{"id":29434,"date":"2020-07-06T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29434"},"modified":"2020-07-06T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:38:39","slug":"airpods-vs-airpods-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/06\/airpods-vs-airpods-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"AirPods vs. AirPods Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/07\/03\/airpods-versus-airpods-pro-apples-earbuds-go-head-to-head\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/07\/03\/airpods-versus-airpods-pro-apples-earbuds-go-head-to-head\/\">\n<p>Wearing the AirPods Pro doesn&rsquo;t hurt, but I notice them constantly and breathe a sigh of relief every time I take them out.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m torn here&mdash;the AirPods Pro have significantly more flexible controls than the AirPods, but they require more manual dexterity than I often have when I&rsquo;m exercising or doing yard work. But if forced to choose, I&rsquo;d go with the simple double-tap on the AirPods. It&rsquo;s just easier.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure this varies depending on your hand size, but I find that the AirPods case is almost an addictive fiddle&mdash;it&rsquo;s like that smooth stone from the beach that you just can&rsquo;t put down. The AirPods Pro case, on the other hand, is a little large in my pocket and just doesn&rsquo;t have the same addictive feel.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the cover of the AirPods case snaps shut with an absolutely compelling little thunk at the end, whereas the AirPods Pro case cover&#8230; well, it just shuts. There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with it, and you probably wouldn&rsquo;t notice unless you were switching back and forth as I&rsquo;ve been doing. But it&rsquo;s not as good.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and you can probably guess where this is going, the AirPods fit into their case so smoothly and with a tiny magnetic assist that makes it seem like they&rsquo;re happy to jump back in and get a charge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>He came to many of the same conclusions that I did.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/15\/airpods-pro-thoughts\/\">AirPods Pro Thoughts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Wearing the AirPods Pro doesn&rsquo;t hurt, but I notice them constantly and breathe a sigh of relief every time I take them out. [&#8230;] I&rsquo;m torn here&mdash;the AirPods Pro have significantly more flexible controls than the AirPods, but they require more manual dexterity than I often have when I&rsquo;m exercising or doing yard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-06T20:38:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"4ea9af55-36ce-41b5-9707-1111033e03c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-07-06T20:38:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATqmvVTbOQbWXBxERAz4Dwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,31,1667,30,1666],"class_list":["post-29434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29435,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29434\/revisions\/29435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}