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Your personal diatribe here is an insult to the intelligence of other members, who prefer to think for themselves.
As Steve Martin used to say, "Well, excuuUUUUUuuse me!"
I'm just another worker who's trying to the serve the company.
Christian Massey, 21, was fatally shot for his Dr. Dre Beats headphones during a robbery attempt Saturday in Philadelphia. According to NBC Philadelphia, Christian Massey was shot in an alley as children played nearby on Lebanon Avenue sidewalk. The fact that children were nearby didn’t deter the gunman.The armed man first demanded Massey’s Dr. Dre Beats headphones. Massey did not comply and tried to run, witnesses say. The suspect shot five rounds, striking and killing Massey. The headphones lay near Massey’s lifeless body. He had purchased them for about $300 on Black Friday. Source: NBC Philadelphia We live among savages who have no qualms about taking what’s not theirs. If you have any information about the shooting and the suspect, please call the Philadelphia Police Department.
Hey, guess what thieves are also stealing besides high-end smartphones—high-end headphones often used with high-end smartphones! One of the hot theft targets in the city these days, besides smartphones, are pretty much any variation of the colorful Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Will Bloomberg blame the victims for this crime trend, too? The Post today points out that the pricey headphones are "the new rage among bandits" because they are a status symbol. According to a police source, "They’re very hot among thieves. It’s like, 'I see it. I want it. I can have it. I’m taking it for me, or my sister needs a pair.'"In north Brooklyn alone there have been dozens of Beats stolen in the past four months. Still, getting exact numbers on how many Beats have been lifted is tricky, as police suspect their thefts are underreported (since they are untraceable and are rarely insured). Anecdotal evidence and police sources, however, show a growing problem that has even spread into "trendy" neighborhoods like Brooklyn Heights. That's where, on April 17, a teen had his Beats stolen—and was punched in the face for the trouble. This is why we like to wear cheap-looking, non-ostentatious headphones when we're walking around or riding the subway. Clearly, what the world now needs are the headphone equivalent of SNL's classic Chameleon XLE:
In the meantime I think the right thing to do here is stay focused on the actual product, which objectively is actually better than similar items from Beyer and Sennheiser.
It's true that the rap/thug/gangsta culture instilled hate and disrespect for police into a lot of urban young people, and the result came out clearly in the St. Louis shooting. The young man, initially described as "an unarmed boy", or "a good boy on his way to college", was a heckuva lot different from reality. But the liberal establishment has dug themselves into deep bunkers on police brutality issues, so just mentioning these things can get you shunned by family and friends.So I don't know what's most important to people - probably just the stuff they see on the news. But until someone faces the fact that a lot of urban youth have an irrational understanding of police responsibility and authority, the festering wound keeps festering.Never mind that South Central L.A. and their sympathizers held a figurative gun to the authorities' heads in 1992, demanding a second trial for the 4 police officers, until their own brand of lynching was held up in court. Federal re-trials for extreme civil-rights murderers and such in the 1960's? I'm all for it. But re-trials of officers who were already tried in open court with all evidence presented 100 times over and fully broadcast on national TV? I'm against that - it makes a joke of the criminal justice system.Two years later, with fear of more uprisings, the L.A. court made a special deal to give Simpson a racially favorable jury in the criminal trial, and an opposite jury in the civil trial. Totally predictable, and a total setup. And predictably, a couple years later, Simpson shot himself in the foot figuratively, much like the guy from 1992.So how do you stop the record companies from distributing harmful material to underage people? Put stickers on the records? What a joke that is. If the older teens have it, everyone will get access to it. Society's normal barriers to indecency have been abandoned on the altar of "free speech", while *real* free speech is ridiculed by the media as "conspiracy" talk.
Actually, no. I was responding to the other guy who was continually beating up on Beats and Dre for political reasons, which had nothing to do with headphones. Now why don't you go correct him first?
Actually, no. I tried to cut the thing off well before that but the other guy wouldn't let it go, and nobody said anything then. You can't be selective like that - you should have stopped the Beats and Dre bashing back then.
Beyer is one of those brands I know little about, and that I don't pay attention too anyways.But, we can't do anything about Hitler. He's gone. Those evil Germans made the first car, the first freeway system, and the MP3 so that's not going to prevent me from driving my Ford on I95 listening to music.But, Dr. Dre is a person we can rally against.
I suspect that most of us reading or responding on this thread are not the target demographic that the Beats by Dr.Dre brand wishes to reach. Even if we were to totally boycott any of Apple's future Beats offerings we could not significantly impact Apples plans or the worth of the Beats brand in the marketplace. We can rant about what we may see as wrong with the situation but the purchase of Beats by Apple legitimizes the Beats brand in many peoples eyes and will potentially broaden its appeal for purchase by a wider market. Essentially, for those that subscribe to it, if Apple makes it, it has to be good. Scotty
Sometimes, I just listen to mixes on YouTube or other websites and I just want to enjoy the music and not care if it is a low-resolution MP3.
So true Just the other day I was trying to estimate time listening on my sub $50 headphones, vs. expensive ones, vs. speakers... the ratio is probably 75-5-20, respectively...
And Dre is not a "leader" any more than he is a headphone designer; his contribution to the original Beats' development was reportedly saying, "That's the sh!t" when they brought him the second or third prototype.
