[tabiv]

That's a huge bummer. They were the last manufacterer to care about audio quality. I'd love to not have to buy a dedicated audio player to listen to my music.

[karmakaze]

Yup. After I had a G6, I couldn't go back to anything less. Now using a G8. If you know/find a good successor would love to hear about it.

Edit: Hmm, checking my statement.. Yeah, that's my experience, nothing to change.

[offtop5]

I'm a bit split here, I've never had a good experience with an LG phone. At the same time there aren't all that many oems left, so with everyone that's lost, that's less from.

[orf]

Apple doesn't care about audio quality?

[bsder]

They sell Beats, no?

That should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality.

Hint: They don't. Obviously Apple doesn't want to make audio complete garbage, but any audio quality you get from Apple is a secondary consideration to pretty much any other criteria--design, form factor, fashion, etc.

[orf]

LG sell fridges, that should tell you everything you need to know about whether they care about audio quality.

[bsder]

I gave you an example of an Apple product with known garbage audio quality.

And you compared it to a refrigerator.

Sorry. My brain is clearly insufficient to understand your hyper-advanced reasoning.

[orf]

My fridge has garbage audio quality. It’s made by LG. Therefore LG doesn’t care about audio quality.

It’s not hard to understand. It’s your argument after all.

[alexvoda]

I would actually counter that with the fact that a fridge has audio at all, already places it ahead of most products it its category in terms of audio quality.

On the other hand maybe silence is superior.

[stu2b50]

What are you talking about.

If anything, if you have such disdain for Beats, you should applaud Apple, since they killed the product.

Apple acquihired Beats to build Apple Music with the industry connections, and since then, Dr. Dre left the company to do whatever, and they have completely neglected Beats as a brand for headphones.

Now it's in some weird place where the AirPods are the premium brand and Beats are this weird, budget athleisure brand that they never advertise and will probably kill soon.

[gridder]

They sell Beats? What? It’s like judging McDonalds from a vegan burger made by Beyond Meat. You should try a stereo paired homepods and then judge Apple sound quality..... Hint: it’s very good.

[bluefirebrand]

Apple's not a smartphone manufacturer it is a lifestyle brand. If you aren't buying the lifestyle you're not their customer.

Which is most people.

[orf]

Ok sure but they are also one of the major smartphone manufacturers

[bluefirebrand]

That's not the point.

The point is people who don't buy into the Apple brand don't even consider it as an option.

Not the way someone looking for a phone will consider the options between Motorola, LG, Samsung, etc.

The fact that Apple manufactures Apple products is much more important than what those products are.

[orf]

Ok sure but when you open with “one of the largest smartphone manufacturers is actually not a smartphone manufacturer” its kind of hard to hear anything else you’re saying.

[vmception]

so do they care about audio quality or not?

I made it this far in the thread and keep reading irrelevant deflections

[aejnsn]

I honestly just wear my AirPods Max as a lifestyle choice. /s