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  • AirPods Max review: it's not easy to justify the price

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    Only Apple would make headphones without a headphone jack, without a power switch, with cloth that will get dirty, worn out, and hard to clean, and cripple the control of your music when you use their $35 wired cable for better audio.

    Didn't AI recently have an article on how to disable the automatic device switching because it is annoying when the AirPods switch to another device without your control?  Like when they automatically switch to your Mac when you wanted to keep listening on your iPhone?

    I have the Sony MX3s and they are amazing.  Excellent sound quality, excellent ANC, fold into a compact hard case, wired connection included, USB-C, excellent controls by swiping on the right ear (or covering the right ear to turn off ANC temporarily), customizable software in the Sony app, and zero issues with Bluetooth connection or wired (preferred for better audio), and all for over $200 less.

    You nailed it with this review.  Mediocre sound quality (typical of all Apple sound products) and not good enough to justify the $549 price.  Apple could have had something if they were $349 or less to compete with Bose and Sony, but no audiophile will buy these headphones if that was the market they were hoping for.  Audiophiles or recording artists do not listen to Bluetooth audio.
    Correct.. Audiphiles and recording artists use more expensive wired headphones. This headphone is not remotely geared toward an Audiophile or professional sound engineer. I don't care what the sticker shock is over the 549 price tag, they simply aren't made for those critical or professional listening use cases. They also couldn't price them at $299.00-$349.00 as that directly competes with Beats. So I can understand the price bump in that regard.

    Apple is trying to compete with MontBlanc MB-01's or Master and Dynamic MW65's at this price point.. Not Sony or Bose.. Unfortunately they don't sound good enough for the comparison they are going for with the price. 

    Here is a great review .. Audiophile honest analysis and breakdown. 


    I was really looking forward to these.. I was open to the price if the sound quality justified it. I love how my Airpods pro sound and work with my devices ( auto switching, call quality and spatial audio ) and I wanted the option going with over ears when I wanted to give my ear canals a break.. or wanted bigger better sound. With reviews like these it makes it harder and harder to justify spending this amount of money for these. 



    dewme

  • Apple TV+'s 'Ted Lasso' may only last three seasons

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    Eric_WVGG said:
    Is literally anything on AppleTV+ popular?

    Everyone is talking about Mandalorian, Queen’s Gambit, Succession… American pop culture was nearly dominated by Game of Thrones for years… I haven't seen a single tweet about even one AppleTV+ show.

    I don't think I could even name one except for Emma, and that’s only because I personally find the whole idea of it so preposterous
    I heard about Ted Lasso and Servant by word of mouth.  I don't follow twitter enough to talk about tweets,  but Jason Sudakis has an official Ted Lasso twitter account and there has 50K+ followers?  It also has a 90% critic rating and a 98% audience rating on rotten tomatoes.  We watched the Servant and are looking forward to the next season.. and we are currently half way through Ted Lasso and enjoying it very much.

    watto_cobra

  • Verizon iPhone 12 users may get better speed on 4G LTE than 5G

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    payeco said:
    elijahg said:
    Pretty much proves that 5G is premature, and is 90% marketing right now.
    Premature if they don’t have the spectrum for it. T-Mobile got a shitload, and I mean a shitload, of mid band spectrum when they bought Sprint. They’re rolling it out nationwide as we speak and it’s pretty incredible. Ping times lower than my cable internet at home with download speeds consistently greater than 500Mbps and uploads consistently 100Mbps or more. I’ve been connected to it non-stop all over the NYC area since I got my 12 Pro Max so the market is fully covered.
    I hope this type of coverage gets to where I am in the country ASAP ( Northeast PA ) because TMobile service in my area is spotty and building penetration is a joke. There are areas around town that show full bars of 5G on my 12 Pro Max and then a block away there is no service? I have had to switch cellular data off and back in some areas to try and help get my music playing and GPS working again while at a stop light. I was really hoping that the switch to 5G and the acquisition of Sprint would help the dreadful building penetration ( it hasn't ) and overall coverage.. so far I am still waiting. I am not in the middle of nowhere PA and coverage and data speed weren't an issue for me when I was using AT&T.

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  • Microsoft may follow Apple in creating own chips for Surface notebooks

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    KITA said:

    According to sources of Bloomberg, Microsoft is working on an in-house processor design, one that could be used in its Surface lineup, but may also end up in servers. Thought to be ARM-based, the chip design unit is said to report to Jason Zander, the head of Microsoft's Azure cloud business.

    That's a weird spin in the title to make it sound like Microsoft is following Apple to ARM.

    First paragraph in the bloomberg article:

    Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company’s cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance on Intel Corp.’s chip technology.

    Microsoft is going the ARM route for servers (Azure), similar to their largest competitor Amazon. AWS has already been using Amazon's own second generation ARM Graviton2 processors which, as Amazon claims, offers customers 40% better price performance than x86 based instances. A third generation Graviton3 (likely based on Neoverse V1 or Neoverse N2) is expected in 2021.

    Seriously, this isn't all about Apple all the time.
     True..but this is Appleinsider all of the time. B) This is not a general tech forum.. it's an Applecentric website. I don't even disagree with your post.. it's just wasted time for the majority of posts on an Apple website.

    watto_cobra

  • Early AirPods Max teardown reveals massive drivers, strategically placed logic boards

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    rmusikantow said:
    mike54 said:
    With all that fancy circuitry in there, I guess there is no room for just a simple on/off switch.

    I'm hoping for a much cheaper version, that sounds decent, with the same level of ANC, H1 chip, but without the spacial computational audio stuff, no gyro's  and I don't even need a sensor in each ear cup to pause sound.

    I have ordered a pair of these headphones and am looking forward to testing them out,, but am puzzled by lack of an on/off switch. I have yet to hear of a single justification for this.

    I saw a review that states that left on and out of the case overnight the battery percentage didn't move. After a while they go into a sort of sleep ( low power mode ) and if they are placed into the case they are go into a super low power mode.

    If you think about it Airpods and Airpods Pro are the same.. there is no on/off switch or any defined way to shut them completely off and battery life isn't an issue.

    watto_cobrarandominternetperson