In my experiences, they absolutely do signal that, so our anecdata cancel out. Maybe this article will provide a starting point to shed light on the fact that

In my experiences, they absolutely do signal that, so our anecdata cancel out. Maybe this article will provide a starting point to shed light on the fact that AirPods have certainly become status symbols: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-most-important-product-after-iphone-q3-earnings-2019-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-airpods-most-important... I don't really know how else to illustrate that fact. Maybe there are peer-reviewed sociological or ethnographic studies out there that will specifically state this fact, but I haven't found any. But the world exists outside of the contents of peer-reviewed science.