What’s bigger than the Apple Watch? Apple AirPods, Sales projections suggest.
This week, Apple’s brand new high-tech wireless earbuds, finally reached consumers, and took the audio accessories industry by storm. This is not an overstatement: Apple AirPods have surprised many initial detractors, by demolishing concerns that owners of Apple AirPods would lose them while wearing them, with particular focus on physical activity like exercising, and walking outside.
Those initial fears were hard to overcome, as Apple AirPods price tag is definitely not geared towards budget consumers. Apple AirPods are engineered to function wirelessly, and to fit in the wearer’s ear tightly enough to prevent them from being accidentally dislodged and lost.
Siri integration is also an important part of Apple AirPods, as it allows them to be controlled using voice commands.
Much like Apple Watch, Apple has created a proprietary and specialized System-on-a-Chip to control and program Apple AirPods, the W1, which is engineered specifically for wireless IoT devices that do not have a screen.
With that said, unlike Apple Watch, Apple AirPods may have an actual shot at a staggering success with consumers, in light of the fact that Apple AirPods can be used across multiple devices, including Macs. In fact, Apple AirPods is expected to fare better than Apple Pencil as well, because of its ubiquity.
The versatility of Apple AirPods, allows the accessory to pair instantly with any device that is registered with iCloud. This represents a huge convenience for consumers, making AirPods the most user-friendly product made by Apple, so far.
A user-friendly product is an easy sell, and Apple has built its entire business model around that concept, since the very beginning. This is why Apple AirPods, a product that requires zero configuration, and all it needs is to be added to a list of devices in iCloud for it to pair automatically, not to mention switching from one device to the next, is so disarmingly simple, it’s nearly impossible to think of something better, at least for the time being.
When taken into account the sound quality, and the Bluetooth signal strength, Apple AirPods is unmatched by the best wireless accessories available currently.
Apple Watch, unfortunately, has found a bit more resistance than initially expected, as consumers struggled to grasp the concept of a smartwatch, along with the cost, ranging from $399, to several thousands.
It’s not impossible, however, that as time goes by, consumers will eventually warm up to the concept of a smartwatch, but in the meantime, high-fidelity wireless earbuds are going to be all the rage for quite a while.
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Apple AirPods are the most innovative audio accessory for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Wirelessly stream all your music, voice calls, and multimedia content through AirPod’s powerful, crystal-clear dual speakers, and let your voice be heard, through dual, beamforming microphones..