Having a 2nd gen AirPods Pro, I’m a bit salty about the “newer” version with lossless audio.
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.
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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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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I’m missing where it says something about it in the article.
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Unless the contract they signed says otherwise, there’s nothing stopping you from swapping out bits and pieces even when you have a license for a collection of patents like for bluetooth components. Sony does it!
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I’m more annoyed that I can’t just upgrade the case to the new IO.
Don’t worry too much, they’re only lossless when playing content from the vision pro….
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You can use custom codecs if you control both sender and receiver, and they have their own lossless codec as well.
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Sure thing
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.
I’m confused about why they aren’t calling them “3rd gen”
There’s a small mistake in the article, macOS Sonoma release day of 26th September is a Tuesday, not a Monday.
