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Johnw1104 on 22 September 2016
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irstupid said:
ultima said:

Haven't watched the video either, nor have I used their new lightning headphones, but back when I had an iPod and insisted on using Apple headphones for style, I remember being completely mind blown by the difference in sound quality when I got to try out headphones that were about the same price. I eventually realized that you can get better quality headphones for about $10. While I generally believe that all Apple products are overpriced, their peripherals in particular are horrendous for what they cost.

Oh and as for the video, they also mention the new heaphones do not let you skip forward by double tapping. Which I'm pretty sure apple might have made popular, and most all wireless headphones do now. But there are some amazing sounding wireless buds that do stay in anyones ear for the same price as these things. And there are wired ones that sound even better than all the above and cheaper still. And again with various methods of staying in ones ear, whether that is around the ear holding, vaious rubber size buds, or the inside the ear rubber shaped things. 

The point is, if anyone wants anything sound quality, as you said, you would not use apples stock headphones (stock headphones $160 is a joke), but another brand. And as someone above pointed out, you can't charge and listen at same time. 

I'm sure people will come in and say "when do you charge and listen at same time" just as people defend sony for no UHD player, saying it's for gaming.

But my sister was going to get the 7. She is an apple person. But when she heard no headphone jack, she decided not to, because that is what she uses in her car. She hooks up it to her car stereo. Yes she can use adapter, but then she can't use the charger. And that is one major incentive when in a car. You can charge you phone whiel using it. Whether it's the music streaming or using it for GPS. People like to charge phones in their car. 

I hadn't considered that car problem, my car just has a usb port so it charges and plays music simultaneously (I believe that's becoming a common feature of cars). Hopefully a 3rd party splitter comes along sooner rather than later.

I can't really tell myself what everyone has against these ear buds so far, they seem to sound great. It's funny as we're arguing over overpriced hardware, and yet to me one of the more consistently, grossly overpriced areas of hardware in electronics are ear buds and headphones, especially when the differences aren't terribly obvious unless you're a real music enthusiast. I suspect these will please the large majority of people who use them, at least as far as capabilities go.

I'm just looking forward to seeing how long it takes for some 3rd party to come up with a connecting band for the wireless earbuds the way they do for the back of sunglasses haha... wouldn't that look cool.