elijahg

foregoneconclusion said:

elijahg said: If the AirPods aren’t reaching the claimed battery life from factory, and it requires a derating of ANC to make it so, then that’s very much open to a class action suit over misselling. Similarly if it can be proven decisively that ANC has been made worse since the AirPods were released, that’s likely also open to a class action suit. 

A. RTings doesn't make any claims about battery life increasing/decreasing with firmware 4E71

B. RTings only makes a vague claim of reduced ANC performance..."blocks out a bit less noise between the mid-bass to high-bass range than the previous firmware."

C. Unlike the other headphones in the same category (like Sony XM4), RTings didn't bother to retest other categories for the AirPods Max with 4E71 firmware. 

^^^ That last part is another reason RTings credibility on headphones takes a hit. You can't be cherry-picking which firmware updates to test extensively. 

A. That was @obiwanbill 's suggestion not mine. 

B. It has been widely noticed that ANC has got worse over time with the APPs. There was a professional study someone did a while ago comparing the pre and post update APPs, in which they found a marked difference in ANC performance. 

C. Okay? So? A regression in one category isn't balanced out by a potential improvement elsewhere. If the ANC is worse, it's worse. 

obiwanbill said:

crazyexcalibur said:

They did this with the AirPod Pro. They made the ANC worse in it after a firmware update. Why do they keep doing that?

To improve battery life?

Damned if u do and damned if u don’t? Apple losses both ways?

If the AirPods aren’t reaching the claimed battery life from factory, and it requires a derating of ANC to make it so, then that’s very much open to a class action suit over misselling. Similarly if it can be proven decisively that ANC has been made worse since the AirPods were released, that’s likely also open to a class action suit. 

dewme said:
This sounds like something Microsoft would do. Or to be more precise, something Microsoft has already done at least 4 times with varying degrees of failure. 

iOS 16 has some pretty glaring bugs still.

AirPlay to my Homepods often fails, or takes so long to start that iOS times out and resumes playing locally; only for the Homepod to start playing a few seconds later. Then it's a case of stopping the local playback, clicking the Airplay icon again and then choosing "control other devices" then touch the HP. A proper mess.

The new home screen's notifications show up with square edges sometimes only for them to pop to round ones when you interact. The Music widget sometimes shows half sized so the controls are chopped off. It's more like a late stage beta than a final 3 versions in.

Battery drain is still *much* higher on iOS16 too. Used to get to the end of the day with 80% battery remaining on my 13 Pro, I was stunned. Now it's more like 65% left.

Not a bug but the new video controls are idiotic. Why put the play/pause/skip controls in the middle of the screen overlaying and therefore obscuring the video?! Oh and they sometimes show up squashed too. They moved for the sake of moving.

As an aside, the HPs have lost the ability to play news by saying "What's the news" too, replying with "I found some web results". But Homepod Siri is broken most of the time so it's actually surprising when it works. Asking to play my favourites mix stopped working the other day, it starts playing "Favourites Mix" by some artist I've never played before. Seems to be fixed now. Do they do no regression testing at all at Apple?

Stabitha_Christie said:

crowley said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

crowley said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

crowley said:

Retail staff lose hours and income at a time when finances are being stretched, all because an old woman died of natural causes.  Fantastic.

Where did it say that staff wouldn't be paid for the time off?

It doesn’t say they will and there’s little reason to suppose that they would be.

I robot know you  from your posts here but is seems somewhat out of character to just make things up. 

So many shops are closed right now, you seriously expect that all those staff are being paid?  No chance.

Even if Apple are paying their staff they're contributing to a grief indulgence environment where many other employers will not be paying their workers.  This is not something we need right now, there is no justification for it.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/queen-elizabeth-death-king-charles-2022-09-12/card/queen-s-funeral-could-dent-the-u-k-economy-cTGzylqqh4knX0geVXOj

Keep moving those goal posts. 

Crowley apparently despises the Queen for some reason, and is apparently pissed off that others don't, and therefore is annoyed by shops closing as a mark of respect. It's one day in the 70 year reign of a monarch. He really needs to get over his own sense of self-importance.