This is true
“Find-my” and shared audio does not work because they don’t have apple chips
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Over 1,000 Fake AirPods Pro Seized at Dulles International Airport, Counterfeiters Would Have Made $290,000
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True. Wonder how different the sound quality and ANC is between the real and fakes.
That's a drop in the bucket.
Lots of stores in the US sell knock-off APPs from cheap discount stores to more known stores like TJMax/Marshalls to Amazon and eBay.
Have to hand it to Apple to create products that make people want them.
It's sad that people are willing to pay for counterfeit products but understandable since the genuine products cost more but that need for counterfeit products creates a black market.
What's really bad is when people complain that it's fake (No kidding!) considering they were willing to pay for the counterfeit product.
Getting it as a gift is a different story as it's hard to tell counterfeit products from the genuine ones now as the counterfeiters are doing their best to imitate it so precisely that no one knows how to tell the fake ones apart from the genuine ones.
Lots of stores in the US sell knock-off APPs from cheap discount stores to more known stores like TJMax/Marshalls to Amazon and eBay.
Have to hand it to Apple to create products that make people want them.
It's sad that people are willing to pay for counterfeit products but understandable since the genuine products cost more but that need for counterfeit products creates a black market.
What's really bad is when people complain that it's fake (No kidding!) considering they were willing to pay for the counterfeit product.
Getting it as a gift is a different story as it's hard to tell counterfeit products from the genuine ones now as the counterfeiters are doing their best to imitate it so precisely that no one knows how to tell the fake ones apart from the genuine ones.
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Every time I end up with a counterfeit from Amazon, if I try to point that out in a review, my review is immediately deleted.
Why Amazon is complicit in this, I have no idea.
There's counterfeit leather... even counterfeit motor oil and filters!
Anything that is super important, (like freaking ENGINE OIL) I don't do mail order any more, unless direct from the manufacturer.
I have some old wired fake earpods, and the speaker/mic quality is indistinguishable. The difference is that after a few years, they faded to PINK (!) color, while real earpods are still white.
How did you know the case was fake? TIA for the 411.
Serious question here, but how does a person actually know an Apple product is fake? Just because it's discounted doesn't mean a thing seeing as all major sellers e.g Costco, Best Buy, Amazon, Target, Walmart, etc. put Apple products on sale periodically. TIA for the 411.
Are you sure about that? Wouldn't surprise me if someone went to all the trouble to mold plastic, install BT circuitry, etc, that they wouldn't find a way to spoof the whole thing including security chips.
I thought Amazon is the only merchant that can sell Apple products on their platform. So, they should be avoiding the issue of co-mingling inventory from various merchants.
edit: after a little searching, I have discovered I was wrong.
The knockoffs I've seen don't actually even have noise cancellation. The phone does recognize them as AirPods, but they're total crap besides that. Terrible sound and no ANC.
When I was in Colombia a niece of my gf gave me 'her' airpods (found out she was about to buy them) because the case wouldn't charge. I then reset it, paired them again. etc and they worked perfectly. Only when I entered the menu I saw a message that they are possibly fake. I wouldn't have noticed it. They pair, charge etc. exactly like the original. The niece said they sound good, too, and for the price of about $15 she was going to buy them, fake or not.
Nope? Shipping costs, production, seller wants something too. And Who the fu** sends such stuff with planes? From china...
Be careful. They still have no a Airpod Ultra / Plus 🤣 1000$+...This article is another living proof of why Apple should release the exclusive Transparent Airpods
Same.
Does it use apple’s Bluetooth codec the right “Apple” way? (default Bluetooth audio coded is quite bad?).
Does it show the case/AirPods batteries when you open the case on the fancy iPhone screen pop up? And actually, does the whole first time setup goes through the same seamless popup?
Can it connect to Mac, iPhone, iPad, AppleTV, etc with optional choice of head tracking, etc without issues and properly tied to the user’s iCloud?
So many questions, if I wanted just normal headphones with none of that… I would get a normal headphone. In my opinion AirPods aren’t the ultimate best, neither aesthetically, but all the UX niceties and ecosystem more than sway me to it.
Special Audio is another annoying "feature." And I always forget how to turn it off (it seems to default to on, and has to be disabled in each individual app instead of there being a global setting to completely disable it).Let's not forget about the Spacial Audio.
How to Set Up AirPods Personalized Spatial Audio
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Easy to tell by the photo from the CBP that they are fake. Since TSMC is having a problem with the M3's, the bite out of the Apple is off by 3nm.
For some it's not that they're too cheap to buy the real thing. They just don't see the value in spending that much when they can get 80% to 90% of the functionality of the real thing for about 25% of the price of the real thing.
Yes, it's silly that they want people to think they have AirPods. Whatever.
Connect them to the iPhone and if they cannot be verified, they most likely (though not always since there can be false positive) they're clones.
Apple Explains iPhone's New Alert Shown When Fake AirPods Are Connected
Starting with iOS 16, users may see a "Cannot Verify AirPods" alert on their iPhone if they try to connect fake AirPods to the device. Apple...
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They have ANC. They even have spatial audio.
I ever bought a knock off which looks exactly like the same thing for less than $50 (advertised as a clone). It has ANC and spatial audio. Transparency is there too, but not as good. ANC is decent, spatial audio too (probably as it tricks ios into changing the output).
That set do not have find my, but my friend has a set with find my workable.
On taobao they now have a AirTag equivalent (doesn’t look like AirTag but functions like AirTag). So find my seems to have been hacked.
Only thing which I know does not work is precision finding on air pod 2. So if you are buying airpod pro 2, that is the first thing you should check
They already hacked this for a whileConnect them to the iPhone and if they cannot be verified, they most likely (though not always since there can be false positive) they're clones.
Apple Explains iPhone's New Alert Shown When Fake AirPods Are Connected
Starting with iOS 16, users may see a "Cannot Verify AirPods" alert on their iPhone if they try to connect fake AirPods to the device. Apple...
Think before posting. I see these everywhere on OfferUp, and I almost got duped myself. People often purchase them with the shrink wrap still on. Not everyone purchasing these are for themselves; sometimes it’s as a gift and the shrink wrap is desirable.
Along with modernized “flavors” of translucent iMacs!This article is another living proof of why Apple should release the exclusive Transparent Airpods
That's the problem, if someones fake ear pods worked good, you don't know if you bought the good fake one or bad fake one or real bad one.