Airpods catching on and selling well?

[pRICE cUBE]

https://www.cultofmac.com/606196/airpods...-all-time/

AirPods are Apple’s second-best-selling new product of all time, a new report by Above Avalon analyst Neil Cybart suggests.

Cybart estimates that Apple is on track to sell 40 million pairs of AirPods in 2019. That represents almost 90 percent year-over-year growth. While impressive, this is nothing compared to the interest expressed through Google searches — which leaped up 500 percent last holiday season.

The detailed report, which is well worth a read, notes:

“There are already at least 25 million people wearing AirPods. This total will likely exceed 50 million people later this year. These are massive sales and adoption figures for a two-year old product that has never received an update and rarely goes on sale for less than its $159 selling price.”
The most popular Apple product out of the gate was the iPad. While the iPhone went on to become Apple’s most important tech product, the iPad actually saw a bigger surge of early sales.

On a cumulative basis, Cybart writes that AirPods are currently outpacing Apple Watch sales by 40 percent at the same point after launch.

[NewtonMP2100]

....because there is nothing else really to buy......everything else is too expensive....or too old.....

[3d]

But but but.... they look goofy, and they stick out, and they fall out, and they don't fit well, the name sounds weird, it looks goofy, too expensive, people will make fun of me, wah wah wah. Same whiny online nit wits who were moaning about the iPad product name sounding embarrassing.

When the Airpods2 come out I'll be the first in line to purchase.

[jdc]

They were the must have xmas gift -- sold out everywhere at least a week before.

My oldest has a pair her grandma got her for her birthday, she loves them. No problem with fit or falling out. I like the shape or apples pods as well. Fit snug, can still hear, and not like Ive got a finger jammed in my ear like other buds.

Walk around any high school or college and I bet u see plenty.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

There are already at least 25 million people wearing AirPods...

It doesn't directly say that the 40 million Airpods sold, 10 million are for people buying replacements after losing one or both. :wink:

[RAMd®d]

I remember I had the only AirPods in town, and I wasn't that early of an adopter.

I did order them looooonnng before they finally shipped though.

Now I see them everywhere, along with Apple Watches, which were once few and far between.

There are still double takes when I pay with my Watch, though.

[ka jowct]

I see a lot of them these days, pretty much anywhere I go in NYC. Quite a jump since they were introduced. I still find them rather goofy looking, but I’m getting used to them. No plans to get them, though.

[TLB]

A lot of kids at my daughter's college seem quite happy with the $15-30 clones out there. Since nothing seems to fit my ear canal correctly I haven't tried the real or the fakes, old school headphones for now.

[Acer]

Do they fit like Apple's wired ear buds? I've always like the fit of those, the old ones and the newer ones, that sit sort of in the ear without plugging the canal.

[Lux Interior]

I love mine.

I have been wireless for a long time, but my gym routine (i.e. my profuse sweating) took it's toll on BT headphones. I was buying the cheapos by the dozen because they wouldn't last more than a few months, but I was addicted to the lack of wires.

Got my Airpods in May 2017 and they are still going (mostly) strong. The right one seems to be depleting its battery faster, and I think they may be coming to the end of their life.

They do need to be cleaned occasionally. I use cotton swabs with H2O2 and rubbing alcohol about once a month to clean the screens protecting the speaker hole.