That's my other beef: 5 hours of battery life on the Airpods, are you kidding me? I was interested until they got to that dopey box you charge them in and told us they only ran for 5 hours of listening. That's pathetic.
Honestly, 5 hours is quite impressive for such a small thing. And it certainly goes beyond my need for casual use. Would anyone listening to music more than 5 hours in a stretch really use the airpods anyway?
Hopefully iPhone 7 will be forward compatible with Bluetooth 5, and will really spark the market for good quality Bluetooth 5 headphones with longer battery life.
Although the box is dopey, it's probably quite important to keep people from loosing the airpods, and to make it easier and quicker to charge them. You know that the box also contains a battery right? There's 24 hours of capacity there.
Wireless just isn't worth it for these peripherals - earphones, headsets, keyboards, mice. Even if the battery life is a year, it will still go flat at some annoying time when you want to type/listen/make a call.
