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Personally have never liked the sealed ear buds as the seals usually do not fit correctly. More importantly though, most of the time I need the ability to listen to the ambient noise around me to catch other people talking to me or hearing announcements like train stops.

The sealed off from the world feeling is usually only useful when concentrating on a task and that is pretty rare.

I like them because they are the only headphones I can sleep on my side while they are still in and not hurt. I've got expensive headphones for listening, the ear pods are good enough for listening while laying down.

yes sleeping has been a challenge with earbuds. usually keep only 1 in the non pillow ear. Will test it with originals if i can find them somewhere :)

The Apple ad claimed they are the most comfortable headphones ever made ;) They're ok.