That is 4+ hours in-ear. What usually happens is that someone wants to talk to you throughout your day, and you put them in the case for 5-10 mins and you gain an hour. Or you eat lunch with co-workers and they go in the case for a bit. Then, after work, when the battery is dying, you need to take a shower, so you put them in the case for like 20 minutes and you have enough charge for the rest of the day; then you go to bed and they fully charge over night.
Won't work for me at all, I have my headphones on for hours at a time. What makes it worse is that you could have your wireless ones and someone like me his wired ones.
Apple decided rightly or not that they don't care about me. So be it.
> Apple decided rightly or not that they don't care about me.
If you’re view is that every product should cater to the needs of everyone, then yep, Apple shouldn’t care about you as you are being unrealistic.
You get wired headphones and a dongle in the box, you can buy Beats headphones with the same chip as the Airpods with longer battery life for about the same price, or you can use a vast ocean of other wired or Bluetooth headphones. It’s not like you are forced to use something that doesn’t work for your needs.
if its that important of a part of your life, buy two pairs of wireless headphones. but given the ridiculously fast charge time of airpods, why worry? otherwise, I hope apple keeps tailoring the products to the normal use cases and not making weird compromises for pro audio users and those with extremely high usage times. that's speaking as a shareholder anyway...
I charge my case about once a week.