Perhaps these are fake in the sense that they’re made of plastic rather than the rumoured metal design. Maybe someone got hold of the CAD files and mocked them up in the current plastic finish.
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New Images of Rumored AirPods Pro Charging Case [Updated]
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A "mockup" with injection molded plastic, micro printing, die cut poly film, and fitted foam? The mold alone costs $5-10k.
And no, this quality isn't possible with a 3D printer.
Jeez, hostile much? Perhaps mockup was the wrong choice of words. It’s early here! Perhaps they are indeed knock offs by the same manufacturers who produce the current visually identical AirPod clones. Maybe they were hedging their bets on the same plastic finish rather than metal
Can’t wait for dozens of articles without more than a passing comment on the microphone quality and zero *objective* ( you know with like graphs of frequency response and stuff lol ) testing of the microphones.
Then of course six months later after a few hundred million pairs are sold we all realize the microphones are garbage, as per Apple usual, and useless for professional phone calls.
Then of course six months later after a few hundred million pairs are sold we all realize the microphones are garbage, as per Apple usual, and useless for professional phone calls.
When did Apple release via press release a redesigned and upgraded product without at least announcing it at a previous event?
AirPods “Pro”: won’t happen this year!
You are right but then we are also expecting the 16” Macbook which will be their flagship MacBook plus iOS13.2 which is a significant upgrade so I can’t help thinking that we will see some hardware releases next week - 29/30th Oct. If not then yeah you are right, it will be next year for new hardware
This is looking likes Apple expected upgrade cycle for AirPod users. Buy a new model or shell out for “battery replacement”. If so these should be cheaper as a two year life cycle is a tough swallow if only for the environmental impact.
How would these even fit in someone’s ear, the design is strange and no more hardware till next year
...I don’t like they use „pro“ so I inflationary these days. Doesn’t even really make sense on the iPhone.
Cook: Welcome to our special event, thanks for coming. Today we’re really excited to announce our new MacBook Pro, we think you’re going to love it. The display is now 16.5”, up from 15.6”.
Audience:
Cook: We’ve also added an incredibly innovative new feature, active noise cancellation, to the AirPods.
Audience:
Cook: It’s a whole new design!
Audience:
Cook: Ummm, well....thank you for that big round of applause, and thanks for coming to our keynote!
We do know. Mac Pro is still promised for this fall.
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Not sure I agree with that. I knew when I bought them that such diminutive batteries would probably have a limited lifespan. They get used a lot and charged a lot. Unfortunately this is the limitation of Li-Ion batteries. I can hardly blame Apple for that. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, though.
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Space Grey, pretty please 🤩
Tim Cook: "Fire the guy who had that specific color blue applied to his sample.