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Easy to believe. This is the best Apple product since the original iPhone. This does beg the question. They're able to ramp up production for the iPhone X and meet demand within one month, but still can't keep up with AirPods a year later? Either the AirPods are seeing demand of proportions unseen any any product of any kind in history ... or the iPhone X is just a meh product.
 
Apple could obviously sell ice to a penguin.

It’s not just any ice though. It’s Apple Ice. Therefore you’ll pay a premium but it’s worth every penny due to the thinner, faster and lighter design of the ice. Johnny Ive and his team spent minutes formulating the magical design of the ice in order to deliver the best ice experience penguins could ever hope to achieve. Until next year when Apple Ice 2 is released featuring a redesigned IceOS interface.
 
It’s funny. I’m willing to drop more than $1000 on an iPhone X but not another $159 in addition to that on AirPods. I’d love to have a pair but I just know that I’m going to lose one or both of them. I might as well take $160 and light it on fire.

How well does “Find My AirPods” work? I have enough trouble keeping track of my Apple TV remote, iPhone and Apple Watch. I wish Apple would use Bluetooth to allow users to have the iPhone emit an audio tone if you’re looking for one of those other devices and are near it but can’t see it.


Find my AirPods is pretty useless.

If they’re both in the case, it can only tell you the location they were last used.

For me the question is always did I bring them home, or have I left them at the office. It’ll always show them as at the office unless I’ve actively used them since I got home. But given I can’t find them, I probably haven’t used them....

The only good thing is if you lose under cushions etc you can it to play a noise.
 
Easy to believe. This is the best Apple product since the original iPhone. This does beg the question. They're able to ramp up production for the iPhone X and meet demand within one month, but still can't keep up with AirPods a year later? Either the AirPods are seeing demand of proportions unseen any any product of any kind in history ... or the iPhone X is just a meh product.

Honestly, here in Italy I’ve never seen this level of excitement for a phone since the Motorola RAZR. it’s a frenzy.
 
Honestly, here in Italy I’ve never seen this level of excitement for a phone since the Motorola RAZR. it’s a frenzy.
Maybe people should buy more Italian products instead of so many iPhones.
 
AirPods might be Apple's best product (features, technology, and price) in a long time. The only credible criticism is design and that is almost always subjective. Doesn't surprise me that demand is still high for them.
 
Honestly, here in Italy I’ve never seen this level of excitement for a phone since the Motorola RAZR. it’s a frenzy.

Frenzy doesn’t equate to sales. Everyone I know that has an iPhone is drooling over the X. But none of they buy it. Everyone is either going with the 7 or the 8. The first thing they all mention is that $1k starting price.
 
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Does anyone else find the terminology in this article a bit odd?

Shipping times have slipped to 2 weeks, that’s all.

Shipping times for airpods have been poor all year, but this is the first time I think they’ve referred to to them as “sold out”
 
Never thought it would be this popular.
It's pretty highly priced too, but competitor products are priced the same way.

At the moment, I find the design strange on people who wear them, and I'm afraid about the fact that these are two antennas really close to my head, transferring data through my brain. Too bad research is lacking on cancer and antennas so close to the vital parts of the body.
 
Yeah, use mine daily . For daily duties they are great

I’ll be getting mine under the tree in a week’s time, can’t wait. I listen to music on my iPhone w/ headphones at work everyday while I slog away at financials. When it was revealed that music would pause when you take one out (which I constantly do when someone comes into the office), I was sold. Instantly. These will be amazing.

I agree with others here, I’m starting to see people wearing them everywhere I go.
 
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I really don’t like them - the design or the function; or the sound on testing them.

But clearly a lot of people do like them. I guess head/ear-phones are as much a personal choice as other items like watch straps or jackets or lunch.

And their popularity is a good thing, as it might encourage Apple to create new and more diverse head/ear-phone solutions.
They already do through the Beats brand
 
It’s funny. I’m willing to drop more than $1000 on an iPhone X but not another $159 in addition to that on AirPods. I’d love to have a pair but I just know that I’m going to lose one or both of them. I might as well take $160 and light it on fire.

How well does “Find My AirPods” work? I have enough trouble keeping track of my Apple TV remote, iPhone and Apple Watch. I wish Apple would use Bluetooth to allow users to have the iPhone emit an audio tone if you’re looking for one of those other devices and are near it but can’t see it.
As long as you put them back in the case after each use you should never lose one
 
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