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AirPods as a Platform

128 点作者 sc90大约 4 年前

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nickelcitymario大约 4 年前
The article overlooks one of the major reasons for wanting a non-voice interface to an audio experience: Being quiet.<p>Most of the time, if I&#x27;m wearing headphones, it&#x27;s so as to not disturb others around me. Otherwise I&#x27;d play it out loud.<p>This benefit goes away when everyone around me suddenly hears me bark out loud to adjust the volume, or send a text, or what-have-you.<p>I&#x27;m a big believer in audio-as-a-platform (particularly the AR possibilities), but I <i>hate</i> audibly trying to speak to a computer. It&#x27;s by far the worst input interface.<p>(On the other hand, much like cameras, the best interface is the one you have with you. I yell at my Google speakers all the damn time, because my hands are busy around the house. But those are also speakers, not headphones, and therefor a different use case.)
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function_seven大约 4 年前
This is what I want:<p>When golfing, I want to keep track of how far I hit the ball, the club I used, and where I landed. There are apps for this, of course, but I can&#x27;t use them. By the time I&#x27;ve arrived at my ball, I&#x27;m not going to stop, take out my phone, and start fidling with UI controls to select a club or confirm a location.<p>I would love to have an app that let me keep one AirPod in my ear, and allow me to track my golf game. The UX would be something like this:<p>1. Arrive at course, and use phone to select the tees and confirm the course I&#x27;m playing. Start the round.<p>2. Tap my AirPod and say, &quot;Teeing off on hole 1 using driver&quot;<p>3. Hit the ball<p>4. When I arrive at my ball, tap again and say, &quot;hitting seven iron&quot;<p>5. When I sink a putt, tap and say, &quot;next hole&quot;.<p>From just those interactions, the app could keep track of every shot, and also keep my score and number of putts. I could choose to not announce each and every shot if I wanted to, and instead say, &quot;add three strokes&quot; once I&#x27;m done with the hole.<p>I could also ask, &quot;How far to the middle of the green?&quot; and get a distance in my ear. &quot;What did I hit last time on this hole, for this shot?&quot; (Answer: &quot;You used a nine iron, and hit it 107 yards&quot;)<p>All that would be killer for me. Nicer than staring at my phone screen in the sunlight, and looking like I&#x27;m farting around to the players waiting for me to clear the fairway.<p>Anything like this exist today?
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jonbaer大约 4 年前
Has anyone actually TRIED using the AirPods in some form programmatically? It&#x27;s impossible, you lock down your phone TouchID&#x2F;FaceID and attempt to do a simple list by voice and &quot;you need to unlock your Phone first&quot; ... there is no trust in the pairing of hardware. I wanted to do a delivery platform based ONLY on the AirPods for all parties (pickup&#x2F;dropoff&#x2F;billing) but it&#x27;s just not possible. I hope it changes in the future to reflect some of what is in this post.
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dweekly大约 4 年前
Author&#x27;s site appears to be slow&#x2F;unresponsive; cached copy is at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210216181726&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;julian.digital&#x2F;2020&#x2F;04&#x2F;19&#x2F;airpods-as-a-platform&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20210216181726&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;julian.dig...</a>
lukev大约 4 年前
This starts to touch on one of the reason every &quot;personal assistant&quot; is crap: they&#x27;re basically just a verbal command line.<p>Their only real value proposition is basic interactions when the user&#x27;s hands and&#x2F;or eyes are busy with something else.<p>Until they can get smart or fluent enough that they can rival the effectiveness and accuracy of hands-on-screen interaction, the use cases will remain fairly niche.<p>More programmable, multi-modal interaction is a step in the right direction, but it&#x27;ll require a lot more.
