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Apple Reportedly Targeting WWDC for Over-Ear Headphones Launch, New 'AirPods X' Later in the Year
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How do you connect to another device? Do you still have to go into settings/bluetooth and press connect?
At $350, it would be product suicide if it didn’t.
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Not necessarily. Sales may be a little suppressed, but I think there will still be significant interest. Based on rumors, Sony’s replacement for the WH-1000XM3 (WH-1000XM4) will look nearly identical with improved battery life and maybe a couple of other minor improvements so Apple may have something that is tempting enough to lure people away who are interested in the Sony cans. Sony has a great headphone, but the Apple logo on cans that perform as well if not better may be the icing on the cake for some.
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wireless headphone to the current Apple ecosystem is like iPod socks and case and remote and belt buckle to the iPod ecosystem
At this point with the pending releases of both Apple’s over the ear headphones and Sony’s successor to the WH-1000XM3, it makes the most sense to wait. At the very least, you’ll get a discounted WH-1000XM3 if you don’t think the new models are worth it, but I have a feeling they will be worth the money.
Undoubtedly, Tim Cook is better than Steve Jobs for making insanely mediocre products.
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Do they have the ”courage” to use a higher quality bluetooth audio codec yet?
Apple could be developing iPod Pro with beamforming to transfer audio over thousands of devices.
$350.00, yeah I'm out. As much as I need a new pair of headphones I can't justify tossing that kind of coin out there. I'll just watch some reviews for around a $100.00 pair and call it good. Not like I'm doing any super high quality audio editing that requires the top of the line stuff. Love Apple products but that product clearly isn't aimed toward me.
Tim Cook might overprice the headphone that used to cost 1/2 less than the original model.
Given the track record of the currently severely crippled ANC on the AirPods Pro and the excellence of the ANC on the Sony WF-1000 and WH-1000 series units, I'm not holding my breath for the Apple product to "perform as well if not better". There is absolutely zero evidence that Apple's product can or will match or exceed what Sony has refined over the past five years.
This is pure speculation on my part. But Apple paid a boatload of money for Beats when they bought it. Maybe they want to sell the brand to recoup some of the money they spent.
This is a rumors site and as such any one rumor is just as valid as the next, until true or false and as such your comment was disingenuous.
Apple spent the money to acquire the music streaming service and Iovine's industry contacts. The headphone dept was purely extra (not that Apple was complaining, given its profitability). But I never saw the Beats branding as fitting in with Apple's image and always felt that they would eventually drop the former in favour of having purely Apple-branded products.
I'm excited about Apple noise cancelling headphones, but getting rid of Beats would be a mistake. The brand cache is huge.
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Don't they sell the most headphones of any brand in the US? If so, they bought a lot more than a streaming service.
The HomePod was pretty stellar when it came out so I think there’s a good chance Apple won’t release these cans until it compares favorably with the best Sony and Bose have to offer.