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I love that Apple is breeding a new generation of gullible audiophiles by selling $550 wireless headphones that only work with devices running the latest version of MacOSpic.twitter.com/59LJ0wbzu1
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When connected to Apple devices, the AirPods actually use a custom Bluetooth profile where they do narrowband SBC over Bluetooth LE for voice and AAC over Bluetooth.
They can do both at the same time too, so it doesn't have the annoying problem of music falling back to SBC as soon as an app tries to use a microphone, like on Android/everything else.
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yeah that sbc fallback is awful
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Qualcomm sells aptX HD as "near lossless". It maxes out at 576kbit/s, but you can't compare bitrates across codecs like that. Opus would probably be comparable at 128kbit/s, it's just that you can't put it in a wireless headphone and expect reasonable battery life.
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