You can configure them to pause them when you take them out of your ear, except when it is not an Apple device. They will refuse to do so, even though they clearly detect the event since you can no longer use the stem as a pause button when you do so.

Clearly they make it worse just because you didn't get an Apple device, so yeah idk what you're smoking but give me some.

yeah the fact that many things start working if you change the host ID to apple device is very sus. i retract.

> Apple is happy to let you run whatever operating system on your Mac -- they aren't actively hostile there

Weird to praise Apple for the one line of devices they let you install your own operating system on and ignore that every other device doesn't.

Even that is a lie. It allows other OSs, but they know quite well, that without drivers, it’s an empty promise. I can’t run anything else on my Mini for example.

I'm expecting them to lock down future devices because of this. Asahi can't keep up so the feature is basically unused.

This is the same Apple that sued people making "Hackintosh" machines...

Which is completely the opposite—running Apple software on non-Apple hardware—so they make no money whatsoever off such users.

> Even that is a lie.

> It allows other OSs

So it's not a lie?

If I allow you to cross my main door, but I'm 100% kill you immediately after that, do I really allow you into my home, or not? Your legalese only works in court, and Apple and fanboys spread this nonsense only because of legal reasons.

You're really twisting yourself into a pretzel to make it seem like Apple has made it impossible to install Asahi or something. Introducing these weird analogies about doors and killing people just dilutes whatever point you think you're making, and only invites people to fork the conversation with their own "well akshually it's like inviting you into my kitchen but not giving you a cookbook" retorts. Be direct, make the point you're going to make, not a sophist's allegory.

I’m happy to tell you, that If you don’t understand, then you don’t want to understand, and that this poor trial of protection of self esteem doesn’t worth anybody’s time.

better point than i made by getting down into the analogy mud, well put

You are the first in my life who said to a cognitive dissonance that it’s well put. People always amaze me.

Except of course they did something. They created a new language from scratch when they knew this whole situation beforehand.

My analogy is perfect, because it’s easy to filter people out who cannot add anything to the discussion. They immediately start to divert the discussion to orthogonal topics, which has nothing to do with the core topic. It’s a bait for stupid people. It makes obvious when the commenter really has well thought thoughts, or just parroting something.

> Why would they try to make the AirPods a worse purchase?

Why assume this is what they're doing?

Apple can only QA so much. To open up proprietary tacked-on features to a hardware ecosystem they can't control, opens up AirPods to be perceived as buggy on those devices, which isn't going to help the perception of quality of Apple products for non-iPhone/iPad users.