• clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Having a 2nd gen AirPods Pro, I’m a bit salty about the “newer” version with lossless audio.

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      1 year ago

      It’s odd they bumped the AirPods Pro to “2.5” and didn’t mention it at all. Would have been a natural follow on from the USB-C segment of the iPhone announcement.

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        1 year ago

        I think lossless being exclusive to the Vision Pro along with the iPhone 15 being new and not supporting it puts them in an awkward position when announcing it. Just a theory. And I’m just assuming based on the note shown in the article that the Vision Pro will be the only lossless device for awhile.

        I assume future Apple products post Vision pro will also get lossless. But why the iPhone 15 didn’t… who knows.

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          1 year ago

          Qualcomm’s aptX is the only lossless Bluetooth codec out there. Apple will have to deal with their licensing to get lossless support across their devices and that means a boatload of cash has to transfer hands so Apple will likely be judicial in what devices support it.

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            1 year ago

            You think Apple isn’t using their own codec? I always assumed AirPods used their own stuff when using an Apple device with them.

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              1 year ago

              They can’t. Not now anyway as clearly stated in the article they have licensed aptX. Patents and whatnot likely won’t let them push their own for a couple of years. I’m surprised Apple doesn’t develop their own alternative to BT. They always complain it’s the biggest bottleneck in getting high quality anything over the air.

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      1 year ago

      Don’t worry too much, they’re only lossless when playing content from the vision pro….

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      1 year ago

      Wow, yeah. I agree. And I’m actually interested in the vision pro. Damn!

      I was wondering how latency with the HMD would be. Now I know.

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    1 year ago

    There’s a small mistake in the article, macOS Sonoma release day of 26th September is a Tuesday, not a Monday.