in-ear cameras. Didn’t even have this on my bingo card
Endlessly asking AI what to do will cause people to lose the ability to think analytically.
That’s already the case, time to make it worse
I hope they will be banned in EU.
Wait, isn’t the EU generally chock full of surveillance? Including some member countries going so far as to have facial recognition as a norm?
England especially
England isn’t part of the EU.
lol I forgot about that
Not really, no.
Everyone’s losing their shit over an additional sensor. Does everyone think their phone is constantly recording video because it has a camera on it, the same with the microphone? Laptops?
Maybe if it was Meta? I don’t think Apple’s business model incentivises personally identifiable spying or keeping any recordings outside of their standard analytics and “improvements” model.
They have been caught being pretty ham fisted with using third parties to process this data (eg. Siri recordings), so I wouldn’t put it past them for any of these anonymised recordings to fall into anyone’s hands really, but that’s why you can now turn them off.
Which I would immediately do. I would never buy these anyway, and it sounds like a terrible idea, but some of this freaking out is giving them way too much credit.
Yes. Maybe not constantly, but without your consent.
If the 3 letter agencies are telling you to cover your webcam and Aliexpress is starting to sell phone and tablet camera cover stickers then I fully believe it’s a problem.
Fuck.
Anyone know of any good headphones that have the airpod in-ear shape? (Like these)
Hate the Skullcandy style with the shitty rubber nubs, those hurt my ears. (Like these)
But that’s all anyone makes now other than airpods non-pro and cheap shitty airpod knockoffs (but I still want halfway decent headphones.)
No it isn’t “just the wrong size” don’t bother with that, I just have way too tight ear pussies and I need it to rest outside the hole like the first pic.
You’re right, I also prefer this shape but couldn’t find a good one. I’m using Sony WF-1000XM5 now and am quite happy with them, but it would be better if they made this shape
They have at least 3 models for sale at any given time, last I checked. I can’t imagine they’d make all of them like this, as surely these will be dramatically more costly to produce and are likely to chug on batteries compared to the others. I think you will be safe for now, and the bubble will have burst by the generation after that, since it is already on borrowed time.
I wish you the best of like finding them, but I genuinely think you’re on the minority of the market. I upgraded from the first to the second and the original pods physically hurt my ears wedging a bit of hard plastic into soft tissue
I imagine they’ll still sell the non-camera version.
In that case I’ll be fine, but tbh I’d like better ones anyway were they to exist.
I really like the ear-loop style so that they don’t have to be jammed into my ear canal. They (and the accompanying case) are slightly larger, but I find them much more comfortable and no concerns about them falling out even when moving around a lot.
I’m very particular about what goes into my ear as well.
You can probably still find the older airpods.
For now.
Firmware update to only work with iTunes w/ 30 second ads every 2-5 minutes.
Its Apple, so maybe not ads in the firmware update, just a little under clocking maybe!
Oooooh! Half second lag between left & right!
I don’t know if there’s a proper name for it but most companies doing Earbuds also have models without the rubber nubs just like the first picture.
If only I could find them lol. I you have any specific brands to look for I desperately need them, afaik bose, sennheiser, grado, beats, those podcast ones, all do the inside the hole thing. Bose has some weird clip ones but I can’t justify spending $200 on them to see if they’ll work for me when they very well may not.
Nothing also do some. Nothing Ear (Stick)
However I’m not sure if they are currently being produced, they do some open, over ear buds however; they all have the rubbish pinch gestures vs the old touch from the AirPods 1 / 2.
Ooh thank you these could also work!
Just the other day me and a friend were talking about this and we found the JBL Tune Flex 2.
Are they good? No clue. But they are the right shape. JBL has some other models too.
That wording “$109.95 each” makes it sound like you have to buy left and right separately
Dude I might actually grab a pair of these for my next, thank you so much! JBL is good enough for me, not the best but their speakers run well and sound alright, and that’s perfect!
I just wanted to let you know, I’ve used the JBL Tune 225TWS for years and they still work. Like you said, definitely not the best, but good enough while I’m on a bus or something.
