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Apple's Upcoming Over-Ear Wireless Headphones to Target High-End Noise-Canceling Market
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I am definitely in the "High-End Noise cancelling Market" in the moment - bring it on Apple
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It is said that the latest Sony noise cancelling headphones are rivalling or are even better than Bose - i haven't test both but read about the Sony headphones a few times now.
Because of course Apple made the very first MP3 player, smartphone, tablet, and smartwatch... that people didn’t whine and complain about in their first iterations.
What better to pair with a $1200 iPhone X than a $600 pair of headphones! They should fly off the shelf (just like the X).
A $1200 phone I don't understand and will never pay for. But a $600 pair of headphones (even though its still a lot of money) I kinda do. A good quality pair will not only sound better and bring you more joy if you love music, but should also last much, much longer than a phone which is outdated in a few years.
The editorial maxes Sennheisers at $500. Ttry these. https://en-uk.sennheiser.com/sennheiser-he-1
p.s. $60K
p.s. $60K
You realize different people work on these different things, right? Lets put the audio experts on iOS, that'll fix things. DERRRP.
Apple is the same as it has always been. It takes an emerging product category with a frustrating user experience and deliver a polished product made possible by its control over both the hardware and software.
I for one don't mind Apple working on "boring" stuff if it means they can put their own unique spin on things. I certainly don't regret getting the AirPods and Apple Watch.
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Apple was practically giving them away with the purchase of any iPad or Mac during their back to school promotion. Whatever brand value Beats may have had is long gone in my eyes.
Yes Apple. Just drop everything else. Please? Have everyone work on core products. Prefereply just Macs. And just forget about the rest.
You may not know that Apple, with more than 60,000 non-retail employees, is organized into different groups. And that the group the focuses on audio/music-related products is different than groups that focus on iOS/macOS and Macintosh hardware.
That' not a very fair assessment, IMO. Yes, it's true that audio people are not going to be designing the next gen AMOLED display, but that's really not the point. Apple has numerous times pulled teams off of one project to work on another, but even more, Apple is well known to simply not putting enough focus INTO a project to actually bring it to its full potential, such as when they kept Apple TV as a "hobby" for years. Just because they have people working on it doesn't mean that they have the BEST people working on it, or that the company is actually focusing on bringing a cutting edge, top quality, market-changing product to the customer.
Wouldn't it be ironic if they were wired headphones.
I agree with your assessment that Apple has been sloppy in implementation. Remember there's no Steve Jobs to stop garbage from coming out anymore. High Sierra was supposed to fix the bugs in Sierra similar to how Snow Leopard fixed Leopard. Perhaps they need an even higher Sierra, like "Summit Sierra" to fix the bugs in High Sierra.
You might want to schedule a visit to the Genius Bar. I have made and sent photographs everyday since owning my X in December, and have yet to have any problems.
Go into a Best Buy 4-5 years ago and the entire headphone section was Beats. Now Beats occupy one tiny corner amongst many other brands. I still argue Beats was a stupid acquisition even if it was pocket change for Apple. They didn’t need Jimmy Iovine to start up a music streaming service. There’s little evidence any success Apple Music has is because of Jimmy Iovine. And the fact Apple is developing its own non-Beats branded headphones and speakers just says Apple believes a sizeable chunk of its customers won’t buy anything Beats. The success of AirPods shows Apple didn’t need Beats to get into the audio accessories game. Seems to me there was no strategic reason to acquire Beats and Eddy Cue got snookered by Jimmy Iovine.
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Right because no garbage every happened on Steve Jobs watch.Wouldn't it be ironic if they were wired headphones.
I agree with your assessment that Apple has been sloppy in implementation. Remember there's no Steve Jobs to stop garbage from coming out anymore. High Sierra was supposed to fix the bugs in Sierra similar to how Snow Leopard fixed Leopard. Perhaps they need an even higher Sierra, like "Summit Sierra" to fix the bugs in High Sierra.
This line doesn’t make any sense. HomePod is cheaper than Google Max and the other premium Sonos speaker, those are its comparable, not the lower ends.
But it would make more sense to look at how AirPlay is priced since they’re, you know, headphones.
The money is that the value of Beats was getting the personnel involved more than anything else. They don't seem to be positioning Beats as a premium product, otherwise they would have just gotten rid of the brand and gone ahead with Apple. Beats are "cool" in a different way than Apple and they seem interested mostly in harnessing that.
I imagine, for many, a $400 pair of headphones makes more sense than a $400 speaker. I look forward to seeing what they'd do design wise, to differentiate it from Beats.
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Oh, and Airplay headphones? That's an interesting prospect, and I imagine they'll do it (or I hope that they will).
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Oh, and Airplay headphones? That's an interesting prospect, and I imagine they'll do it (or I hope that they will).
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Well said. Not to mention Beats aren't known for enjoyment of high-fidelity audio. Got a pair of Beats as a promotion last August when I bought an iPad. I had to mark the new set down to 35% of what Apple charged in stores to get them sold in Seattle. Happy for those who need Apple headphones, but I wish they'd focus on what made them successful.
Well said, very succinct. That's true with every single product Apple has developed.
You really think WiFi base stations are (or could be) one of Apple's "core products" and not music playback?