Dyson.
That aged well
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Think the point still stands tbf.
Edit: Get to the semis id say that didnt age well.
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It is mainly hot air⌠or sucked!
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Diary of a CEO. Steven Bartlett would happily sell you snake oil whilst telling you how great it is.
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Oh yeah, that âpodcastâ has completely gone down the drain now. Nothing but shilling for products. Doesnât he have a stake in Huel? Tells me all I need to know.
I was chatting to someone the other day and they said they were on Huel; inside I pitied the fool.
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Just catching up with this thread now.
BTW, @tunster , interesting reading about Endurance Life. I had the same issues at Classic Quarter and apparently they had got âbetterâ. That was 3yrs ago!
Re the Voda/ mobile coverage issue. My knowledge is old now but it was a constant struggle. Not always for the reasons you think. There are/were 3 main network equipment providers in the UK, Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson.
The country is âgenerallyâ divided up into three regions, east/west and London. Each of the regions will have a dominant equipment provider which retailers will put their product across.
One tower for example may have Huawei and Nokia equipment on because they need coverage. Some work better than others, sometimes itâs literally down to space on the tower. Sometimes equipment gets âunwoundâ and sometimes itâs down to optimisation licencing (paying more to get the good stuff).
Couple that with the crippling costs (both financial and environmental) of running massive DX farms, providers are finding it harder for it make sense.
Coverage. signals, vectors are in a constant state of flux. None of this should affect the customer, but it does. providers are sweating assets more and more and the cost of EWL is absolutely insane right now.
When I was in the game, in Oz and the UK, a provider generally needed a customer to stay 18mths before theyâs break even. I imagine thatâs probably 24mths now.
I honestly donât know what the answer is, and wonât pretend to. I know itâs an insanely complex landscape and always changing.
Consumer demand and data appetite is outstripping reliable supply and the permits to expand get harder and harder to gain approval. All of which adds to costs and detracts from service.
The Voda/3 merge wasnât strategic, it was flat out survival.
Have to run. Not spell checked.
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BOSE 
Uh oh, I was thinking of buying a Bose Bluetooth speaker
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Just really disappointed that I had two pairs of QC headphones fail in quick succession. Refunded for both.
I bought some QC35 when they first came out about 25 yrs ago, and they were brilliant, lasted years and countless long haul flights. Eventually became just too outdated though.
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Arh, thatâs a shame.
Iâve had some headphones for 10 years, still work now.
Seinhauser on the other handâŚ
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Iâm on Bowers and Wilkins now. They are fine but I like the ergos on the Bose more.
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Politicians.
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One of my Jabra earbuds has given-up the ghost; tbh I was surprised they lasted more than 2 years. Nothing seems very well made these days. Currently using some ÂŁ12.99 TK Maxx ones as a stop-gap; B/T connection on those is very crackly if Iâm walking with my phone in a pocket.
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My Apple AirPods keep randomly disconnecting from my phone, including when Iâm on a call.
Theyâre just over a year old and worked perfectly until a couple of weeks ago.
I donât know if itâs an issue with the AirPods or the phone, but itâs getting really annoying
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I guess they try and cram so much tech into wireless earbuds, and they get used and abused to the point they will fail much sooner than traditional wired ones.
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N=1 I guess going on here!
My Sennheiser headphones (over ear, noise cancelling) are now 3.5 years old I think, and theyâre still perfect. I use them all day on calls and I listen to music/pods etc pretty much every night.
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Thereâs a great Hannah Fry program about earbuds and the amount of tech that goes into them. I particularly liked the bit about the noise cancelling element and how they have to detect the sounds, invert them and make sure they arrive at the eardrum at precisely the same time to cancel out the noise.
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Iâd likely only go - Choose your Fairphone audio experience these days, crammng so much in has led to no repairability
Have you tried the fairphone stuff Jim? Iâve had my eye on them for a while as my next mobile replacement when itâs needed.