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Nicky Woolf: Apple's AirPods changed everything. They gave the company near-monopolistic power over users.
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PSA/Rant: Apple's new AirPods commercial (“Bounce”) has the phrase “Hey Siri” in the commercial, which gets my HomePod to play the song. Every. Time. It. Plays. It makes me want to disconnect
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