..and when those Bluetooth headphones are AirPods, it’s very easy to never look back.
I do a fair bit of work with Logic and Ableton and consider myself reasonably advanced when it comes to audio production. When I am doing recording or mixing on my Mac, the built-in headphone jack is never used: it’s always a fairly high end audio interface. Since AirPods, I can’t remember the last time I actually plugged into the Mac’s headphone jack: it’s either using “pro” headphones via the audio interface or AirPods.
While I can appreciate the headphone-jack vitriol on iPhone, I can’t help but drawing parallels with the ditching of the DVD drive. At the time that happened, people were losing their minds for a variety of similar reasons. I used to own mixers that only took 1/4inch plugs and remember to have a 1/8inch adaptor was a real pain, however it just became commonplace. My point is that having a lightning to 1/8th adaptor is no bigger of a deal than having a 1/8->1/4 inch adaptor.
On the other hand, everyone but Apple seems to have this obsession with having their earbuds plug my ear canals (even if they're not "noise isolating" earbuds), in a way I find deeply uncomfortable.
The AirPods (and Apple's regular earbuds) might not fit every ear, but at least, for the ears they do fit, they fit without a sensation of having something jammed in your ear.
Ideally, Apple (or someone) would just make such non-intrusive earbuds in a few different form-factors, for the three or four most common ear shapes, rather than one-size-fits-all. As it is, though, Apple seems to be the only company making non-intrusive earbuds at all.
Question - have you tried the airpods themselves? Because they weigh far less I know people who always had Apple ear pods fall out have no issues with AirPods.
And remember - other wireless headphone manufacturers are available, Beats do over ear ones that use the same W1 chip (super simple pairing with mac devices).
I must be in the small % of people with ears that don’t work for AirPods. My right ear doesn’t hold it and if I’m moving at all (walking) it’ll fall out.
I wish they made in ear phones like the shure style ear phones - even Apple’s old design was better for me.
I do a fair bit of work with Logic and Ableton and consider myself reasonably advanced when it comes to audio production. When I am doing recording or mixing on my Mac, the built-in headphone jack is never used: it’s always a fairly high end audio interface. Since AirPods, I can’t remember the last time I actually plugged into the Mac’s headphone jack: it’s either using “pro” headphones via the audio interface or AirPods.
While I can appreciate the headphone-jack vitriol on iPhone, I can’t help but drawing parallels with the ditching of the DVD drive. At the time that happened, people were losing their minds for a variety of similar reasons. I used to own mixers that only took 1/4inch plugs and remember to have a 1/8inch adaptor was a real pain, however it just became commonplace. My point is that having a lightning to 1/8th adaptor is no bigger of a deal than having a 1/8->1/4 inch adaptor.