It’s really difficult to take your opinion seriously, especially when you’re referring to the AirPods as you do. Let me tell you, I’m in the gym five days a week, I live in a fairly large city, and I see the AirPods _all_ the time in public, and they don’t look anything like you’re describing them as, and I think generally, consumers don’t care what some Else chooses to wear for earbuds.
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Apple to Release AirPods With New Coating and Black Color in the Spring
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It’s really difficult to take your opinion seriously, especially when you’re referring to the AirPods as you do. Let me tell you, I’m in the gym five days a week, I live in a fairly large city, and I see the AirPods _all_ the time in public, and they don’t look anything like you’re describing them as, and I think generally, consumers don’t care what some Else chooses to wear for earbuds.
If you think so and want blacks for that reason, then that's fine
I think a colour doesn't threaten a person's masculinity/femininity, and their genuinity (or lack of it) will show through whatever colours they choose to wear
I think that was the point. The original white earbuds were iconic-- you knew someone was using an iPod when you saw the white wires. Same thing is happening now with the AirPods-- they get noticed.
I think people are entirely too hung up on the appearance of these things. As @AngerDanger illustrated in the before times, the Airpods basically look exactly like EarPods with the wire removed.
Well, @SoN1NjA said that Apple rarely released black products, not that they never released anything in black.
Right now it comes to my mind the black MacBook you posted, the Mac Pro trashcan, and the iPhone 7. Maybe I miss one or two more devices, but still Apple hugely prefers white color. And after a lot of years choosing the Space Grey color, I'm starting to like silver on MacBook Air, 11" iPad Pro, and even the white iPhone 8 (although mine is black).
Same here. I wish they'd address this. It is like making a one size fits all shoe. It just doesn't work.
Actually, the audio is the last thing that I want to see improved. I think they’re fairly loud and offer decent bass coming from such a small speaker on the AirPods. I’m actually really shocked how how good they do sound, obviously there is competition in the Bluetooth market that sounds better than the AirPods, but for the price of the AirPods, I haven’t read/heard too many complaints about the audio.
Isn't there an /s missing somewhere there in your post?
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There's already a pair of Sennheiser wireless airbuds that sound better than any other pair out there. But... the Bluetooth connection keeps dropping, the touch controls work only intermittently, charging case works awkwardly and so on. Oh, and you can only pair them with one device at a time (of course I'm taking into account the fact, that AirPods only work with multiple devices in Apple's ecosystem). It's not that easy to make a decent pair
Apple has held strong with white headphones as an identifier for a long time. I’ll be surprised if there’s a black option.
I don't care about the color, but if they could make them fit my ears, I would be a definite buy.
It's obvious Apple is releasing these things at the end of March. Too many leaks to not be available by then. They'll announce their services and have plenty of other things to go with them. This is what Apple does.
A bargain vs the competition?? The competition is actually a much better product than the AirPods, at the same price. Don’t know what you’re comparing to...