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When Apple pulled the headphone jack off the iPhone 7, it also unveiled a new set of wireless earbuds called AirPods, that it claimed were so great that users wouldn’t mind the missing headphone jack. Then the AirPods didn’t come out for nearly three months after the iPhone, but now that they’re here, they’ve solved every problem an iPhone 7-using music lover could have, right?
Oh, heavens no. Like so many Apple products before them, the AirPods bring with them as big of a problem as they’re solving. With no onboard buttons, the AirPods require users to ask Siri to do everything from changing a track to adjusting the volume, and Siri just doesn’t have the same abilities in all music apps—an arbitrary restriction set by Apple to steer you toward Apple Music.
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