” a deliberate exaggeration of the reaction people living in the Apple ecosystem have to traditional headphones.
Wonder what they think of me with my big ass studio monitors because earbuds irritate the shit out of my ears.
As long as they’re white and branded with the fruit of a yellow, waterproof coat.
