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  Jill Karol

  a month ago

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  Apples products aside, if you have to fiddle with your earbuds to make them fit, you're wearing the wrong size.  Try a larger or smaller silicone tip.  Once they're in there they should be fast, no matter what vibration-inducing work you're doing

  That being said, I do like the Loops.  I have the sleep ones, and my noise-sensitive husband has the ones for out and about.  The sleep ones aren't as quieting as the Bose ones, but hopefully one day, as our expensive Bose sleep ones crapped out after a few years

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  John Whitley

  a month ago

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  The touch sensitivity on Apple's various generations of AirPods Pro have, in many years of extensive use, never once generated a conflict with physical action on the earbuds for me. This is straight-up intentional design that separates the areas and modes of touch (physical manipulation or capacitive interaction) completely so that there's no unintended overlap like you describe. For example, the central "hub" where you'd press to secure fit is not touch sensitive at all.  The stem is touch sensitive, but either requires a very deliberate squeeze or else a touch gesture (swipe up or down) that doesn't get mistaken for the physical "grab stem to remove" hand gesture. The touch sensitive area on the stem is both rotated from the physical "grab it" position and distinguished by a passive haptic groove that lets the user know they're on the touch/squeeze sensitive area purely by feel. Touching this groove alone does nothing, so orienting to the device is always "safe" from an interaction point of view.

  
  

  I'll thus argue that distinguishing physical vs. capacitive touch interactions alone isn't sufficient. For a device like this that needs to be operated purely by touch, the design process needs to comprehensively map >all< user interactions on the device such that they're "non-overlapping" in interaction space (ala: physical vs capacitive, gesture, device contact area) – even/especially the "boring stuff" like shoving it back in your ear. Any unintentional overlaps/mistakes on the part of the user suggest that the device's design process was simply flawed on this point.

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