- cross-posted to:
- apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
A long time coming.
If you’ve been looking for a reason to upgrade your AirPods, Apple hasn’t really given you any for a while.
Thankfully, Apple could finally be gearing up to introduce new models to its earbud lineup.
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Are you telling me the basic airpods don’t even have noise cancelling?
Wtaf, how has that product had any success given the myriad better options
Different earphones for different people and different ears. Some people don’t want or like the feel of a noise canceling ear bud. They require a seal in your ear canal.
IMHO, the primary selling point for Apple / Beats headphones are the little ecosystem integration things that go beyond vanilla BT headphones. And unfortunately, Apple has not opened that stuff up to 3rd parties. So if you want the additional hands free functionality, automatic device handoff, automatic pairing, etc, you need H1 or H2 chip headphones from Apple / Beats.
I physically can’t wear in-ear headphones or headphones that require a seal. Noise cancellation only really works if you have a solid seal either in-ear or over ear. I also hate the isolated feel of noise cancellation, I leave it turned off when I wear any over ear headsets (AirPods max, Sony XM4). I absolutely adore my AirPods 3 and I will upgrade to the 4s assuming they remain accessible to me.
Because most people don’t care about it. My family wants the AirPods and buys the cheapest one as the basic AirPods is usually on sale.
Yes, and that was actually what I wanted from them. They’re open enough where I can hear through them at work without having to turn on a transparency mode. They’re just my work dirty buds so I don’t really care how they sound, just that they work (and they actually work better on Android than native iOS in my experience) and they take calls. Plus they’re not built like cheap crap.
I have a set of gen 2s and one is dead so I borrowed a set of gen 1s collecting dust from a relative. No noise cancel, can’t change volume…I don’t know how they sold at all
Gen 1 sold well because there were not a lot of small, fully wireless, earbuds when those launched. Moreover, unlike other BT headphones at the time, they were low latency and paired reliably.
All in all, the market was different back then and the OG AirPods addressed a combination of user experience issues that the rest of the market wasn’t really addressing.
Still can’t bike over a speedbump without these fuckers popping out of my ears. I’d rather use my big-ass Sennheiser headphones to escape that anxiety.
Are they going to change them back to the original size, or will they still be Shrek sized?
Yes, even the smallest tips they have hurt my ears. Mine are basically unusable for more than 5 minutes because of this.
Have you tried some of the Beats form factors? My SO has smaller ears, and those work much better for her.
No, I returned the regular ones and got AirPod pros, using the regular size tips that come with them and they’re fine for the most part.
