Seriously. Walk around Best Buy and tell me how many other in-ear Bluetooth ear buds you find for under $200. Price is not an issue here.
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Seriously. Walk around Best Buy and tell me how many other in-ear Bluetooth ear buds you find for under $200. Price is not an issue here.
After 46 hrs, I have 5% case battery remaining. AirPods at 100%. LOVE THEM!!!
I'm very curious what long term demand will be for this particular model.
Reviewers (who got it free) are praising them. People who ride the hype train are paying double on eBay. And the initial group of super fans (myself included) just seem to love anything Fromm apple. But for the general public then they may feel alienated by the price or just uninterested.
I do like mine but I'm already ready for 2.0 where more controls are offered either with physical buttons on the case or touch control on the earpiece themselves. Because right now Siri just isn't cutting it.
Reviewers (who got it free) are praising them. People who ride the hype train are paying double on eBay. And the initial group of super fans (myself included) just seem to love anything Fromm apple. But for the general public then they may feel alienated by the price or just uninterested.
I do like mine but I'm already ready for 2.0 where more controls are offered either with physical buttons on the case or touch control on the earpiece themselves. Because right now Siri just isn't cutting it.
In 2016, Apple introduced the Next Big Thing in tech, and only a few noticed.
They're perfectly priced, too, as the very strong demand implies.
They're perfectly priced, too, as the very strong demand implies.
They are overpriced, all wireless headphones are. It isn't just the Apple headphones.
Most of us could probably "afford" to pay that much for headphones. That's not it, Apple realizes there are ppl gullible enough to over pay for their product accessories, just so they can flaunt it around to everyone they know. It is a status symbol to many. And yes I know some ppl are willing to pay for quality also. But I believe it is mainly for vanity purposes.
that should really help with those quality control issues 
how about much better audio quality, much better battery life and sweat proof for the same price? I actually prefer the cable
http://www.jaybirdsport.com/shop/freedom-product/
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https://earin.com/
or
https://www.bragi.com/thedash/
Kanoa
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Samsung Gear IconX
https://dailytekk.com/the-7-best-truly-wireless-earbuds/?reading=continue
how about much better audio quality, much better battery life and sweat proof for the same price? I actually prefer the cable
http://www.jaybirdsport.com/shop/freedom-product/
or
https://earin.com/
or
https://www.bragi.com/thedash/
Kanoa
or
Samsung Gear IconX
https://dailytekk.com/the-7-best-truly-wireless-earbuds/?reading=continue
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Exactly.
My girlfriend (the typical non-techie person) is completely delighted by the product, and she uses it all the time, even in sigle ear mode for phone calls.
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I took my AirPods back - I bought two sets together on the 19th December for my wife and I on xmas day. I noticed the battery drain on mine all day on the 25th so I googled and nothing, then a couple of days ago info started to surface with people having the same issues...
Fast forward to this morning and I changed my AirPods and refunded my wifes (They fall out of her ears). I have just charged them and I am hoping these are better. When I spoke to the Apple Rep he seemed to think the 24 hours of battery time is standby time. I said so you expect everyone to charge their AirPods every night and he said yes.. I said its 24 hours listening time not standby time yet everyone in the shop agreed with each other and made out I had got it all wrong.. Go figure! They did finally allow me to change the AirPods though. Talk about poor training!
Fast forward to this morning and I changed my AirPods and refunded my wifes (They fall out of her ears). I have just charged them and I am hoping these are better. When I spoke to the Apple Rep he seemed to think the 24 hours of battery time is standby time. I said so you expect everyone to charge their AirPods every night and he said yes.. I said its 24 hours listening time not standby time yet everyone in the shop agreed with each other and made out I had got it all wrong.. Go figure! They did finally allow me to change the AirPods though. Talk about poor training!
Apple's work. That's what pays for the campus. They create products, sell them to people, generate profits, build stuff, create more products and so on. They are not taking the money from you, you are willingly giving it to them and in return buying their product. So yes, it is their money.
I wasn't planning to get a pair, but after using them for 30 minutes or so, I want some. They're surprisingly good.
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Ouch. Lmao.
'Sensible' price is not cheap..., its realistic. Apple just chose to do the 'magic' technology they do..
As we know in software, that's hard to come by working 100%
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I ordered about 2-3 hours after they were announced available. The initial ship date was Jan 12. Instead, they shipped and were received Dec 28.
I like them.
No battery case issues here.
I like them.
No battery case issues here.
Pretty sure I have a little drain too, but I have yet to run out of batteries - so it doesn't seem to effect my day to day
I think at this point, Apple is done giving sales figures for all their products. The expectations were probably hurting their company. For ex: they sale 3 million v1 Airpods, then v2 comes out and they only sale 2.9 million. Que the doom day music and people saying Apple is done. Plus, it keep competitors on their toes.
Airpods are far the best product that they have brought out this year without a doubt
Love mine. No battery drain issues for me. Whoever was in charge of this product should be promoted. This really reminds me of the Jobs era Apple.
Overpriced as in 'huge profit margins'? As in 'they could sell it at a third of the price and would still make a profit'?
I think what you mean is 'still too expensive'. But you simply cannot help it and reflexively attribute everything negative (priced at a multiple of wired earbuds) to 'lower motives' (overpriced aka overcharging aka huge profit margin).
In fact, most posts on the internet complaining about something fall into that trap of attributing everything 'bad' to 'lower motives' because they represent unfiltered human instinct. Human instinct has changed very little on an evolutionary basis from what it was before advanced civilisation emerged. Civilisation is adding filters to that human instinct but the internet has in many places removed such filters.
I hate to be "that guy", but didn't Apple see the buzz for these things? They were always going to be enormous. I wanted to get a pair for my wife for her birthday, got delayed. Wanted to get it for her for Christmas, but I didn't order them within the first 15 minutes of availability so that was done. Now I am hoping for Valentine's Day. Thanks Tim.
The price is very competitive in the "truly wireless" market.
Well, just because other manufacturers sell overpriced headphones and you can find people to buy them doesn't mean the price is sensible - it just means you can sell them at that price. I would agree that while the wireless features are nice, they are too expensive for what are generally agreed to be average-quality headphones. If they are selling well, Apple has little incentive to drop the price.
Again, there is a lot of new tech and design incorporated in these, so anyone buying them is essentially an early adopter and is paying for the development of that tech. If Apple does license the W1 chip as they have said, we can expect more devices from competitors and more selection in terms of price, color, features, fit, etc.
Again, there is a lot of new tech and design incorporated in these, so anyone buying them is essentially an early adopter and is paying for the development of that tech. If Apple does license the W1 chip as they have said, we can expect more devices from competitors and more selection in terms of price, color, features, fit, etc.
I still don't understand this, the Airpods have been shown to survive submersion and going through a laundry cycle.....after that who really thinks sweat is going to be the downfall of a set of Airpods?
Overpriced? I sold 8 of them for around 3k before xmas and netted around 2k. Nope, just have to be smart and hope every launch is this easy to take advantage of.
As far as demand goes, it was right before the holidays on a product meant to mitigate the loss of headphone jack on newest iphone. Combine that with the fact this is perhaps Apple's coolest product of the year and all (probably since the first apple watch).
As far as demand goes, it was right before the holidays on a product meant to mitigate the loss of headphone jack on newest iphone. Combine that with the fact this is perhaps Apple's coolest product of the year and all (probably since the first apple watch).