But your prejudice is clearly expressed.

Bose charges a shit-load more for their gear than Apple and I notice that Bose equipment works with Android and PC's as well. Is the cost of Bose's equipment Apple's fault?

I buy Apple products because they work. I never have the problems I hear about from PC and Android users. If I plug in an Apple device, it always works! Amazing.

Stick with wired headphones or earbuds. It couldn't be simpler.

After all, you have to keep so many devices charged that you have to constantly keep an eye on the battery status of your gear. Remove one worry and you'll remove more stress from your life.

I have a pair of Bose noise-cancelling headphones from about a dozen years ago. They work perfectly and they're as comfortable as the new ones that are available. My wired earbuds work fine and the specs are the same as the new wireless ones... and they don't have any of the latency issues I've found with wireless 'buds.

It also helps to occasionally disconnect from the electronics. Read a book. Meditate. Ponder your navel or something! You don't have to be connected at all times!

Just my two cents.

Regular Bluetooth headsets are much cheaper than that.

I was an Apple fan since 2008. I was happy with Apple products, but I've noticed over the past 2-3 years that Apple devices tend to be underpowered and overpriced. I stopped being a fan in 2017.

I got rid of an iMac a few months ago. We bought our last iPhone three years ago. I still have some other Apple devices that the wife and I are still using. I switched to Linux for my desktop and to Google Chrome for my laptop. My current phone is Android.

No more Apple for me, unless they change their ways, which, is very unlikely.

:/

Didn't use it for a few weeks and now it is a complete brick.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/5sippi/the_apple_pencil_can_die_if_you_dont_keep_it

The stupid battery goes completely dead if left uncharged for a some time. It won't take any charge now no matter how long it is plugged in. No way to repair it because it is completely sealed.

I use apple because my company makes me. I like many of there features but I don't believe I would use them if I didn't have to.

LG tone ones that you wear around your neck. And the battery lasts a very long time.

I think the trick with any electronic item with a built in battery is to not overcharge. Charge sparingly, with the right voltage, and unplug immediately when the blue/green light comes on. I realize that's easier said than done.

And they will last far longer than a pair of Airpods will.

Actual manufacturing costs are what, about five bucks?

It's a no-brainer. Unless of course you can convince the mark, um, I mean customer, to pay full price.

Eh, don't look at me like that.

I just bought a $7.00 Bluetooth speaker for my new flip phone. My cell phone provider PAID ME to take a new phone because they no longer wished to support my old not-so-smart flip phone. All I did to accomplish this was to ignore them as their self-imposed cut-off date approached.

(I like flip phones. They are like Star Trek communicators.)

My old phone didn't play music. This new phone will take a micro SD card full of music and blast it out through any Bluetooth speaker, so I figured I'd try it.

The little speaker works great, I tested it out with a few Abba songs.

I won't feel bad at all when the speaker's battery stops holding a charge. I'll either fix it myself, or transmogrify it into some other sort of Bluetooth device.

It's almost like I'm a high school dropout seventeen year old computer prodigy again, but without the risk...