First look: Apple's BeatsX earphones with integrated W1 chip
Apple on Friday released BeatsX, a long-delayed wireless earphone product in the Beats line that incorporates the company's new W1 chip into a tethered headset design. AppleInsider goes hands-on in this first look video.
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The only thing I find a bit strange: what's with the black adaptor cord on a white-colored product?
Speaking of Lightning cables: they are one of the most fragile cables in existence. I've never broken one myself, but the slightest bending the wrong way and they break. I know, I have nieces and nephews. If they were €5 I'd say something, but they are a glorious Schiller-tastic €25 without a fucking wall plug (used be €19; even then they were very much overpriced; this pricing has only encouraged lots of people to opt for dangerous Chinese chargers, I digress)—apparently a magic inflation that only affects Apple happened somewhere along the way. Schiller even has the arrogance to charge €25 for a half-length cable. And make no mistake it's his doing.
Why is the dumb to include a charging cable that fits in the headphone case with the headphones? It sounds thought out, to me.
And thanks for helping me realize that the case too should have got the same treatment.
2) Why would you expect Beats to drop their black cables for white when Apple hasn't dropped their white cables to match their devices? Pretty much every Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Watch comes with a white cable and PSU. There have been very few exceptions, and none of which I think of off the top of my head but I'm sure there is at least one outlier.
edit: Here's one. I can't find any others without going back to the TAM. Even the black polycarbonate MacBook from 2006 that cost $200 more that its white counterpart with otherwise same HW specs didn't come with a black power cable and PSU… and that was still during the Steve Jobs reign so the "Steve wouldn't never let this happen" argument by Ireland is also bunk.