To Apple's credit, your music will stop as soon as one AirPod leaves your earhole. It serves two purposes: so you don't have to press pause when someone starts talking to you, and to give you a heads-up whenever one AirPod drops out of your ear. If you're somewhere busy, like a crowded train platform, that immediate notification could be vital to retrieving it. Otherwise, the allure of Apple's AirPods is a tangle-free lifestyle, convenient pairing and charging. It's doubly useful if you have the iPhone 7 with its non-existent 3.55mm jack. (Yeah, I'm still annoyed about it.)