Re:AirPods are now available
by 1_2__3 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:47PM
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The most profitable company in the world doesn't need us to carry their water for them. Let Gruber take care of that. You're literally trying to defend Apple for using the term "magical" to refer to a pair of pedestrian wireless headhones. Come on.
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To someone that uses headphones for many hours on a daily basis, useful innovation in the space definitely feels magical to me considering how long I've been using the same old dumb wired headphones.
The point is, if you want to convince others why it is so, you have to play by their rules. Your opinion is simply your opinion.
I do like _some_ of Apple's products, but I would never spend 150 dollars on these headphones. I'm hoping that Apple cheerleaders will drive down the cost so I can get the version 2/3 for cheap when all the bugs have been ironed out.
Is colorful language in marketing new or unique to Apple? Are there people that actually mistake the term 'magical' in this context to mean, 'these headphones actually have supernatural forces working inside them!'
I agree with what you said, but like I said, the act of persuasion isn't merely stating facts.
Surely you can see that comments could have different moods. Some might simply be sarcastic, others cynical, or maybe people just venting at Apple for a bad experience they had with some other Apple product, etc, etc.
I'm still waiting to see a list of "pedestrian wireless headphones" that are actually wireless and automatically pair all your devices via the cloud.
To be sure, if that's the definition of "magical" we're working with here, I'm not sure it reaches.