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I'm pretty disgruntled about losing the 3.5mm jack, but I don't buy this idea that Apple did it to sell wireless Beats, for one reason: the product lineup sucks
by BurritoAlPastor 8y ago
I'm pretty disgruntled about losing the 3.5mm jack, but I don't buy this idea that Apple did it to sell wireless Beats, for one reason: the product lineup sucks.
Apple knows how to make truly great audio hardware; the AirPods really are extraordinary. But the Beats lineup clearly hasn't received any serious attention, as evidenced by two things:
1) they still sell wireless hardware that doesn't have the W1 chip, two years after it was first released
2) for God's sake, all their devices charge over micro-USB!
- robin_reala 8y agoRe 2), the Beats X charge over Lightning.
- user5994461 8y ago>>> but I don't buy this idea that Apple did it to sell wireless Beats, for one reason: the product lineup sucks. Counter argument. The product lineup sucks so they had to help the sales in any way possible.
- theonemind 8y agoWell, the article shows that Beats still has a plurality in the bluetooth market in sales dollars and units sold. Beats quality aside, I think that still makes a highly plausible (partial) motivation to push people toward bluetooth.