I even still have my Tune220TWS, which are older, but they also still work. The only reason I stopped using those was because they still use micro-USB and my last cable broke. All I had left were USB-C (due to the EU law that made it universal).
tl;dr: they might not be the best sound quality, but their devices last a long time. I’ve even dropped mine a few times and they survived it.
Finally, someone solved the age old problem of ears not seeing well enough
Fuck right off, dipshits.
What really sucks about this is that there’s a version of us in the infinite multiverses where these companies and politicians develop and maintain trust so that we can actually benefit from some of these innovations without just feeling paranoid and taken advantage of, but instead, in their hubris, they make us hate them and their tech.
This is the truth. I got a free Oura ring and I would love to try it, but they’re in bed with palantir. Fuck that.
So many interesting developments, but I’m unwilling to sell my soul to the devil to try them. What a dream it would be to use them without worrying that they’re going to sell every possible bit of data about me to the lowest bidder.
If its any consolation, nearly all new tech gadgets are shit anymore, still more are neat for a bit then slowly turn to shit in time, and others get abandoned and become theater props.
If your fear you’re missing out, I assure you that is merely a perception, and you’d be disappointed if you tried most of that stuff. In my experience, any new tech in the past 10+ years that looked interesting ended up looking less interesting the more I learned about it, to the point I was actively disinterested before I was even done with my research on it.
I can literally throw a rock outside and hit someone in the head wearing some type of headphones. There are tons of options out there.
AirPods aren’t impressive and Apple isn’t focused on exciting their customers like they were a decade ago. My old Apple Watch died recently and I replaced it with another brand. Be loyal to Apple the same way they are loyal to you.
Note: This is frowned upon.
Oh, brilliant! This is exactly what I wanted and directly solves so many problems and frustrations I have with the status quo! Thank goodness for such innovation! I feel seen!
Edit: oops, that should say “I hope everyone involved in bringing this product to market gets given an STI by a hippopotamus”. Silly autocorrect.
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Yeah, because I really want my fucking headphones recording video.
I think most people won’t be worrying about their own headphones.
Very true.
Or people walking around me with their camera headphones pointed at me even when they don‘t realize it. Fucking love this big brother economy.
The AirPods’ cameras “aren’t designed” to snap photos or video but instead can take in “visual information in low resolution” that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.
So you got to hover that leek next to your ears? Nice they are low resolution but if they can recognise something sitting on a kitchen counter in front of you then that is not a relevant argument. They can 100% be used to identify people standing in front of you as well and that is going to be outside anyones control.
that is going to be outside anyones control.
Apple could theoretically lock it down [for a period of time] but darn—you made me realize the clones will have real cameras and look 1:1 before long
…lol “Siri, verify nearby AirPods” (…then the bad guy keeps a real pair activated nearby? and it’s back to creepy)
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This may be a first of its kind hardware issue for Apple, unless I’m forgetting something
That shit illegal in states that have recording laws. Someone needs to sue.
States as in US? Because if that’s the case, this won’t be illegal in any way shape or form.
I don’t understand why people think there is some law out there that supersedes the first amendment which unambiguously protects video recording in anything other than a bathroom, changing room, or the like.
Even in private property doesn’t have a law stating you can’t record, it’s just that you are likely to be trespassed if you break a private establishments no recording policy.
And the footage itself doesn’t even become illegal even when the trespass was in fact illegal, I heard - can’t require deletion I think? (Of course the property owner or their associates might be bigger than you!)
They probably are designed for low resolution because Apple couldn’t mass produce better cameras affordably. Plus there is other hardware they don’t have space for.
This will most likely follow the iPhone camera business model where new model AirPods will keep getting upgraded cameras.
Apple is also developing smart glasses and an AI pendant that could launch as soon as early 2027, according to Gurman.
Nobody asked for this. This AI push is stagnating innovation.
Also, link is paywalled. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theverge.com/tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production
This AI push is stagnating innovation.
I think it’s the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple’s latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.
Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.
The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.
So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.
they saw the outrage at meta glasses and decided “I need this”
Why is this shit legal…
Ewwwww.
