[sandworm101]

>> having wireless headphones is awesome. I haven’t missed my wired headphones at all since I got galaxy buds+ with 11hr per use.

No. Wireless buds are evil. They get lost. They loose battery life over time, usually asymmetrically. And then there is the horror of "pairing" Bluetooth devices without a proper interface, holding buttons down and such. I love my Sony over-ear noise cancelling headphones, but when away from my desk I opt for wired devices every time.

[ToucanLoucan]

Honestly I would've agreed with you wholeheartedly at the time they took away the jack, but several years on, I'm good with it. I've owned both the original AirPods and the original PowerBeats and now have a Sony WX headset for when I don't need buds. I've lost one... I left it on the hood of my car, unfortunately, my own damn fault and I was able to get a replacement ordered from Apple. Apart from that, never lost em, and in the odd event I forget to charge them, putting the powerbeats at least on a USB lead for about 5 minutes will get me roughly 70% charge into both beats, even if the case is dead, which is enough for several hours of playback time.

I thought I would miss it, but I genuinely just don't give a shit about the lack of audio jack.

[scarface_74]

Horror of pairing? You mean you don’t just open your case, click a button on one of your devices and it’s not automatically paired to all of your devices connected to your login?

[jayknight]

My problems with bluetooth pairing tends to be with bluetooth speakers and cars. Cranking up the car and all of a sudden being on the phone with whoever my wife (in the house) is on a call with is pretty weird.

[HideousKojima]

Also my car prioritizes connecting to my phone even though my wife is usually the "DJ" on a drive. And disconnecting my phone after we've already started driving means my wife has to get my phone out of my pocket/lap and turn off Bluetooth since the car offers no simple way to do so other than outright unpairing my phone.

[jayknight]

That rough, our cars (both 2010s Toyotas) give a way to switch between phones, but it's about 4 button presses and 20 seconds to do that. It seems a car should be be capable enough to have multiple phones connected, and they would all just appear as sources you could switch between. Some probably do, but obviously no 2010s Toyotas.

[scarface_74]

Yeah Thad’s definitely a thing. Reason #3462 I won’t buy a car that doesn’t support CarPlay

[sandworm101]

"automatically paired" = waiting a random 5/10/15 seconds before all three devices agree to talk to each other. Then one of the three gets angry at the other two and I end up listening to music in my left ear as the little girl in my right ear says "pairing" and "disconnected" every few seconds.

[scarface_74]

That’s why I have AirPods (expensive) and Beats Flex (disposable $69). Those aren’t issues I deal with between my iPhone, iPad, Mac, AppleTV and Apple Watch…

[graphe]

You sound emotional. Wired headphones are sometimes cheaper and may sound better. They are not immune to loss, asymmetry, or horrors such as pulling your phone when it’s snagged and causing your phone to drop.