right_said_fred

StrangeDays said:

mac_128 said:

right_said_fred said:

I returned my set, despite the W1.
Exercising while listening to music was OK, sound OK, didn't fall off
Pairing was OK too, but switching sound source from macbook / apple watch /iPhone was very fussy - and several times headphones shoed up on phone, but I couldnt select them as source for making a phone call. Had to power them down and re-power - re-pair.
biggest complaint, about 20 % of time, whover i was talking to on Beats, cmplained of awful quaility, tinny or muffled ? sometimes breaking up
The second time that my wife hung up on me in frustration was the day i re-boxed and returned.

Not a complaint - i knew this when i bought them - but still - why not let them charge from a lightening port (female)? 
Apple stremline connections which is great, (usb-c and lightneing) except when they dont.

hope your experience goes better

I too find it interesting on a pair of headphones about which one of its strongest selling point is the cross-compatibility with Apple products via simple pairing, uses a charging cable that no other Apple branded device uses.

The reason is plainly obvious. Beats as a brand is cross platform, thus USB. Apple branded gear are more tailored to apple ecosystem interfaces.

well - except that they use the W1 chip - its suposed to be a big deal - but the W1 chip is only for apple devices... so again why not put the lightning (female) to charge.
of course - offer two versions for the few that would pay this much (for the W1) who then doeasn't use the W1 bacuase they are not pairing it with apple devices.

its pretty silly IMO (of course) to put a charging connector that they dont use on any apple device. - 

I returned my set, despite the W1.
Exercising while listening to music was OK, sound OK, didn't fall off
Pairing was OK too, but switching sound source from macbook / apple watch /iPhone was very fussy - and several times headphones shoed up on phone, but I couldnt select them as source for making a phone call. Had to power them down and re-power - re-pair.
biggest complaint, about 20 % of time, whover i was talking to on Beats, cmplained of awful quaility, tinny or muffled ? sometimes breaking up
The second time that my wife hung up on me in frustration was the day i re-boxed and returned.

Not a complaint - i knew this when i bought them - but still - why not let them charge from a lightening port (female)? 
Apple stremline connections which is great, (usb-c and lightneing) except when they dont.

hope your experience goes better

ihatescreennames said:

netrox said:

ihatescreennames said:

netrox said:

There's no way to delete the event without hitting "Decline" which is a big no no since it will inform the spammer you exist.

As the article states,  and I have done, just create a new calendar called, for instance, "Spam", move the invites into that calendar and then delete the Spam calendar. The invite is now gone and you don't have to accept or decline it. 

Yes and it's way too much trouble. 

Too much trouble? It takes less time than it took for your original post. 

Seriously, it's a nuisance not only to do it, but to explain to coworkers the workaround. Yes it's too much trouble, how hard is it to have a 'decline don't notify' button?
youl see this has been an issue for some years now, bout time it got a simple fix.

I have 2015 Audi S4, it seemed flawless with iPhone 6 and Apple watch (1) 
Now sometimes with iPhone7 and Apple watch 2 - if i get a call and answer it either with the Audi BT button, or even on the phone, it answers but my Apple watch keeps ringing, and on other occasions iPhone (phone) connects but music doesn't.

Apple have a bit of a history of Bluetooth niggles, hope version after 10.0.2 takes care of it.

kevin kee said:

Parts suppliers are sought around the phone design, not the other way round. How Mr Ive design is to create hundreds of prototype and starts from there in this order::
1. design
2. technology
3. engineering
4. suppliers
5. assembly

Although i recall - SJ liked the super tiny hard-drives ( toshiba i think) he basically offered it to his desgner ( outsourced at the time) & asked they worked an mp3 player around it. this with the click wheel was the first iPod.