My Experiment With Apple AirPods

I am a strong fan of Apple philosophy - “Simplicity is the highest level of sophistication”. The AirPods are simple to interface with iPhone and that is it. To me, it did not meet the core principle of Apple products - Intuition over Intelligence. Lack of intuition or intelligence, either way, the interface is too bad for me.

Use Case	Attending a phone call
Expectation	When you get a call, you plug-in the airpod to your ear, the call is automatically answered
Reality	You have to double tap the airpod to answer the call. At present, my success rate of double tap is less than 5% (that is 1 success for every 20 attempts).
Experience	Bad

Use Case	Listening to music
Expectation	The volume can be adjusted without reaching the phone
Reality	This is the most complicated task. Double tap the airpod to activate Siri With a 5% success rate, when Siri is active, use a command to adjust the volume. The success rate for Siri to understand this command is less than 5%. This leaves absolutely no chance of making the necessary adjustment, but look like a weirdo making some lousy taps and talking to myself
Experience	Bad

Use Case	Fitting in my ear
Expectation	The airpod will have a secure option to keep it on the ears all the time
Reality	My ears are not “designed” to fit airpods. Everytime I tap on one ear, the airpod on the other ear gets loose and become a risk of losing. It becomes an comical act while traveling in a public transport
Experience	Bad

After 3 days of use, I wonder if this is a product designed by the same Apple designer team - what a disappointment!

I love to hate this and don’t hate to love this new electronic addition.

Update 1: I tried to adopt the limitation and make the best use of this airpod. I am not a big fan of returning a purchased merchandise, even if the wholesale retailer provisions that option

Update 2: After 1 week, it is not working out. I am losing the airpod even while climbing the stairs. I am forced to return this. I will stick to the wired, over the ear, headphones, for now.

This is a very short love story. The wait and the anticipation to own this pair of airpods was much longer and sweeter than actually owning it. Goodbye, AirPods!