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- Facetime Video/Audio: Holy shit I swear this has saved my LDR. I found myself resorting to repeating "uh huh" and pretending I heard what she said because we'd get so annoyed with dropped video or audio. FaceTime uses some pied piper compression so its half the upload bandwidth that Skype uses. If you have less than 2mb upload Skype is unusable. And FT Audio, we both have shitty cell phone reception to where it sounds like we're in a tunnel. Switching to FT audio is like high definition for the first time- sounds like she's right next to me and I can hear super subtle things like her breathing, throat clearing, dog panting in the background (hey don't be perverted!)
- AirPods: Ok I fucking hated AirPods also. I have a nice pair of over ear Beyerdynamics, I dabble in hi-fi. But I found I used the wired EarPods regularly for calls, meetings, etc. Got an apple gift card and decided fuck it I'm tired of untangling ear buds. I don't care if I look stupid. I'm going to sound like a fan boy but this is a total evolution of earbuds. Not having a wire connecting the two makes a huge difference. No wire to bounce around when working out, or laying down, or make noise when you move your head and the cable drags or slightly dislodges the ear bud. Also, the charging case. It's like photography gear: the best lens/camera is the one you have on you. These are always in my ears. I forget about them.
- Siri: Yeah siri is retarded. But siri + AirPods is like the shitty version of how they portray virtual assistants in futuristic movies. Now use siri all the time (especially while driving) to read and send texts, setup reminders in todoist, launch apps, set alarms, check weather. Now I'm thinking of switching from spotify back to apple music. Yeah apple music isn't that great but I don't even look at it. Just tell it what to do. "Play hip hop playlist", "play some Drake for me", "Love this song", "add this song to library", "add this track to my chill playlist". Also switching back to apple podcasts app for this reason.