AirPods 5 - Hacker News

Posted by awad 17 hours ago

AirPods 5(www.apple.com)

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bluerooibos 12 hours ago|

This is dirt cheap for Apple. Am I missing something?

gib444 3 hours ago|

The $100 iPhone price rises, the $20-40/yr Apple Care for iPhone price rise?

meindnoch 16 hours ago||

I hope they've made the metal contacts inside the case a bit sturdier, because I'm often getting one or both of my AirPods drained to 0% when I take them out of the case, due to contact issues (I assume).

mulderc 16 hours ago|

mostly likely you need to clean your case

meindnoch 16 hours ago||

Always do when this happens. I blow into it, and there's no visible dirt on the metal contacts either. Also, a friend of mine also reported the same for their AirPods Pro 2.

mulderc 12 hours ago|||

It is pretty hard to see in the case and what I found is even when it looked clean, when I used a tool to dig around a bit there was almost always some gunk in there causing the charging issues.

armadyl 15 hours ago|||

Honestly the most frustrating thing about the pros tbh.

b8 4 hours ago||

I wish they would support lossless audio. Like the Sony earbuds do with my Pixel.

yawnxyz 17 hours ago||

have they ever improved the charging system so the charging leads dont get gunked up?

I have a pair of airpod pro 2 and i have to scrape the leads almost every day

would be amazing if they did it thru induction charging (tho i guess thats really slow)

vachina 17 hours ago||

Im on my third pair of Airpods pro (replacement courtesy of Apple) and all of them had the ANC partially fail the longer i use them. I wonder why Apple still release new versions of these whem they cant even get the basics right.

nxc18 17 hours ago|||

Have you tried replacing your eartips? I find that radically improves performance - I think they must either get clogged or brittle in a way that causes problems.

Cheap foam eartips from Amazon are even better than stock for my AirPods Pro but they need to be replaced more often.

toxik 17 hours ago|||

Yep, I wonder why the ANC socialt is so fragile. Turns me off from buying new ones.

Toutouxc 17 hours ago|||

I’ve had them for 3,5 years now and off the top of my head I can’t remember where the “charging leads” are. So it’s safe to say that mine definitely don’t get gunked up.

groos 17 hours ago|||

Is that you, Shrek?

diroussel 17 hours ago||

They already do have inductive charging. Both MagSafe, Qi. They even work on the watch charger.

That’s for all AirPod Pros, and definitely the AirPod 4 with ANC, not sure about other non pros.

dylan604 16 hours ago||

There's definitely versions that do not work with all wireless chargers like the watch charger. Whatever older pair I have do not work with the watch charger

rootusrootus 15 hours ago||

How do these compare to the AirPods 4 ANC, I wonder? Hopefully not too much better given that I bought a pair of those about a month ago... :-/

MisterMunchkin 17 hours ago||

I wonder if they have an automation system which releases these perfectly in time with the video, or if they have some blog boy that has to post them at the right time.

wmeredith 16 hours ago||

A manual operation wouldn't shock me at all. A friend used to work on Apple.com and as recently as 5 years ago the product pages were still hard coded. No CMS.

bob1029 17 hours ago||

They have multiple fake product "labs" with which to use as sets simply for filming these videos. I am sure one or two FTEs is plausible.

leokennis 3 hours ago||

Now's as good a time as ever to ask this question.

I have an iPhone logged in to my iCloud account.

My wife has her iPhone logged in to her own iCloud account.

Both of these iCloud accounts, plus a few more from my kids, make up our "Apple Family" thingy.

My wife bought AirPods. Paired them to her iPhone.

Why oh why every few weeks, when she gets the AirPods from their case, do they automatically connect to my iPhone and steal the audio from my (non-Apple) wireless earbuds I was using?

Do AirPods truly traverse devices based on the fact that separate devices/iCloud accounts are part of a family?

jwrallie 3 hours ago||

I have exactly the same setup (two iPhones, a Moondrop Space Travel myself, wife has AirBuds, family account set up so we can buy apps only once). It never happened to us, but it happens frequently between my wife's iPhone and her iPad. I wonder if you have ever connected it to your phone even accidentally, it seems that this is remembered.

r1chard007 1 hour ago||

yes, this is annoying. On each device, you have to find the AirPods via the bluetooth settings and tell it to connect "when last connected" instead of "automatically"

yalogin 15 hours ago||

Isn’t Apple expected to release AirPods with cameras in them? Or may be the rumor is they are working on it?

browningstreet 12 hours ago||

AirPods won't stay in my ears at all (and an ear test practitioner who modeled my ears validated my experience -- he said my ear canals will never hold buds), so it's Shokz forever, for me.

jbethune 9 hours ago|

I think I'll stick with my pros. Definitely prefer the rubber tips for ear comfort over the plastic on the standard ones.

thenthenthen 8 hours ago|

Ah thats the one of the differences between standard and pro? The plastic ones literally fall/creep out of my ears… without even moving (losing a lot of sound/volume in the process)

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