[whynotminot]

Yeah, these kind of people are the worst in any kind of product ideation session. Nothing is ever worth doing to them because all they do is point out minute flaws the whole time. Contrarianism taken to a level beyond useful devils advocate.

The other obnoxious thing here is that he thinks he’s being novel? Like Apple hasn’t considered any of these points over this headset’s near decade-long gestation period?

Ultimately though I’ll at least give him credit for putting himself out here so publicly. Plenty of people are harboring private doubts, but he’s setting himself up here for potential posterity, up there with all the people who said the original iPhone would be a failure.