Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Airpods are allegedly getting worse FOR A REASON”.
So this first broke when users. This is honestly really sad. Yeah users felt like hey. What’S going on here, Apple released the airpods pro twos and they’re, like yeah they’re up to two times the ANC, but I could have sworn my airpods Pro once had better A and C like like a few months ago. So it turns out that that actually happened.
Apple did downgrade the active noise cancellation in some of their products, uh ratings.com rt-i-n-g-s, that’s how they spell it. Apparently.Com recently confirmed that active noise cancellation has gotten worse on the airpods max following firmware. Update 4071, I should be happy. Apple has no way to update firmware other than connecting to an iPhone, because my airpods Pros still work great um, so firmware update for E71 back in May many people assumed this was a case of forced obsolescence, making the product worse to boost sales of its successor. Reddit user facing Condor has laid out well-sided research, indicating though that Apple May instead be quietly replacing the ANC Tech in their products to protect themselves in an ongoing lawsuit against a patent troll company Jawbone Innovations who acquired what was left of defunct, Bluetooth, headset maker Jawbone.
Back in 2017., I remember Jawbone huh huh, what a thing Jawbone Innovation sued Apple in September 2021 for infringement of eight noise cancellation, patents and the next month Apple released a firmware update for the airpods Pro 1 that reduced its ANC Effectiveness. There’S some debate about when the ANC Effectiveness was actually reduced. It may have been earlier, but this would still make sense, given that the patent troll was probably trying to renegotiate before or was trying to negotiate before suing a year later, airpods Pro 2s were released with up to two times ANC improvements.
It seems likely we’ll see something similar happen with airpods Max facing Condor claims that making product changes May reduce Apple’s chances of facing a ban on Imports or sales. During the trial discussion question things aren’t always as they seem should we apologize to Apple for all the times. We’Ve assumed things about them.
No, okay, fair enough yeah, some! Sometimes we should just do this type of reporting as well. We should point out when there was some Cloak and Dagger stuff going on in the background for sure um, and we should I, I think it’s good – that Apple has been working to try to make improvements, despite the patent trolling going on, and I think we should Give them that pat on the back, but no, I don’t think you should apologize for what we’ve said in the past, because we there’s no way for us to know that this is what’s happening and we still need to do as reviewers. We still need to look critically at companies, so it is what it is.
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