Everyone's experienced someone on a video conference struggling with their AirPods and audio.

· Bits and Bobs 1/27/25
  • Everyone's experienced someone on a video conference struggling with their AirPods and audio.
    • It's an example of ambient computing; your various computing devices working together seamlessly as one computing experience.
    • When it goes right, it seems magical, and you don't give it another thought.
    • When it goes wrong, it's mystifying and completely unclear what to do.
      • Where do you even go to fix it?
    • Wires are clunky, but they are unambiguous about the intent of what should connect to what.[aev]
    • If a wired connection isn't what you want, you have a direct and obvious affordance about what to grab onto and reconfigure.