Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Powerbeats3 Wireless Earphones Now Available From Apple With Early November Delivery
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Guess I'll have to wait till the studio wireless comes out with W1 Chip, don't like in/on ear headsets/headphones!
I doubt it. That name is the name in mass market consumer headphones. The negatives to dropping the name would far outweigh the positives imo. In fact, I can't think of a single positive to dropping the name.
Honestly, I would buy the current set. I did a review earlier. They are like $120 off at Best Buy.
[doublepost=1477404295][/doublepost]
They absolutely would not do this. Apple does not have any name recognition when it comes to premium audio.
For any DIY-ers out there. Radians makes a custom molded silicon earplug set for ~$10 I use for shooting. It has a nice side-use of mashing ear buds within the mixture before it sets. The end product is a custom molded noise isolating earbud that stays in your ear without any extra ear loops or horrible inserts.
Highly recommend. Can even run and sweat with them in.
Highly recommend. Can even run and sweat with them in.
They're in-ear, but with an ear clip / loop to make sure they stay on your ears.
I tried other ones that were JUST in-ear, but they wouldn't stay on my ears when I sweated, so this was one of the only options that worked for me.
Yes, the sound quality is not as good, but the fact that they stay on my ears is worth much more to me.
Well, they have less wire.they should call them bluetooth headphones, not wireless, as i see a wire in the picture connecting them
Give me my BeatsX! Now!
Who knew that W1 chip would be harder to produce than the Intel Kaby Lake processor?
There's an ad on Facebook that shows the other colors
They're the same as on the Powerbeats3
Maybe the Beats website will show you the colors without going through Facebook, I know Apple's doesn't
You want to be seen with them in public? Amazing.
[doublepost=1477406853][/doublepost]
Neither does Beats.
Now I just need Best Buy to show availability so I can use my gift cards!
[doublepost=1477407603][/doublepost]
Where are you seeing $260? They are $199 in the US from the Apple Store.
[doublepost=1477407603][/doublepost]
Where are you seeing $260? They are $199 in the US from the Apple Store.
I was going to get either PowerBeats3 or BeatsX, but when Best Buy had the PowerBeats2 on sale for $99 and I had rewards certificates in waiting, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get two sets of PowerBeats2 - one pair for me and one pair for my wife - for just over the cost of one pair of BeatsX, or just about the price of one pair of AirPods.
They look fine to me end of the day it's not different to normal earbuds without the cable.
End of the day you buy products for your needs not what people think. If anything people will be envy the fact you have some
I expect that Apple will continue to encroach however. Now with the AirPods and then through the chips they are placing in the beats headphones to work with Apple products. Maybe they move to naming the in the ear to Apple pods and the on/over the ear as beats. But somehow the word beats does not seem to fit so comfortably in the Apple vernacular. What I mean is that they tend to be litteralist -- i.e. iPhone, iPad, macBook, Apple Watch, Apple TV, EarPods, iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, Apple Music, iBooks. Even when it's not so literal, the have something tangible - i.e. Apple, Macintosh, iTunes, Pages, Numbers. Beats is neither literal nor tangible.
I have no issue with the brand having a significant and positive recognition and I agree that it would therefore be difficult and dumb to switch the name overnight. But I still see it as a one off name and I would not be surprised if there is a slow encroachment (especially because Apple seems to be going very slow these days).