Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Apple’s AirPods
Chris Messina
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Bollocks!

I’ve never used that word before, but I just did. I guess that qualifies me as a brilliant innovator. Maybe Apple will hire me?

On to matters at hand. a) on the dorkiness scale, no object in the current tech cycle can compete with the airpods. They look preposterous.

b) only dorks want to have conversations with Siri, which gets the simplest instructions wrong 100% of the time:

You: Siri — can you check my email?

Siri: I’m sorry. I can’t find Call Me Ishmael

You: Siri—is there a gas station nearby?

Siri: I’m sorry. I’m not finding a house of assignation.

What you WANT to do is to temporarily tune out the crummy world of useless technology and listen to Henri Dutilleaux’s L’Arbre Des Songes or Webern’s 5 Pieces for Orchestra or the new Ben Monder album, but guess what? You can’t do that through a decent pair of Senheisers any more. Instead, you have to use Apple’s crappy little plastic pieces of crap.

What do you young folks like to say? Epic FAIL?