meagher大约 4 年前
Pro tip: You can shorten voice commands for Siri, Alexa, et al.<p>&quot;Hey Siri, what&#x27;s the weather today?&quot; ==&gt; &quot;Hey Siri, weather&quot;<p>&quot;Hey Siri, set a timer for 10 minutes&quot; ==&gt; &quot;Hey Siri, 10 minute timer&quot;
germinalphrase大约 4 年前
Airpods (or any modern earphones) are absolutely the first really useful AR product available to consumers.<p>Transparency mode is a critical success even if it’s so boring as to be unremarked upon by most people. An AR device is most useful if it’s ubiquitously available. Transparency mode makes that possible (even if it could use improvement). The device also needs to avoid a negative social stigma. Airpods have largely achieved that as well (at least along younger people). That is partially marketing&#x2F;brand image - but it is also based on utility. Older folks would generally find it rude to leave headphones in while having a conversation because they assume the listener isn’t listening, but I work with a lot of teens, and it seems like they couldn’t care less. It’s understood that the speaker can still be heard. A quick tap&#x2F;squeeze is the social signal.<p>The author is right that there is huge untapped potential in auditory augmentations, but the focus on verbal input control is misplaced. It’s simply too obtrusive for public environments.<p>If I were betting, I’d say Apple won’t open up this kind of functionally until the (cross device) input control is generally codified, and that scheme will be intrinsically linked to a forward facing camera&#x2F;sensor package to provide contextual awareness and implied user attention &amp; intentions (i.e. glasses or similar).<p>Working on AR UX would be incredibly exciting.
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choward大约 4 年前
I don&#x27;t get what this has to do with AirPods exactly compared to other Bluetooth headphones. Besides the author using a lot of Apple words it seems like they&#x27;re proposing a new product that has nothing to do with Apple.
seltzered_大约 4 年前
&quot;The most obvious choice here is Siri, which is already integrated into every pair of AirPods.&quot;<p>- Not entirely true. It&#x27;s the pairing of the device with an iOS or capable watchOS device.<p>&quot;Why has no one thought about additional buttons or click mechanisms that allow users to interact with the actual content?&quot;<p>- It&#x27;s called a smartwatch (The pebble was really nice at this). or generically bluetooth radio controls.<p>I wish these design analyses talked about the material input costs needed to produce the thing we might perceive as a &#x27;platform&#x27;. I just see more batteries, wear, expense, etc.
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idolaspecus大约 4 年前
I agree with the author about the potential of audio interfaces + some simple additional inputs + integration with certain apps.<p>For me personally there is a suite of tools involving audio books and note taking that would change my life: A remote with a few physical buttons to rewind, switch to record-mode, skip sections. Speech to text with full text search. Voice recordings tied to what I’m listening to. Basically, I want to be able to work through a difficult audiobook while walking around.
joejohnson大约 4 年前
That was a lot of words to say “what if the AirPods had a programmable button so apps could favorite songs or add a bookmark?”
haroldkurac大约 4 年前
Not that patents are predictive of what will actually make it into the product, but Apple does have at least a few covering hand gesture and other inputs to AirPods:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10757491" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10757491</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10873798" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;patents.google.com&#x2F;patent&#x2F;US10873798</a>
genuine_smiles大约 4 年前
&gt; Why has no one thought about additional buttons or click mechanisms that allow users to interact with the actual content?<p>Microsoft added PowerPoint forward&#x2F;back control to their earbuds.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;microsoft-surface-earbuds-price-release-date-office-integration-2019-10" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;microsoft-surface-earbuds-pr...</a>
Tepix大约 4 年前
It could end up being quite hilarious if Apple ends up using various &quot;signals&quot; like biting your teeth, making grimmaces and weird noises to control invoke commands.<p>You&#x27;d no longer be sure if someone is having a seizure or trying to stop the podcast she is listening to.
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rado大约 4 年前
It makes sense considering Apple is all about diminishing physical technology (iMac: the screen is the computer). AirPods, Watch or something else as tiny or completely invisible will be the next platform, once they solve the performance and UI problem, which they will.
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Nbox9大约 4 年前
As far as I am aware, no one has been able to make a successful Voice First product. Some products, like Spotify or Audible, are greatly enchanted with Voice, but voice is just another access point.
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corobo大约 4 年前
I&#x27;d be happy with being able to program in triple tap actions as well as the double tap.<p>Two commands (and that&#x27;s if you&#x27;ve even got both in) is not enough!
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Tepix大约 4 年前
It would be cool if you could shake your head briefly when a new song comes up on Spotify, signalling that you don&#x27;t like it.
elicash大约 4 年前
The thing he wants a hardware button for is probably only used by .01% of users.<p>Edit: Removed the points that he already addressed after seeing comments below.
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avipars大约 4 年前
hug of death, can&#x27;t load the site