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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3016 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Apple Plug

Actually, you are full of shit.

Wired headphones are great if you want to hear your music. Bluetooth is great if you want it to cut out every ten minutes, or every time you touch the volume control, or every time you get a phone call, or every time the moon is in aquarius. Bluetooth is also great if you want your headphones to run out before your phone, or if you want a device that can discharge in a drawer because you haven't used it in a week, or because your car was too hot.

Let's talk about ADC connectors.

That's apple eliminating the "required" power and USB cables in an effort to "move technology forward." But as it turns out, you can't spit a monitor's worth of power down 30-gage wiring and USB interferes with high-bandwidth video. Six years of that bullshit - it came out the same time as the G4 Cube's magical mystical "electrical disturbances cause me to power down" capacitive power switch.

Hey, how 'bout the Dock Connector?

Yeah. Apple's "universal" connector includes bidirectional audio, two flavors of analog video, 3.3V DC power, 5V DC power, 12V DC power, Firewire data, USB data and two channels of serial control. All to guarantee that if you actually want to interface with any of that shit, you have to suck down Apple's proprietary connector.

Know what I use? Koss fitclips. Know why? cuz I sweat them out every six weeks. Which is fine 'cuz they cost $14 and don't require a fucking ADC to listen to music. And I'm not even listening to music most of the time - I'm listening to 128k audiobooks. FUCK fidelity I want something that I can wrap around the goddamn spokes and not give a shit about. And that's what I got. I also like being able to buy charging cables two for a dollar off Amazon.

But I got the fuck out of Apple three years ago.

"Consistently right."

Yeah - all headphones consistently suck... but only Apple will charge you $169 for them.





goobster  ·  3016 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Actually, you are full of shit.

Seriously? I make all the points you make - Bluetooth sucks, wires suck, headphone UX sucks, and (right now) you have to have wires to have good audio - and then you make the same point?

    Yeah - all headphones consistently suck...

Oh right. You are upset about me mentioning that Apple pushes stagnating markets forward with "terrible" ideas... like removing floppy drives, or making color screens the default, or built-in Ethernet, or ... ah fuck it. I put the word "Apple" in the first sentence, so now your ears are turned off.

Eh. Nevermind.

kleinbl00  ·  3016 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well hang on, now. Your point was that Apple has been "consistently right" for 30 years, and said that anyone who disagreed was a "fucking moron." Further, you're arguing that headphones without connectors are somehow better.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get the router working differently because I my Ethernet-free Macbook is having trouble connecting to the network.

coffeesp00ns  ·  3016 days ago  ·  link  ·  

man, my macbook loses connectivity to my router at LEAST twice a day.

cgod  ·  3014 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think my longest PC up time on the network in the past few years is about 6 months and I'm guessing it was Comcast's fault that I disconnected.