My $400 Bose headphones have worse range than my cheap MPow headphones. Perhaps whatever great thought Bose puts in doesn't result in great products....
Using a bluetooth audio dongle can significantly extends the range. My Bose would starts stuttering at ~4m range, but after using a bluetooth audio dongle, it basically cover the whole house now (>10m radius).
Like it or not, we aren't talking hifi and you may not love their specific coloration but the audio quality per form factor and price of bose bluetooth speakers is quite great compared to alternatives. I mean there are certainly better ones obviously but my soundlink revolve and my soundlink micro are much better than the models from other brands they replaced. Reliability however may be a different thing but I have not treated them very kindly to say the least.
I also bought a Bose noise cancelling headset 2y ago and I would say it is quite good, I think the only great alternatives in the same price range are from Sony, the Yamaha, Apple ones are much more expensive. Maybe other decent alternatives would be from technics or sennheiser?
In my opinion Bose performs only slightly better than the cheapest crap and only has a moderately better build quality, yet at a (near) premium price range. I think their products are barely worth half the money they ask for it.
But this is my opinion on Bose in general and not this specific product range. Personally I cant stand Bluetooth audio for anything else but background noise. I'm still amazed how a 192kbs mp3 can sound better with 5 euro earplugs compared to a 200+ euro Bluetooth headset with aptX support.
Eventually it doesn't matter at all, if you are happy with their product(s) and consider it money well spend, then who am I to judge.
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amiga-workbench 51 minutes ago
The most grating "feature" of Bluetooth is having headphones that support fancy AAC/AptX codecs, but as soon as you want to make use of its microphone it dumps the connection right back to A2DP.
The Twitter lawsuit against Elon is a different thing than the acquisition contract they agreed on.
The damages that Twitter can claim from this new lawsuit are not bound by the clauses of said contract.
Although, in this case, they just want the deal to go forward, at any moment Twitter could say "your marketing stint, or whatever that was, has cost us $X billion and we want compensation for that" and they have grounds for it.
One of the advantages startups have is higher risk tolerance than branded megacorporations. Data, customers, brand, employees, law suits, or cynically, human lives.
The risk is being managed at the VC/investor level, by diversifying investment bets over numerous early ventures.
The death of any one of those isn't a concern for the VC, if the portfolio performance is sufficient. Of course, for the individual venture and employees, that risk is disaggregated.
More rigorous systems practices are seen as an impediment to early growth with any potential problems either something that can be ironed out later, or simply a post-liquidation concern that doesn't factor into the investors' interests at all.
For a laptop, I see diminishing returns at 3200x1800. That's as low as I'm go. 4k is preferred and now common. I don't need more.
Ironically, almost all phones I look at have more pixels than I need. Laptops are only recently easily available with reasonable pixel density. For a while, common phones had higher resolution (not just density) than laptops.
One of the differences is you c can liver in the investment. This means either not paying rent or collecting rent. The appreciation might be lower than the stock market but dividends are less than rent too.
This is fascinating. Out also explains why a vaccination might stop long COVID -- flooding the body with antibodies could drive out a latent infection.
Microsoft should make this service free for open source (not just thought leaders), and compensate people otherwise. I should have a 0.01% equity in Open AI if they're using my stuff like this.
Half serious/flippant, we need MS to create a cryptocurrency so that developers can be credited with micropayments each time their code gets “quoted” in the IDE.
I feel like there's an adequate market for a phone case with a high quality headphone jack, extended battery, sd slot, etc. It shouldn't more than double the thickness
I have a recent Nokia that has all of the above. Except for maybe the "high quality" part, I'm not sure if the phone or aging headphones are to blame there. But the battery is a monster, though not replaceable. There seem to be plenty of others on the market.
I have joined the bluetooth headset world though, shokz openrun finally had a compelling feature set that I couldn't find with wired headphones.
There used to be a market for battery cases that were double thickness but that pretty much dried up when phone batteries became good enough and chargers charged in minutes rather than hours.
It's almost like features like card slots in smartphones are not particularly important to the mass market!
The discussion on HN when headphone jacks come up is always quite amusing. The market has demonstrated now for years that removing headphone jacks from phones is a perfectly reasonable decision for a manufacturer to make. I wonder how much longer HN commenters will keep insisting that it's a terrible mistake.
> It's almost like features like card slots in smartphones are not particularly important to the mass market!
No shit most users don't care about this. If they did phones would still have sdcard slots. There is _A_ market for devices with sdcard slots however. It's not the biggest one but it's sizable for sure.
It could still lose with Apple branding - we heard people online complain for years about how phones are too big, Apple finally released an iPhone Mini and by all accounts it's not selling well and will not be renewed.
Customers don't necessarily have a choice in the matter, they'll buy what's available because it's a life requirement. This is really the kind of thing that needs government clamp down
There are a wide variety of phones available with and without headphone jacks. There's no reason the government needs to intervene. The ones without headphone jacks are, as far as I can tell, much more popular. I don't really consider it when selecting a phone, since I don't care one way or the other (I haven't used the jack in years, but it doesn't hurt me if the phone has it), but most of the phone I've owned recently haven't had one.
In these respects, to me, it feels similar to PS/2 ports, floppy drives, optical disk drives, USB-A ports, or any other number of previously-useful things that many computers no longer have. A bunch of people get upset when you remove any feature, no matter what, while the majority don't care very much, and after a short while it's completely normal to not have the legacy feature.
I don't think any of those are offensive to defense contractors, etc. Polarizing the public on these issues is exactly the way to haves the public turn a blind eye took graft.
She said this never happens. This happened all the time. It's just that she was the first scientist to take the honest route and do a retraction rather than letting it slip. I'm impressed with her integrity, but surprised by her naivete.
She is not the first scientist to fess to a mistake. Heck, one of my colleagues went through the same thing last year, and he also did the right thing, and other scientists also appreciated his open honesty about the matter, even though his mistake meant the retraction of a high impact article.
