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AirPods?! What DRUGS Were They On?! WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING??
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This is going to go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in the history of Apple. So they decided to ditch the headphone jack, in attempts to sway customers to go wireless. Great idea.
So the phone releases September 16. So on September 16 there are going to be millions of people around the world who are going to open their phones and say wow, amazing phone... now for headphones. Sure I could use these cruddy wired lightning headphones, but no, I'm on board, I want to go wireless!
So the customer goes online or goes to the store on the afternoon of September 16... and BAM... Apple can't sell them the EarPods for a MONTH AND A HALF.
So from September 16 for a month and a half until late october at the earliest, people will be getting their new phones and seeking out cool new bluetooth headphones.
Whoever at Apple is responsible for releasing a phone that forces customers to explore new technology a month and a half before apple can offer that as a sale, should. be. fired.
So the phone releases September 16. So on September 16 there are going to be millions of people around the world who are going to open their phones and say wow, amazing phone... now for headphones. Sure I could use these cruddy wired lightning headphones, but no, I'm on board, I want to go wireless!
So the customer goes online or goes to the store on the afternoon of September 16... and BAM... Apple can't sell them the EarPods for a MONTH AND A HALF.
So from September 16 for a month and a half until late october at the earliest, people will be getting their new phones and seeking out cool new bluetooth headphones.
Whoever at Apple is responsible for releasing a phone that forces customers to explore new technology a month and a half before apple can offer that as a sale, should. be. fired.
Ha! Egg-Sact-ly! And I don't even order a new phone. Just want to use it with my 6s. So tired of wire.
Agreed.
The timing is off.
I was told at the Apple Store that they will (may) be available on 9/16.
Hopefully.
I want these Airpod computers on a stick.
The possibilities & potential is greater than what I had imagined.
I'll gladly add smart devices that are easy to use.
Easy with everything, especially Apple devices.
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Well considering Tim Cook said they'd be released end of October, I'd take the Apple Store Employee's (they don't know what's arriving until they open the box - they're the last to know about anything) idea that they might magically show up a month and a half early is just silly.
I'm baffled nobody seems to be making an issue out of bluetooth earbuds. In each ear you have a device that's not onto emitting RF (radiation no matter how little amount) outward, but inward as well. With this type of earbud, there's not only outward communication with your phone, but between the two earbuds the entire time they're in use. What's between the 2 earbuds while in use? Hopefully not a bunch of hot air. I'm not one to fear my own shadow, but it does cause concern.
I don't know how I missed that on the chive but I just laughed way too hard!
Yes, it is a concern.
For the young with a developing brain, this may be very harmful.
For an adult brain, not so much.
There are worse traumas that the brain withstands.
Until it doesn't.
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