I HATE APPLE

Airpods as the budget option wow.

airpods aren’t perfect but they’re one of the best things apple has done in the past five years

low bar

exactly

give me proper IEM Airpods and i'm sold. I've been using the wired Apple ones for 10 years and they're pretty good.

xp Nice guide to Ultrabooks. I am investing in a nicer laptop when my clunky Acer bites it. I like my missus's MacBook Air... when I'm not using it.

I'm dual booting Linux and Windows for now. Years ago there was an ok market for bare laptop cases so you could put in whatever you want. But I came up just about empty searching for these yesterday.

Is there anything ultrabook quality available without a disk/OS at least?

xp There are surprisingly decent Bluetooth earbuds around for around $50, if you don't mind a wire connecting them, sitting on the back of your neck

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

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.

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.

Every time something new gets batteries we get a new story about how battery life degrades after many charging cycles.

Also “plunk”

the easy way around battery degradation is by making them replaceable

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.

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

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.

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

waht is all this extraneous shit

wow, this is all spectacular garbage

uh I guess hopefully the tv service is better than Directv Now?

i've got nothing here

unveiling your original video content with a bunch of celebrities, none of who are under the age of 40, is a thing

I HATE APPLE

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

Did I notice Louis Ck in the pic onscreen?

Siri, show me dystopic 'happiness'

https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2019-03-25/f1553538462.jpg

Tim Cook says Apple has one more remarkable story to share.

"The Mueller report!"

Is that big bird presenting on stage? Damn

Apple credit card kind of feels like a big deal

I refuse to obtain any kind of credit card no matter the points or cash back involved, because I am not a sucker

that "look at all the famous people we got" slide is one of the most obnoxious things i have ever seen

that really was a dreadful keynote, huh

but is also a physical card made out of titanium

xp embarrassingly bad, by the look of it

these guys are going to make a septillion dollars from all this horseshit tho

greed eh

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

should take themselves private tbh

for real though, Disney needs to start making electronics so we can have a slugfest between them, Apple, Amazon, and AT&T

(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

AppazonT&D. Calling it.

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.

otm, until now all my news had been curated by hula hoops

got the chipmunks christmas song in my head now

still am embarrassing keynote though.

Everyone needs to just stop buying all shit in general.

Easy for you to say but what am I supposed to put in my house if I stop buying shit

You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.

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...

so is the headphone jack coming back, yes or no

You can fill your house with deafening emptiness.

― nathom, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 8:23 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sounds familiar!

https://i.imgur.com/ohMI8vG.jpg

(but he's playing records!)