sorry I explained myself badly, I prefer bose over IEMs for aesthetics, methods of use, they seem more elegant to me (not that they are bad IEMs, but another style)
Yeah that's part of Bose's target market, hence the parallel example ie that's also why people why Macbooks (taht belong in some chic firm) over Thinkpads (that even your mobile phone carrier probably has at the counter) or Strix Scar (that is basically the
The Fast and The Furious of computers, right down to the bright multicolored lighting).
...I prefer them because they are over ear and they "incorporate" my ears, instead of having to insert them inside, even if IEMs will certainly be comfortable too...
The other part of what makes Bose like Macs?
They just work. Charge them, make sure ANC is on, connect via BT.
IEMs may not work out of the box. At minimum you need to try the other tips for how well they can seal your ears, then order more of that size. Since they don't have their own amplifier matched to their drivers you can run into some problems with some IEMs needing more power or making the amp circuit or audio chip they're connected to have problems because the impedance is too low etc. Kind of like how you flip on a Mac, update iOS and apps, and it's done - by contrast two years ago people couldn't figure out why some laptops were running slow on games and apparently when the CPU is by AMD the laptop assumes its own Vega8 iGPU can run almost anything that it sometimes refuses to call the NVidia dGPU to take over. Or the fan noise is too loud and apparently that extra 5dB to 10dB only netted 2fps in games.
Well in the end as I said in the beginning I want to try Bose, because it is praised by everyone for different aspects and I wanted to see if it actually is a listening experience as they say or not...
If you consider Bose users like Mac users then of course they'll say it sounds good and in terms of convenience,
it just works without making you want to throw it at the wall.
Obviously a Mac user doesn't gauge performance like how an Alienware M15 or MSI GE76HX user will define performance. One will only use Geekbench or DaVinci resolve for example. The other will use Adobe Premiere plus Total War, Call of Duty, Control, Cyberbpunk 2077...
In short if you're asking about Bose performance in this forum you're very likely to hear not so positive feedback on anything but the Soundlinks or the Nissan/Infiniti they didn't want to void warranties on by having somebody custom graft a Focal or DLS system into it.
As for the brand, I've decided to go with Bose, I'm undecided about the model that suits me: even the in ear quietcomforts don't look bad, but they cost a lot.
That has to do with miniaturizing the wireless stuff they have. It's like how a clunky MSI Katana will be faster than an Alienware X14 if they had the same chips and for half the money.
The bose sport earbuds are also nice but they don't have anc and they say they protrude too much from the ear ... I don't know about this I'm Undecided.
I think that has to do with making sure it's visible you have earphones on while also not providing a technology that makes you not hear somebody honking at you because their brakes failed.
Mine has become a bit of a Bose fix, I hope I won't be disappointed.
I'll put it this way: if you're not trying to play games other than emulating older console games or running iOS games on a larger Macbook Pro screen, then you won't really care about how amazingly smooth Control runs on an m17 with an RTX 3080.
Basically: if have no idea what Focal, Sennheiser, AKG, HiFiMan, Audeze, etc sound like, can't tell the difference, or just don't care, then Bose will always be amazing, well beyond "it sounds better than Anker and unlike those Polk Audio plastic speakers at least I can just haul the Soundlink back inside after this BBQ" ways that some people appreciate that particular product line for example.