{"id":44107,"date":"2024-07-16T14:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T18:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44107"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T14:34:45","slug":"an-ode-to-the-volume-swipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/16\/an-ode-to-the-volume-swipe\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to the Volume Swipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/an-ode-to-the-volume-swipe-b98804133c69\">M.G. Siegler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/500ish.com\/an-ode-to-the-volume-swipe-b98804133c69\">\n<p>I found myself thinking about the AirPods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, how truly great the volume swiping mechanism is on the AirPods Pro. This must be my most-used gesture in life beyond perhaps swiping up to unlock my phone. I have AirPods in my ears a good percentage of the day and I&rsquo;m constantly swiping up or down on the stems to raise or lower the volume of whatever I&rsquo;m listening to. It&rsquo;s so handy, literally. It&rsquo;s done so casually now that it&rsquo;s second-nature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sdw\/status\/1810916558686015933\">Sebastiaan de With<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sdw\/status\/1810916558686015933\">\n<p>Reddit comments 8 years ago, when the AirPods were first introduced. Eight years later, AirPods are a bigger business if broken out in revenue than McDonalds or Nike.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Deservedly so. Amazon currently has a Prime Day deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0D1XD1ZV3\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">AirPods Pro 2023 for $168.99<\/a> (i.e. $10 more than the original AirPods).<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/04\/airpods-fast-connect-vulnerability\/\">AirPods Fast Connect Vulnerability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/13\/airpods-pro-3023\/\">AirPods Pro 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/airpods-pro-2022\/\">AirPods Pro 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/20\/airpods\/\">AirPods<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"an-ode-to-the-volume-swipe-update-2024-07-18\">Update (2024-07-18): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Altimor\/status\/1813408493589897286\">Flo Crivello<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Altimor\/status\/1813408493589897286\"><p>TIL: there are more transistors in the AirPods Pro than in the CPU of a MacBook Pro from 2010<\/p><p>One is a professional laptop, the other earphones running on a battery weighing about 1 gram<\/p><p>Moore&rsquo;s Law&rsquo;s one hell of a thing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2024\/07\/17\/airpods-pro-prime-day\">John Gruber<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.G. Siegler: I found myself thinking about the AirPods&#8230; Specifically, how truly great the volume swiping mechanism is on the AirPods Pro. This must be my most-used gesture in life beyond perhaps swiping up to unlock my phone. I have AirPods in my ears a good percentage of the day and I&rsquo;m constantly swiping up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-16T18:49:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"c31ad837-5b8b-40ac-b3f2-d2009f5b861a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-18T14:34:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwxrYN1uLQKyz8tIAn1uGGg","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":[1422,699,101,295],"class_list":["post-44107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-bargain","tag-business","tag-history"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107","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=44107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44135,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44107\/revisions\/44135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}