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I have a big problem with the tap to pause feature on the SONY XM4 headphones as I feel like it is designed without consideration of the speaker. It’s all fine that the listener can hear the speaker fine (still slightly muffled though) but to the speaker all they see is someone wearing headphones. Speaking is also visual – you adapt your speech to the listeners visual cues and body language, so to speak to someone wearing these headphones – even though I know they can hear me – is such an uncomfortable experience. But maybe this is a way to identify those who really care? And it is up to the user to take their headphones down to listen? Technology is really making one of these behaviours easier regardless. Maybe the ease that technology affords should not impact the effort we take to be sensitive..

In any case I typed all that by double-tapping capslock instead of using shift and only realised this as I am typing this sentence. So this exercise has failed to serve its purpose.

/ShiftPoster