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Hasn't the problem been solved decades ago, with car-kits?

It seems that what's old is new again ...



No, as evidenced by the fact that you can almost always hear when a participant calls in from their car. When they start talking, you hear the road noise in the background.

The only thing car-kits seemed to do was add minimum cut-offs before transmitting and make use of directional microphones.


No, not even close. The problem space is still mostly unsolved.


Of all companies poised to solve it, I think Apple could do it if they wanted. They could embed microphones in the laptop frame and integrate it with the camera as a premium feature, since they control the hardware and software stack.

It's more practical than a touch bar, at least.


What’s a car-kit? Just googled but didn’t find anything relevant


Those adapters that let you use your phone through the audio system of your car (adapter does the noise-cancelling).


Ah I see never heard of them


What do you mean by car-kits?




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