Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 April 29

= April 29 =

what item or named products has this?
I was going through old junk/ stuff in storage boxes, and I had an earbud like; this one. (the picture with a yellow arrow, as mine looked like a pet sat/sit on top of it and stepped on it for a day or 2. Where the volume speaker is placed at. With out the rubber end part.) Does other company places makes/ sell those. At a store like target, walgreens, or whatnot? And nowadays they have one "with the rubber end part", where it has something that looks like this, my ear somehow has an itch, if I use those type of earbuds for a while; a few minutes to a hour. 2601:640:C680:2E10:A9EA:964A:2037:1664 (talk) 20:13, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
 * It appears that you are describing the Apple EarPods that come with the iPhone. If you want the genuine Apple model, you'll probably have to buy it directly from Apple | here if you want the model with the Lightning connector (for the iPhone 7 and newer without a 3.5 mm jack) or | here if you want the model with the 3.5 mm connector. If you're willing to accept a non-genuine model, they can be found on Amazon or other online retailers, but quality may vary greatly. TheMrP (talk) 20:54, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Spike in pageviews for Money
What on earth happened here? Suzukaze-c (talk) 23:33, 29 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Weird spikes are not uncommon. In previous discussions, I think it was generally explained as being due to web crawlers or other bots getting hung up on something. Wikipedia is one of the largest and most popular sites on the net, so it's not unusual for people to focus on this site (and therefore for the errors to occur while they're here). For a more obscure item, it could be an example of the Slashdot effect, but that seems unlikely for a generic term like "money". Matt Deres (talk) 13:32, 30 April 2018 (UTC)