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So get AirPod Pros and be done with it. Watching a show in bed, you won’t have cables tangling up. You won’t be frustrated with trying to listen to music while charging your phone on a train. You’ll have a much better experience overall. Futurama isn’t streaming at some audiophile deluxe level of audio quality, so whatever wired headphones you are using aren’t going to beat AirPods Pro for the purposes you’ve mentioned.

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I am not willing to spend $250 to solve a problem that Apple willfully introduced. I am also not willing to spend $250 on a product with a usable lifetime of 18 months max.

I hear a lot about the inconvenience of wired headphones, but as a daily user of wired headphones, that's not something I experience. And it certainly doesn't outweigh the costs (financial and environmental) of switching to Apple's disposable wireless headphones.

Use any other pair of bluetooth headphones on get lightning wired headphones or use the headphone dongle.

I was annoyed when Apple initially got rid of the headphone jack but I've been without it for quite some time now and it's not really a bother. Even if you have to charge while having the wired headphones in, there is a dongle for that. I suppose if that's a very frequent use case, I can see the annoyance.

My last iPhone that had the headphone jack required frequent cleaning of the jack or else it would get clogged with accumulated dust and make the speaker very quiet.

I use hook earphones at night [0], haven't found any wireless ones, but even if I did I'd have to keep them charged which seems like a retrograde step.

The downsides of "AirPods Pro"

1) They go in my ear, which is uncomfortable

2) They need charging

3) They presumably are trivial to lose

4) They cost about 50 times as much as hook earphones.

> Watching a show in bed, you won’t have cables tangling up

I don't have cables tangling up.

> You won’t be frustrated with trying to listen to music while charging your phone on a train

I'm not, because I have a jack on my phone and I don't use bluetooth and thus suffer from deciding which host they should be connected to at any given time

[0] https://www.teknistore.com/en/on-ear-and-over-ear-headphones...

They're not quite as easy to lose as you would think. Since they're so easy to cary around (rounded, small case), you don't end up putting them in strange places and it's not a problem to just keep them in your pocket.

This is the workflow when I want to watch something at night while I fall asleep. It would get lost in the sheets, or under the bed, or similar.

That doesn't happen to my £5 ear phone because it's connected to my phone, which itself is connected to the mains.

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