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Another positive point for wireless headphones: you never have to deal with detangling a cord, getting caught in it, or it pulling on you.


Yep, and then they are much easier to lose, step on, have drop out of your ear while you are running and disappear.

I have literally found a half dozen sets of airpods out in the world, whereas before wireless earbuds became popular I never found a single pair of abandoned headphones.

The bigger headphones dont have this problem as much but they are significantly heavier because they have to include all the electronics and batteries in them.


Yep, and then they are much easier to lose, step on, have drop out of your ear while you are running and disappear

Somewhere on a rails-to-trails at the foot of the Cascade Mountains is a single Beats Powerbeat that was flung to the ground in the middle of a 50 mile race after I pulled a piece of clothing over my head. I was leading the race, so I spent just the barest amount of time looking, but never found it. Damned things ain’t cheap, either.

I should have just thrown the other one to the ground, so at least someone might have a matched set. At the same time, if I had to dick around with wired headphones, I wouldn’t have used them at all.




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