it was a very very short period of time. But there was a time where people were made fun of for talking to themselves with little white stubs sticking out of their ear. It's an interesting read through the initial airpod announcement thread on reddit.
Some of my favorite comments. Pretty crazy that people didn't really understand wireless earbuds while today they're taken for granted.
"Cigarettes in my ears"
"They forgot that people are less likely to adopt new technologies that make them look stupid."
"Yeah, they should at least be able to strap to each other."
"My feeling on these headphones is entirely contingent on sound quality. As it is, I could get a pair of bluetooth headphones from Audio Technica for under 100$."
"The only user interface is by tapping the AirPods to talk to Siri, even to adjust the volume. No thanks."
"I don't see any consumer base other than die hard apple fans that can use these pair of head phones, earphones or whatever they are called.
Runners would definitely not buy these as there is a high risk of them falling out of the ears.
Even for a regular person there a huge risk of running into one another making the earphones fall and stepping on them.
Interesting scenario would be when 2 airpods users run into one another and damage their devices and then sit over a coffee just to discuss how foolish decision they made buying this piece of shit."
And then Nostradamus showed up in the comments
"It looks like the kind of thing people will mock before they use it and then when they use it they'll realize that it's actually pretty good overall and everyone will just kind of simmer down about the whole thing."
https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/51mxn5/the_new_airpo...
Some of my favorite comments. Pretty crazy that people didn't really understand wireless earbuds while today they're taken for granted.
"Cigarettes in my ears"
"They forgot that people are less likely to adopt new technologies that make them look stupid."
"Yeah, they should at least be able to strap to each other."
"My feeling on these headphones is entirely contingent on sound quality. As it is, I could get a pair of bluetooth headphones from Audio Technica for under 100$."
"The only user interface is by tapping the AirPods to talk to Siri, even to adjust the volume. No thanks."
"I don't see any consumer base other than die hard apple fans that can use these pair of head phones, earphones or whatever they are called.
Runners would definitely not buy these as there is a high risk of them falling out of the ears.
Even for a regular person there a huge risk of running into one another making the earphones fall and stepping on them.
Interesting scenario would be when 2 airpods users run into one another and damage their devices and then sit over a coffee just to discuss how foolish decision they made buying this piece of shit."
And then Nostradamus showed up in the comments
"It looks like the kind of thing people will mock before they use it and then when they use it they'll realize that it's actually pretty good overall and everyone will just kind of simmer down about the whole thing."