Post #3861998

2026-07-09 05:37 UTC

What the fuck do AirPods have to do with this? Any wireless earbuds are awesome. I can start playing a video on my phone, and it connects. I take a call on my laptop, and it jumps there immediately. I don’t have to fiddle with a cord that constantly gets tangled and then eventually just stops working because it’s been bent in the same spot for 2 years. I can connect my AirPods and my wife’s AirPods to my phone on a plane, and we watch a video together, and I didn’t have to remember to bring my headphone splitter.

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@unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2026-07-09 11:22

Dude, you to offense like nobody’s business… I’m not dissing on wireless ear buds, I’m specifically calling out Apple brand for the “always active mic” which is a privacy concern in itself. And 2. Its the popularization of trying to make it a normalized thing that everybody wears. It wasn’t socially acceptable to otherwise wear them around all the time, but now it’s seen as a “status symbol” so now is OK to do… Go ahead and keep spending exorbitant money on Apple products, they’ve clearly wrangled you into their ecosystem and I somehow hit a nerve lmao. I get the point to their functionality, too, you don’t have to explain magical wireless technology to me, it sounds like you’re trying to justify something to yourself. The pair/brand I own don’t have an always-on mic, they don’t send data to the Mothership, and they probably sound a whole HELL of a lot better than yours trash apple product 😂 Cracks me up though, you’re spending $600+ on 2 SETS of airpods for a (2-4hour?) flight vs a <$10 headphone splitter… Who you convincing they’re great, yourself?? ANYWAY back to my point, I can see Apple trying to release their own version of these glasses and trying to normalize them, and poor fucking saps like you will gobble it up and continue trying to justify it all the same… I bet you have a pair of their $3500 augmented reality headset too…

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