Rowkin Bit Stereo True Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds
- These cute l’il thangs will put music straight into your brain without wires.
- They’re Bluetooth, obvs.
- It comes with a portable charger that is as sleek as the buds themselves.
- WaterSafe nano coating technology makes them great for sweat-inducing athletic activities like running, lifting, or mowing the lawn.
- Some have reported connectivity issues, but this CAN be fixed pretty easily with a factory reset.
- Model: NAAB10AC, which looks like it’s pronounced like “Nab” but really it rhymes with “Saab.”
The Problem With Style
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a child. Let’s call him @Dave. Dave wore Sears-brand Toughskin jeans. They were, as their name implied, durable and long-lasting. But, like most economically practical things, corners needed to be cut to keep them affordable, and, unfortunately for Dave, the corner Toughskin jeans cut was the let’s-make-these-things-look-cool corner.
Or maybe not unfortunately. Because Dave rarely felt self-conscious in his Toughskin jeans. What did make him feel self-conscious was when, in the mid-80s, his grandparents splurged and got him a Generra sweatshirt. It was “in.” Very “in.” In fact, you could say that it was so deeply “in” that the brand couldn’t find its way out of the decade.
Suddenly, all the other kids at school were stopping Dave in the hallway to say, “Cool sweatshirt,” and, after years of remaining invisible behind the Toughskin curtain, he didn’t know how to react to such a compliment. It was uncomfortable.
Dave has come a long way since then… or has he? No, he doesn’t wear Toughskin jeans anymore, but he still has a Toughskin mindset. He’s not afraid of bright purple laptops or speakers that are loud in both function and design. This, in some ways, is his calling: espousing the virtues of things that don’t look exactly like you’d hope but work just fine.
But he doesn’t exactly know what to do with these slick-looking Rowkin Bluetooth Ear Buds.
Does he say: just because Meh sells some stuff that has substance but lacks style does NOT mean the stylish stuff we sell lacks substance in equal measure? Does he point out that many of the negative reviews on Amazon that have driven the average rating down to an unimpressive 3 stars can be put into 3 categories:
- people complaining about the hefty (non-Meh) price tag;
- people who struggled with a weird issue that was corrected easily by a factory reset; and
- people hating on Bluetooth technology as a whole?
Does he mention that many reviews were impressed with both their size and sound quality (and again, that those people were reviewing after, presumably, paying some 50 bucks more the price they are offered at here)?
No. @Dave does none of these things. He has a copywriter do it, duh.
