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AirPods Pro to Feature New Colors, Including Black and Midnight Green, According to Chinese Report

IF true (counting on no)....in terms of colours, I’ve always wanted black Airpods, & never liked gold coloured iPhones, but the gold AirPods are the nearest to skin colour for me, so may be a sleeper out of the four 🤔
 
I hate to say it but that design does not look like it will fit in ear very well.
 
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Of course they will sell a ******** of them. They need to differentiate the pro with a color or maybe metal as someone suggested.

I believe people will want others to know they have the pro model. Some will buy it for this reason alone.
 
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All of this leading to a usual event with new MacBook Pro ‘16 and hopefully these, I’m all in forsure and I guess now is the time to sell my beats solos that came with purchase of MacBook that I never usef
 
I was really looking forward to these, because I lost my 2nd generation AirPods on a cruise, and trying to use wired EarPods was driving me crazy.
(Un)fortunately, I found my lost AirPods in the washing machine. They still seem to work fine despite being run through a cycle. Now I can’t justify buying a new pair.
 
doelcm82 said:
I was really looking forward to these, because I lost my 2nd generation AirPods on a cruise, and trying to use wired EarPods was driving me crazy.
(Un)fortunately, I found my lost AirPods in the washing machine. They still seem to work fine despite being run through a cycle. Now I can’t justify buying a new pair.
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No need to justify the purchase. Just go for it. Ask yourself if your worth it?
 
Nrwrit3r said:
It’ll be hard for me to justify the short lifespan of the product (~2 years of good battery) to pay $270+ for these. If they lasted as long as my Bose noise cancelling (approx same price) that would be one thing, but the tiny batteries do not appear to have a long lifespan. Perhaps they will increase battery life on these to 10 hours and then it might be worth it (50% degradation would get you back to original airpods new)...only time will tell!
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Maybe one day Apple will innovate replaceable batteries.
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inplainview said:
Great. If they could just make them sound better.
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With a mic as good as the Earpods.
 
It looks like this design will stick quite far out of the ear (sideways, I don't mean the stick at the bottom). I don't think that will look very good. I like the competing designs better I think. But let's see what they look like in real life.
 
Hopefully they'll finally have a rubber earpiece that will offer more comfort and prevent them from coming out so easily... kind of like my $10 amazon headphones have had for 15 years. Nothing like shoving a hard piece of non-ergonomic plastic in your ear. "These hurt like heck, but I'm gonna look really cool wearing them". I realize they work with some people but AirPods don't work for everyone.
 
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Apple doesn't have to wait for the "big event" to announce products. Release it ASAP with a press release...a hasty event at Apple Park.
 
Black, Green or White... I don't care, as long as I get em before I jump on a plane in a few months. My OGs are really struggling with battery levels. I'm shocked they will feature ANC, but anything better than the current airpods in either passive or active NC will be great. And of course these surely will feature better quality sound... although I'd imagine not by a great deal. Still anything better is welcome.

Looking forward to these more than the 16inch laptop.
 
anthogag said:
Apple doesn't have to wait for the "big event" to announce products. Release it ASAP with a press release...a hasty event at Apple Park.
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True, but those big events are very important. For the past few years, they've been the best comedy skits around.
 
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I’m guessing a November event right before the Apple TV+ launch to reiterate how great it is as it’s one of the major cashcows in the horizon.
 
Looks like Tim found a way to (again) disguise the flagging iPhone sales. They’re going to sell a ton of these at $259 and make up for much of the lost iPhone sales. Easier to disguise the loss of revenue with these. I almost can’t believe it.
 
SBlue1 said:
Camo green? God forbid you lose one in the park, you will never find it again...
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I don’t think there will be a perfect color that will make it stand out from your surroundings. When I was shoveling snow last winter, I didn’t realize one of the pods fell off my ear until I finished shoveling. Good luck finding white airpods under the snow. Fortunately, I was able to use my iPhone to beep it and I found it buried under a foot of snow in my backyard.
 
Greenmeenie said:
I wonder if these will stay in ears better than the previous gen.
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What would lead you to believe that the first GEN AirPods wouldn’t stay in the ears? I mean, Apple is pretty much using the same design as the wired EarPods, and I suspect those fit the majority of consumers out there. I think the AirPods are not a ‘perfect’ fit for everyone, but they probably are compatible with the majority of ears. I doubt Apple will change the design hardly at all for in terms of fitment.
 
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