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yeah so the iphone 7 7 plus they're now out in the wild and earlier this week Scott Stein reviewed the devices which now support water resistance improved cameras and battery life but as everyone expected over rumors for months no headphone jack at all instead they include an adapter and Bluetooth audio support so you guys have both spent a lot of time reviewing a variety of headphones with without headphone jacks when that announcement came out do you think losing the port's a big deal nowadays we have so many bluetooth audio devices out there now I'll start yeah I think it's a huge deal yeah I was really upset by it i'm still wondering if there are people that were shopping for the headphone for the iphone that don't know it doesn't have the headphone jack i'd love to see that reaction even today but yeah i think it's it's a huge deal even though obviously apples not the first company to release bluetooth earbuds I just don't think that their version of them are good enough to sort of warrant that decision hmm I I actually disagree i was a little bit concerned i thought about it for a while i've written a bunch of articles on it and in the end I was like you know I don't think it's that big a deal um partially because at least there's someone I was more worried they're going to charge thirty dollars for the adapter at least they put it in the box hopefully you don't lose it um but and then you know I just think right now the market is really swinging towards wireless headphones anyway so it's already over a fifty percent of revenue or sales going to and that's going to keep increasing and at least now you know good wired headphone is going to be a a wireless headphone a bluetooth headphone but it's finally bluetooth is finally getting to the point where it actually sounds pretty good Apple did that before when they moved from 30 pin and lightning the adapter for that was about i think twenty to thirty dollars and this time it's only nine dollars for that 3.55 into lightning but i was very much expecting it to be 30 bucks and some of the competitors which might get to a little later they still charging thirty to forty dollars and they I'd like multiple lightning ports or an inline remote to the thing hmm yeah i mean i think that apple's trying to make it as seamless as possible to move people away from it at the same time i think the benefits of not having it it's supposedly there's a little bit better battery life there's also the waterproofing obviously there's phones out there that have a headphone jack that are so waterproof so the idea that you're you're getting something in return you are getting that second speaker i don't know how much of a difference that makes butts gonna make a little bit of difference but the idea of selling that loss with another gain they're trying their best to do that mm-hmm yeah the thing that the accessor that I love the most I think you wrote about it this week David was by a company called spigen I wish we had them in the office right now but it's an accessory that attaches to your to ear paw ear pods and it's basically just a landing lanyard to turn your bluetooth earbuds into a wired earbud well it's an Aristo they call that true wireless um true wireless earphones what's the point of that is that just for people that want to dangle and negligent acts out feelings yeah they're like well I think people a lot of people are afraid that they're gonna lose them if they don't have to carry around that case all the time is that what it is I mean how much does that thing like 30 bucks or something else No ten dollars Oh ten dollars oh well it will be ten dollars but the bridges those air pods are going to be 160 170 dollars per 59-59 awesome some 160 then the and maybe it just gives that a little more security if you in case you were to lose or dominant I also think that isn't as big a problem with the air pauses people think because you just I've been using a lot of these totally wireless earphones for last few months and once you put it back in the case you just put in your pocket and they're stowed away just like having headphones any case what I will say is I think what people are going to be shocked about is how many people buy these air pods and then use a single air pod as basically their way of making calls like all those you know they've sold literally millions of LG tone neckband style headphones and the idea what that is you can use them as a stereo buds but at the same time you'll see a lot of people just pull a butt up to use as a single but to make calls so I mean I think I think that's what's going to surprise people how many people end up you see them wearing one of those things in their ears and you do need to put it back into the case at least every couple of hours to get that full 24 hours yeah I mean I look I at Kate's charge of the year buds to the thing that I was really surprised about what the air pause is that you can't change the track by touching a part of there's no button on the actual air box a lot on that we're going to show a bunch of examples of bluetooth earbuds that came out prior to the air pots and those all have some way or another to either control the volume or change the track of bone and I think that's going to frustrate a lot of people when they buy them to you spend 160 bucks you still have to pull out your phone change the track or turn the volume up I'm not so sure about I mean I think it's more you know I think apples focused on making them dead easy to connect and stay connected in a very reliable connection those are the two things that are problematic with these truly wireless so that's where everything was focused so when you pull one of these these buds out it is connected to your phone you're done and that is appeal it going to be appealing to a lot of people yeah especially if you have the entire ecosystem to I mean it's not just your phone if you have it connects by iCloud right so if you have ipad or you have a watch it'll connect to all those automatically which is pretty convenient too but you have to have all those devices in order to buy it if anything people are going to be possibly slightly disappointed by the sound I think they sound fine but because they're an open design first of all they let some sound in so if you're in a noisy environment you'll have some sound leaking and also you're not going to get a ton of base so if you're a base lover I don't know if the air polish going to be for you yeah you're definitely trading convenience for a sound lonely