Riddle Me This, Steve Jobs
May 21st, 2007 by James Hofsiss in Uncategorized
Why do Apple’s earbuds suck? Yesterday I went to the Apple store at Pentagon City Mall and purchased our second iPod shuffle for a member of our family. This time it was a hot pink one for my love, Kim. Now Kim likes the earphones that have little hangers that go over your ears and I prefer the in-ear buds. So she and I traded. Since someone in the house has misplaced my usual earbuds I used the Apple earbuds today.
The sound quality is awful! I mean, it sounds like I’m trying to listen to music through a wall. These are made by a company that can get me to shell out $80-plus for a 1 GB MP3 player that doesn’t even have an LCD screen so you know what you’re playing. (They call this a “feature.”) They don’t sell a decent computer for less than $2000 and even that won’t play any games to speak of. (No games any self-respecting gamer wants to play anyway.) And yet they can’t make a set of earbuds that don’t make you feel like you’re listening to them with a head cold. My $12 Koss earbuds sounds 1000 times better AND they actually stay in my ear.
What’s up with that Steve Jobs?
All I can say is … I hate Macs!!!
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Came to your site through Lisa Leichner. Just wanted to thank you for the years you have served in military to help me be able to live free. We pray daily for our troops to be as safe as possible, do the job they are trained to do, and come home quickly. God bless you.