Bose have no mindshare among most people under 35. Beats are the most popular headphones brand among most young people and are the leader in Bluetooth audio sales
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Apple Launches New Beats Studio 3 Wireless 'Skyline' Collection
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There's also a new special edition for Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday Beats Solo 3 announced on the website.
Only Apple has the nerve to charge the same price on an updated product that they were charging before!
In all fairness, is changing the color really an "update"?
It depends on the type of music you listen to if you like hip-hop, r&b or most modern popular music Beats has the ideal sound profile.
Well, to be fair, the W3 has BT 5.0 which has twice the speed, four times the range, and even lower energy usage which means longer battery life. BT 5.0 has been shipping in iOS devices since the iPhone 8/X. Having a W3 chip without WiFi for headphones would be useful and something we're likely to see in future AirPods.
I have yet to find a product with zero compromise. Product design and development is all about managing engineering and other compromises.
Beats is a cash cow that paid for itself years ago. They were doing 1.5 billion in revenue before Apple bought them.
Apple bought beats mainly for Iovine, Dre and the streaming service. The headphones were a freebie that have since generated billions. An outside the park home run.
I'm not a beats fan but does anyone know of any other decent brand(s) doing something in these types of color palettes?
I don't give a fawk what y'all think, that powder blue and gold combo is *drool*
I don't give a fawk what y'all think, that powder blue and gold combo is *drool*
My point was they COULD make them cheaper so more can or would want to buy them, quality aside. I also have a Steelseries headset that cost 350.00 for my gaming. That's worth it. But not these.
Hideous colors for $350 I should be able to pick my own color for every segment of the set.... $350 for something truly one of a kind... trust me I'll mentally mock you if you walk by wearing one of these.... LOL
You might be wrong about the wireless chips as the other poster suggested. I don’t know enough to comment about it. But you are definitely right about mini-USB... one of the worst connectors in relative history. Make a decision, Apple, Beats Solo and Studio are either USB-c or Lightning, but pick one FFS. mini-USB on a $349 pair of headphones from Apple heading into 2019 is just lazy.
I just ordered a pair of Beats studio 3's. My Master & Dynamic MW60's broke (the microusb port broke a pin). They quoted me up to $300 to repair the broken pin.
Like everyone else, I was not a fan of the "beats" sound, but I listened to a set of Studio 3's the other day in a couple different stores (Apple and best buy) with different music and spoken word sources, and they are good enough for my purposes, and seemed a better investment than putting the money into fixing the M&D's that may break again in 2 years. I think the sound got a lot less bassy between the studio 2's and studio 3's. At least if the beats break I won't feel as bad. And having the W1 auto-switch between my mac, iphone and iPad will be a treat.
Am going to miss the non-plastic M&D's, though :-(
Like everyone else, I was not a fan of the "beats" sound, but I listened to a set of Studio 3's the other day in a couple different stores (Apple and best buy) with different music and spoken word sources, and they are good enough for my purposes, and seemed a better investment than putting the money into fixing the M&D's that may break again in 2 years. I think the sound got a lot less bassy between the studio 2's and studio 3's. At least if the beats break I won't feel as bad. And having the W1 auto-switch between my mac, iphone and iPad will be a treat.
Am going to miss the non-plastic M&D's, though :-(
They didn't raise the price. Same price. New colors.
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Every night. I see players with Beats on all the time.
Here's Odell Beckham warming up a month ago with some Beats on.
Here he is again last week:
When's the last time you watched sports?
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With Beats it's always been about the name. They sound cr@p compared to headphones half the price from Sennheiser or AKG.
Why do you think Apple bought them? A product with ridiculous profit margins.
