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eriamjh said:

My AirPods are dying.  Daily use for 2 years has rendered them to get 1hr of music and 30m of phone calls.  Resets, forgetting, re-pairing, etc. all no effect.  

I need new ones and won’t buy with a new design on the horizon.  

brucemc said:

geekmee said:

Who said AirPods 2 where going to be $200??....
I could easily see Apple selling both AirPods, one for $99 and the newest for $160.

With a wireless charging case and additional functionality, I don't think the new model would sell for same as old.  Likely $199.

Hopefully the current version remains and reduced to perhaps $129ish.  The battery with my current ones is starting to degrade (I purchased right before Christmas in 2016, so just over 2 years old).  While I would like these rumoured new ones, with the Canadian exchange rate, they will no doubt be over $300 CAD.

I can understand why people would complain but generally you are charging overnight and fast charge is completely unnecessary. 

That being said, if you forget to plug-in before bed, you are put in a spot where a fast charge option would be nice in some situations. 

Most vehicles have a USB-A port in them now and you can keep a cable in there to charge on your commute or most people have an extra cable at the office or carry a power bank. 

I can see both sides of the argument but generally people do not need fast charge.

k2kw said:

bitmod said:

wood1208 said:

4 years replacement cycle sounds unreasonable. People go at most 2 1/2 to 3 years most.

Had an X - hated the .42 cent speaker they put in it so I went back to the far superior sounding iPhone 6. I miss the screen, camera and responsiveness of the X - but my 6 has higher quality audio and is fast enough for average use. Replaced the battery and now I’ll wait for Apple to get their heads out of their ass and release another quality phone at a reasonable price. I paid $200 for my 6. Paid $1800 for the X. I can’t stress enough how not worth the money the X is. Maybe at $600... but $1800... lol, never again.

One of the sad things about the iPhone and smartphones in general is how the public's appreciation has been dumbed down over they years by these tiny speakers.    Its just physics.

I do remember at one time that when Apple came out with their new phone several years ago that the audio sounded muted due to the waterproofing.      It seems like since then Apple has slowly been trying to get their audio a little better to a point.   With so many of their listeners switching to the AirPods they probably don't feel the need to improve the audio in the phone that much.   Its "Pay an extra $160 for these buds so that you can listen to the same level of crappy audio that we used to give you for free".

It's not surprising that Apple cheapend down their internal audio hardware.   I liken it to the lower quality retina display that they released on the XR compared to the 8Plus.   They did the same thing a few years ago with their camera when they went from an 8 MP in the iphone 6 to the 12 MP in the iphone 6S.     The camera did get better in the XR do to the bigger sensor but only because they paid for it with the cheaper phone.   Its the same trick they basically pulled with the switch to the cheaper Intel modems.

Thanks for the warning about the iPhone X.   Maybe they will put a decent dac in it some day.     Of course Apple could really surprise some people and return the headphone jack to the phone.   I'm holding out for real real innovation like Solid State Batteries before I upgrade.   Having tried to kill off their competition from QualComm I think it will be at least 3 or 4 years before Apple has a decent 5G modem.

 

felix01 said:

Yep, I've certainly slowed down my upgrade cycle. I'd always upgraded every two years but now that the phones are costing $1K+, I'm figuring on keeping my iPhone X for three years, maybe even four unless Apple comes up with something I can't live without. Even if I have to put in a new battery, it'll be cost effective if the alternative is a thousand dollar phone which doesn't do anything significantly better than my iPhone X.