Comment by cj

1 day ago

Aesthetics. Short stem looks sleeker.

Form vs. function

Do they? I don't think so. Makes them look stubby and more like a hearing assistive device (not particularly fashionable).

They looked sleeker and more balanced with the longer stem and in the ear more like jewelry.

Or, you know, design trade-offs like every other hardware ever made.

I don't want to feel like I'm wearing one of those customer support head mics. I'm ok with shorter stem, and never had a problem.

  • > Or, you know, design trade-offs like every other hardware ever made.

    Or different SKUs. Just saying.

    Not that hard for the most profitable trillion dollar company on the planet.

  • Apple are king of form over function. Have we already forgotten that hack Jony Ive and his fetish for removing usefulness in favor of a few mm of thinness? Or the stupid fucking Touch Bar keyboard?

    I still have a touch bar MacBook and the keyboard is unusable now.

    • The touch bar was not a bad invention. Apple just neglected it and never gave it the software support it deserved. With some proper development it could have been great.

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