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Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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Wish there was a way for public investors to invest in certain parts of a publicly traded company. If I believe in a certain project at Apple or Google, I want to fund it and get returns on my investment.

Isn't that cart before the horse? The concept of investing is taking a risk. If you want to invest in only successful products after they're developed, there's no wealth delta to be a part of.

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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Are airpods really worth it or is it just marketing

I have really enjoyed using my pairs (had a 1st gen, bought the 2nd gen later on for the much quicker connections). They work absolutely amazingly with my iPhone, iPad, Macbook Pro. The switchover is mostly glitch free, and I can pair them to "standard bluetooth devices" pretty easily (like my complex's gym equipment). I think the investment has been pretty great, but you have to own products that make sense with them (at least an iPhone, iPad, or Macbook).

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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Apple Ecosystem, Apple's way - create a problem and a solution at the same. I wonder what's the ratio among the owners, who bought vs. who received them as a gift.

> create a problem and a solution at the same

"Wires are annoying" and "other Bluetooth headphones suck" were not problems created by Apple.

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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post #8

Wish there was a way for public investors to invest in certain parts of a publicly traded company. If I believe in a certain project at Apple or Google, I want to fund it and get returns on my investment.

The government should work like that with taxes. Instead of just giving 100% to whatever the government decides it wants to fund, 20% could be reserved to go to what people want it to go to. Have some participation in the tax paying.

More interesting and better for the world if we apply that to governments rather than companies :)

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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Impressive figures no doubt, but in my opinion flawed to consider Airpods as a standalone business and compare to other businesses. It's so successful specifically because Apple built bespoke chips, software, and integration across their ecosystem for the Airpods. This is something a brand new company building just the Airpods product would never be able to accomplish.

And even if they accomplished it, they wouldn't come even remotely close to being as financially successful with the same product.

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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That's because they're overpriced heavily marketed Bluetooth earbuds pushed by the biggest brand. I bet almost any of apples products could be similarly compared.

Are they over priced? They're cheaper than Sennheiser or Bose at $159. They have a value-prop of having their own, better, wireless protocol that works flawlessly with iOS. And people seem to like the form factor.

Re: Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?

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That's because they're overpriced heavily marketed Bluetooth earbuds pushed by the biggest brand. I bet almost any of apples products could be similarly compared.

They also seem to have better performance specs and software quality than anything else on the market. In addition to a design that people actually like.
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