• johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Vanilla pods didn’t sell well cos ANC is pretty much a standard these days. The money you’d spend on them you might as well reach for the pros. Apple have been flooding the market with endless variety for a while now. Definitely not the simple and clean product line like back in the day.

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      1 year ago

      But the article said that the vanilla Gen 3s aren’t selling because people are still buying new 2s.

      There is a market for vanilla headphones. It’s the middle tier that’s doesn’t make sense.

      The 2s can often be purchased for $100, and the 3s are often more expansive that the Gen 1 Pros when they’re on sale.

      All in all, AirPod 3s are a weird in-between product that doesn’t make sense.

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        1 year ago

        Which makes me worry that they would rather scrap the 2 at that price range and make 3 the base cheaper (but more expensive) price.

        3 definitely feels like a bit of an after thought product. I’m just glad they’re not touching the pros for a while. Literally just bought the usbc one on a sale this week