Re: Comfort?
Almost certainly alluding to the fact that their experience doesn't match his, and because of reasons, he must be wrong, because we are a homogenous lived experience now, big tech tells us so.
(I've already demonstrated that by referring to Charlie as a he, when I don't know them)
Headphone style is a weird one, the people that swear by over-ear headphones probably don't suffer from (or at least aren't bothered by it).
- Having to wear glasses like Charlie (and myself).
- Getting really hot ears from the over-earness of the headphones. Personally, I haven't found a pair of over-ear headphones that I can wear for longer than 30 minutes.
- On ears are better, but still not great
I get on with in-ears quite well, and from a "mobile headset" point of view I'm a big fan of the Bose QC earbuds, and the Sony WF-1000MX3 (or MX4) in-ears. 2 pairs because if you go on a flight longer than 6 hours...
However, from a usability point of view, earbuds are pointless in an office environment because the pickup from the mic broadcasts everything (by office environment, my home office is 2 person, and when you're both on calls it doesn't end well).
If it's purely for remote working then I would go for the aeroshokz/aftershokz opencomm, bone conductors with mic.
It's in the same price range as these, I can wear them all day, I can hear the doorbell when the postman comes, and for me, the mic is on the correct side of my face (I sit to the right, which means the mic hanging off the left ear makes a difference in sound pickup)