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Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product (techpinions.com)
Columnist Ben Bajarin, writing for TechPinions: The big story is customer satisfaction with AirPods is extremely high. 98% of AirPod owners said they were very satisfied or satisfied. Remarkably, 82% said they were very satisfied. The overall customer satisfaction level of 98% sets the record for the highest level of satisfaction for a new product from Apple. When the iPhone came out in 2007, it held a 92% customer satisfaction level, iPad in 2010 had 92%, and Apple Watch in 2015 had 97%. Bajarin notes that the site surveyed 942 AirPods customers.
App developers have pulled support for the Apple Watch, NOT AirPods. Editorial quality at its finest folks! FWIW, Google has already officially stated that removal of Apple Watch support is temporary, and that it's coming back soon.
From TFA: "We know from profiling questions that most Apple AirPod owners fall into the early adopter category."
In other words, no shit.
...being pulled. Then TFS says at the end "...several major apps including Google Maps, Ebay, Amazon, and Target have pulled support for Apple Watch."
Two completely unrelated things...[insert thinking face emoji]
Only dedicated iTard suckers would ever buy that junk. Nonetheless, it seems that a solid 2% of the users need reeducation.
Apple did just gut their affiliate program.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
A chicken crossed the road to get to the other side.
Yeah. Having had an apple watch for over a year now, I can tell you that the number of apps that make sense on the watch are pretty small. Of those 4, the only one that makes sense to me is Google Maps. Why would I want Ebay on my watch? I think this is just the vendors seeing what worked and what didn't and cutting their losses.
Has anyone ever tried using apps on the Apple Watch? It's a fucking disaster. Even Apple's provided apps frequently run out of memory and get culled, leaving you to wait for them to slowly load again when you try and use them.
Maybe the Series 3 will be powerful enough to support proper apps, but the current Series 1 and Series 2 most certainly are not. The whole experience is slow and awful.
I suspect from metrics, companies that provide Apple Watch apps have discovered no one fucking uses them, because they're simply terrible. The Apple Watch is a complete disaster, and if Jobs were still at the helm, would likely never have been launched or at least have been silently killed by now.
Although I suppose it could be worse, there's still the Apple TV...
You are all apps. Apps say moo. MOOOOOOOOO! MOOOOOOOOO! Mooooo apps MOOOOOOO! Mooo say the apps. YOU LUDDITES!!
You are clearly an imposter. The REAL Apps AC has much more nuanced and sophisticated arguments.
"AirPod customers satisfied" then "pulled support for Apple Watch"
Ms Mash is getting worse by the day by combining two totally different fucking things into one one. Why not just attach this to "why are apple products magical?" post while you're at it?
Why the fuck do I still visit this site... it's bad for my sanity and been going downhill for years. HN while trash is still better than here by leaps and bounds.
I guess 14 years of habit is hard to break.
And those "big apps" missing from Apple Watch are the result of people understanding what apps work on wearables and what kind don't. You could've read that on Macrumors where you likely pulled these from.
Ms Mash is should be called Ms Trash.
This headline seems to be one step worse than clickbait. As written, half of it is completely false.
Haven't read slashdot in months, and it turns out this moooooo stuff is still going on. Aren't you bored by now?
Thanks for pointing it out. I have fixed the summary and headline. Apologies for the error.
Why would I want Ebay on my watch?
If you did a lot of buying, it might make sense to be able to up your bid after getting outbid. That's about all I can think of - and it should be pretty lightweight. You have to leave the kitchen sink at home when designing for a watch.
This article and it's associate 'research' are annoyingly pointless. Of course the early adopters love them! When they cost half as much and a third of iphone users have bought them, let's repeat this survey (assuming it's subject selection methodology is sound) and see what results we get.
Stupidly worded summary aside, I have a couple of question regarding AirPods.
Every single bluetooth headset I have ever used, has given me grief in terms of connectivity. Every. Single. One. I live in a very urban area with a ridiculous amount RF interference, and it's virtually impossible for me to walk down the sidewalk and not have the audio break up at least once. More often than not, the signal will break up very badly at certain points.
1. How do AirPods fair in this regard? If Apple's custom bluetooth hardware is able to punch through, then that IMO would be HUGE.
2. Are they designed the same as their other earPods? I have the basic wired earphones that came with my iPhone, and I just can't wear them for long. Their solid unyielding structure presses on my ears in just the wrong way, and becomes shockingly painful if I wear them for more than 30 minutes. My only option is to keep them as loose in my ear as possible, risking them falling out.
3. Related to 2: Are they noise isolating? One of the thing I like most about my current set of (otherwise crappy) bluetooth headphones, is that they suction against the ear and isolate the sometimes incredibly loud surrounding din of the city. While my earPods sound perfectly good, they make no effort at isolating my ears, which means if it gets noisy, I have to either stop listening entirely, or crank the volume up and hurt my ears. Based on the product page, it looks like the AirPods follow the same overall structure as the rest of Apple's headphones.
Thx.
