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cmert42 said:

I've owned other Bluetooth earbuds in the past and didn't care for them. I've always found the latency while watching video to be unbearable. Can any AirPod owners explain their experience? Does they work well no matter what service is being used (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, personal media, etc)? Can I use them to stream sound from an ATV so I don't keep my wife up when she falls asleep at 8:30?

I don't have the AirPods but I do have the Beats with the same W1 chip. There is no latency when I view video on my iPad, AppleTV (4th Gen) or my iPhone. The AirPods I can only assume would be just as good based on the W1 chip.

I have used iTunes, Netflix and several other services across these devices and the experience was consistently great.

I have tried other Bluetooth headphones and speakers which all had at least some degree of latency. Based on my experience I would not recommend any Bluetooth headphones for watching video unless they contained the W1 chip. 

rob53 said:

Does this mean Apple is bowing to the Australian banks? I hope it only means none banking/purchasing use of NFC.

I wondered the same thing at first. But from what I read in the article I think the access to NFC will be fairly limited.

"Your app can read tags to give users more information about their physical environment and the real-world objects in it. For example, your app might give users information about products they find in a store or exhibits they visit in a museum," the document says.

That doesn't sound like it will enable the banks to create their own mobile payment solutions that leverage of the iPhones NFC.