Apple Removes Beats Landing Page From Website Ahead of Tuesday's Launch Event [Update: Restored]

[Haust]

I bought a pair of the new Beat Solo Pro's last week. These are the ones with the noise cancelling. I took a flight to Seattle and OMG! I literally had to take a break from wearing them about every 15 minutes because they were freaking crushing my ears sooooooo bad. They hurt so bad, I'm not even kidding. I thought I'd be ok, because I have a rather small head, but no! These things are torture devices. On the plus side, they did sound really good.

I returned them and bought the new Sony's instead. Much better and a hell of lot more comfortable.

 

[m00f]

It seems this will be proper studio/producer headphones, so not headphones to listen to music but to produce it; they won't be bass-heave for sure, but they will probably be very neutral so not really suited for casual listening anyway.

You serious? Why would Apple release a product for an extremely small pro market? Additionally, anyone even half serious about producing music needs wired headphone for latency and quality reasons.. Apple obviously ain’t releasing wired headphones

 

[deevey]

You serious? Why would Apple release a product for an extremely small pro market? Additionally, anyone even half serious about producing music needs wired headphone for latency and quality reasons.. Apple obviously ain’t releasing wired headphones

I'd guess there will be a wired mode as with many other high end bluetooth headphones.

But they still won't be dethroning any of the standard cans used in studios due to cost along with the other useless-in-a-studio-setting technology that are going to be inside.

 

[paradox00]

Man that 1 billion for Beats CAN’T have been worth it. Remains the weirdest thing Tim Cook’s Apple have done.

It paid for itself in product sales alone. Beats annual revenue was $1.5 billion in 2013, and it was very profitable with that (but I'm having trouble finding the exact figure now). It also helped Apple music get off the ground, and Apple's own headphone products got much better after the acquisition...

 

[ericwn]

Actually, there has been a rumor of a “AirPods X” sporty in ear headphones for around $200. They were originally scheduled for this fall, but has since been pushed back to 2021.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247498140468547585

Yeah whenever something doesn’t work with the fake leaks, it must have been pushed back by Apple.
Or it was just hot air - and Prosser saw the prototype of course, and they’ll make a SJ memorial version too.