92% satisfaction with the iPhone? It's a pile of shit. It has a broken, poorly laid out interface. It has bad default apps, it has a 1/2 broken notification system, on par with the BlackBerry Hub and it lacks good user interaction. If 92% of customers love that phone, then 92% of customers haven't used and don't want to use a functional phone.
Why???????
For the love god why did he do it????
Serious question: has an Apple user ever *not* claimed complete satisfaction with one of their products? (At least, since they became a fashion icon with the iPod.) These surveys don't mean much, other than that they're going to continue making money off of these people.
I got a set as a gift, and I think they're atrociously bad.
They don't stay in my ears unless I sit perfectly still. I don't even have that problem with the wired EarPods. And, I really hate the lack of media/volume controls. Surely they could have come up with some sort of "gesture" to change the volume and skip tracks. Telling Siri to change the volume is NOT a good solution.
How do you bore a bot?
Modern app appers know that ONLY apps can app app post apps! Nuance is for LUDDITES.
Apps!
"The bigger, the better", says Apple fan BeauHD.
Stockholm Syndrome sufferers are enamoured with their captors. More at 11.
Why???????
For the love god why did he do it????
I dream of a time when a chicken can cross the road without having to justify its actions.
92% of Apple fans don't want to admit how foolish they were buying overpriced crap.
My bet there is a correlation between price (or rather how overpriced the item is) and justification of purchase (satisfaction).
Everyone that heard about airpod and didn't like it resolved never to touch that overpriced dogshit. Of course it has a high approval rate - only idiots bought them and regardless of how they really feel they're going to defend their overpriced purchase.
Faker. Appguy and Cowguy can never merge. It would be like APK NAKED AND PETRIFIED
With the smug sense of superiority I get for wearing them around people who do not have them.
Whenever I'm near an Apple store, I inquire about Airpods. Each time, I'm told they don't have any, and I can order some something something 3 months out. If I cared deeply, I would order some. But, I don't. There's no casual buyers of this product- everyone who has one has waited in line, preordered, or something else. They are, every one of them, all-in on the product.
If Apple made enough for demand, their sales would be substantially higher, but their satisfaction numbers would probably not be so amazing. Perhaps airpods are totally awesome- but you'll never know to ask super motivated fans only, which is all they have. All this study tells you is that the things are not garbage- and I don't think anyone was claiming that.
...you don't want to believe you've been duped, so you convince yourself it's really great. This is a well-known psychological phenomenon that Apple has been trading on for years, and it applies doubly for early adopters who are already fans and have a relationship with Apple, whom they don't want to be disappointed by. It's like how everybody knows how useless your boyfriend/girlfriend is except you. Exclusivity plus a need to be happy with it. I'm not saying they aren't good, just that there are a bunch of factors at work.
The post was originally entitled 'Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product, But Some Big Apps Have Mysteriously Pulled Support' and was later changed to 'Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product'.
Is this an advertiser thing?
Every fucking article is seeking comments about competitors and testing a response to a new Apple or MS product/service/initiative. I've never seen less shit about Linux, hacks, pet projects, and actual issues in the FLOSS community
If they didn't say they were satisfied, Apple was going to "turn off" their AirPods through an over the air firmware update.
But if you do a survey and 98% of your monkey's say they like your thing - you might want to either check the survey itself, or check who you're surveying.
Fwiw - I ride public transit to work every single day of the year (except weekends and holidays) and I've never once seen a pair of them in use.
Why do you keep insisting the avian species must self-identify as a chicken? Perhaps zhe wanted to identify as a turkey or duck or goose and crossed the road to be with it's other, self-identified types?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
It's called Rationalization.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Nothing mysterious about it.
Percentages means nothing when you are basically digging into a crowd that is almost on a cult like level of devotion to a brand.
Not only they are heavily invested into the ecossystem, they have to justify paying so much for something that adds little value.
That satisfaction was decided pre-purchase. It only means that people who had any doubts decided not to buy it.
Ask for satisfaction rates on Prada bags or Ferraris.
I would just like to take this opportunity to tell Apple to f--- themselves on the headphone issue. I ended up with a jackless iPhone, I can't find their stupid headphones, and the last thing I would do is buy Apple's &%&%$#^ AirPods -- which I presume are twice as loss-prone. F--- Apple for wanting every part connecting to an Apple thing to be Apple. It's great for your business, but not for me. At the very least, you could have built a magic RF finder into your idiotic connector of the month.
No product has ever had a 98% satisfaction rate... not even chocolate.
Regardless of device...when you have a rabid fan base, most will give a positive spin on a device, rather than knock it. They do that to justify the stupid high prices for "flagship" devices these days.
Maps and the credit card thing.
Because he is a traitor a crook an admitted sex offender/sexual predator, a chronic compulsive liar, and yet Trump supporters are satisfied with his performance.
Satisfaction in a product doesn't mean it is good.
Why do you insist on attributing a self-identity of some avian variation?
I admit it - I am a phyllum-ist...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!