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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by ikeboy on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:19PM (#21987641)
I've been switching between my Ubuntu laptop and Android phone. Pretty simple, I do need to disconnect it manually on one device before switching to the other but that takes a second.

I don't believe Airpods would be any better in that scenario.

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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by toasterlovin on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @11:33PM (#21988380)
> ...but that takes a second.

A huge percentage of our species gladly trade money for, objectively speaking, very minor improvements in convenience or experience. Apple has been taking this fact to the bank for 30 years. You may not have the same preferences, but you're probably in the minority. FWIW.

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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by holografix on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:42AM (#21988953)
I think our perception of improvement is not linear when it comes to a lot of things, one of them being the “convenience of time” and we attribute an strong preference for something objectively better even if the improvement is marginal. The “slightly sharper camera lens” or “slightly lighter bike”. In terms of time, waiting 30 or 20 seconds for a computer to boot up won’t make much difference to most people but waiting 10 or 1 second makes a huge difference in perception.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by mikestew on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:35PM (#21987735)
I do need to disconnect it manually on one device before switching to the other but that takes a second.

Only a second if your kids don’t have it, or you didn’t leave it at home, or...

With AirPods, one does not need track down the other device.

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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by ikeboy on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @09:39PM (#21987762)
I've used a $50 pair that had that feature, if I cared about it I'd use that over Airpods.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by mikestew on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:17AM (#21991607)
So I can go find the ones ikeboy used some time ago, if I can find them, and the user isn’t misremembering... or I can go buy AirPods. Going AirPods on this one.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by mprev on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:35AM (#21990819)
If you're using Ubuntu and Android then you're already trading less convenience for either financial or philosophical reasons. So, you're probably not the market for AirPods.
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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by damnyou on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:33AM (#21991237)
Not the GP but I use Linux and Android primarily because they're more convenient (to me at least).

I'm philosophically aligned with Linux but not with Android.

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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by ikeboy on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:13AM (#21992095)
My killer Android feature is having a microsd card. Not supporting that is very inconvenient of Apple.

I've tried both Windows and Mac, I just like Ubuntu better.

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Re:Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing? by rchaud on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:25PM (#21993570)
microSD is a big, big reason I'm still using Android. Before that the key factor was replaceable batteries, but all the OEMs shifted to non-replaceable sometime around 2015-16.
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