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- See, this might be ok if there were two of them. But now when the battery gets low you are required to stop listening.
  
  Sell the problem, sell the solution. 😒
  
  I see your point but, isn't this more cumbersome than wired earbuds/headphones?
  
  Sure, but what's the use case at this point anyway?
  "My bluetooth headset ran out of battery and my phone ran out of battery and I want to listen to music." How often does that really happen?
  Bluetooth is less cumbersome than all of these choices, but for under a tenner you can solve all these drawbacks. Whack it in a pocket of your travel bag with your earbuds and away you go. I genuinely couldn't even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones. My bluetooth AKGs actually have a headphone socket, that I've used exactly twice. Once to watch an in flight movie on a 480p screen on the back of a headrest, and again to use them with my Switch since for some bonkers reason it didn't support bluetooth headphones for ages, despite having a BT receiver on board. No idea where the cable is for them now. I doubt I'll need it again.
  
  I genuinely couldn’t even tell you the last time I saw somebody in real life with wired headphones.
  You haven't seen me walking my dog daily then /shrug
  
  I travel 8+ hours by train several times a week, and regularly go a day or two without access to power where I sleep. By all means, I'm not the average consumer, but the situation of "need to change while also wanting to use my headset" comes up often enough.
  
  Now that's just perverse. 😳

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