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canukstorm said:

jaswanthtutorials said:

Apple AirPods Max is Expensive. Its costs around 60k in India 

I've never seen so much controversy around the price of an Apple product since the $349 HomePod.  Many other brands have been making $500+ headphones for a lot longer than Apple and I don't recall anyone taking issue with that.  And some of those models from competing brands are less feature-rich than the APM.  But for some reason all hell breaks loose when Apple makes a $549 pair of headphones.

The criticism is valid, but not in the form that it took…

Apple has taken/created a very weird "niche" market with their products; the products are both luxuriously priced, and mainstream targeting average people. It's pretty much a market that shouldn't be able to exist; and without context makes as much sense as doing a startup selling luxury jewellery specifically to people that can't afford food.

Apple should have been outcompeted ages ago.

The outcry about OE headphones priced like these is simply because the target market would have to be absolutely crazy to waste this much money on headphones; it's a price range that they've never ever have even considered before. It makes as much sense as going straight from a cheap rust bucket to a Ferrari for grocery shopping and getting your kids to school.

People should have just seen these headphones, shaken their heads and muttered a few things about "rich people"; and then have moved on with their lives.

But… it's Apple.

It's Apple, and it's a product priced at a range that's been normalised by iPhones; and it's a product that comparatively speaking shows a great deal of status at a fairly low cost, while providing a continuing (new) functionality.

People should have been outraged at Apple for being disrespectful to their target market by creating products that are clearly priced so that the target market actually can't afford them.

Yet, because it's Apple the criticism has taken this weird form of people fundamentally accepting the situation; and are simply upset with the novelty of headphones existing in this price range.

And… since it's Apple… give it a couple of months for the mainstream to have tried these, and Apple have somehow just f*cking managed to normalise that everyone should spend up to a months rent on a pair of OE headphones.

(I can't decide if I should be impressed, or head out into the streets protesting the destructive evils of capitalism.)

randominternetperson said:

lkrupp said:

shamino said:

Looks nice, but I want to see some tests about how well it will shield the magnetic stripes on your cards from the magnets in the MagSafe connector.  And from the charging field, for that matter.

And you assume this never crossed Apple engineer’s minds when they were developing this product? Really? They didn’t care if their case erased your credit card? Really? 

Why jump down his (?) throat?  It's a valid concern.  Obviously Apple designed with this in mind, but what's wrong with waiting for independent confirmation?  Has Apple never done anything wrong with a version 1 product?  (as if)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

I thought that the https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRX22ZM/A/iphone-xs-max-leather-folio-black solved this "problem" quite well; and I'm at least partially not instantly getting the pro max simply because I haven't found a case that will replace that folio perfectly.

(Having gone mostly vegan also complicates things, it's surprisingly common that companies use (bad quality) leather even when a faux material would make more sense; just because the company want to call their product luxurious.)

mtashiro said:

I take a different view on this...  I see this products use case as something you use on travel.  11W charging is plenty when all you would do is put it on the charger at night and it would be charged in the morning.  And if yo want the higher rate buy a 3rd party power adapter like the 60W Anker power port atom III for $30/list.  It a convenience product.  If you don't like the price or the charring power get the regular MagSafe charger.

It's not marketed as a travel accessory, though; and personally, when I travel is when I most often find myself in need of a very quick top up of a device.

I’m not one to often invoke the holiness Steve Jobs himself, but… He absolutely would have blown a fuse if he’d seen this confusing mess Apple has created, in about a month, with different chargers and standards (all of it invisible to the average user).