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Apple may not include EarPods headphones in iPhone 12 box to boost AirPods sales

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3 pointsjedberg7 comments

This was a really great environmentally friendly move, even if it wasn't intentional. Usually my unboxing ritual for a new iPhone is to take out the horribly uncomfortable EarPods and slam-dunk them into the trash. I don't understand why they need to make their earbuds so uncomfortable, but I'm glad they're giving up on them.

If you care about the environment, why don't you donate the headphones to someone who does use them but had their break?

I've only met one person who actually expressed satisfaction with Apple's wired ear buds, and he made sure to keep them. Aside from that one guy, most people I talk to on the subject do the same thing I do and dispose of them.

To elaborate on why they're bad:

- They fit poorly

- Their sound quality is terrible (likely due to the bad fit and resulting lack of sound isolation)

- Most importantly, they're physically painful to me after about five minutes of wear, like shoving a brick in my ear. Same reason I was shocked when AirPods took off, because they're the same shape and the same awful fit

> Most importantly, they're physically painful to me after about five minutes of wear, like shoving a brick in my ear. Same reason I was shocked when AirPods took off, because they're the same shape and the same awful fit

The AirPods really do hurt like the EarPods, but I followed some instructions[0] to make them better and now I can wear them for hours.

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/airpods-poor-fit-fixed....

I don't mind, I never used them and I feel like most people I know didn't either. That said, they're sold separately for $29 which seems a bit steep, so hopefully they'll get a price drop for the people who do want them.

I never used those headphones anyway, because I have my own much better pair of wired headphones.

But I use my lightening to minijack adaptor all the time. Do they still include those?

Hidden price increase. Just making your cereal package smaller and charging you no less.

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