<story><title>AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue</title><url>https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1214867813464236032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>In San Francisco (so at the center of the bubble) I&amp;#x27;ve been shocked by the adoption of the AirPods pro.  I see them everywhere now and they&amp;#x27;ve only been out for two months or so.  Add the regular AirPods in and they&amp;#x27;re downright ubiquitous.&lt;p&gt;These are $250 headphones.  I&amp;#x27;ve loved music all my life and I used to get weird looks from people when I told them I was spending $150-200 on nice earbuds with better sound quality.  For about a decade everyone was pretty happy with the white iPod headphones that came in the box.&lt;p&gt;Thinking back I guess Beats opened the floodgates of &amp;quot;normal people having expensive headphones&amp;quot; and also &amp;quot;headphones as fashion&amp;quot; and then AirPods came in and added a whole convenience layer on top which seems to be driving people to buy in droves.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, Apple&amp;#x27;s raking it in.  Guess I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>The noise cancelling changes &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It just makes dealing with incessant city noise so much more manageable.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t even have to be listening to music.&lt;p&gt;But if you are listening to music, you hear it so much more clearly and can use a lower volume.&lt;p&gt;From a quality of life perspective, if you commute by foot&amp;#x2F;subway&amp;#x2F;bus, they&amp;#x27;re so so worth it.&lt;p&gt;(Yes there were noise-cancelling headphones before, but always bulky or with wires. With AirPods, they&amp;#x27;re just effortless to bring+wear.)</text></comment>
<story><title>AirPods revenue does not exceed Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify revenue</title><url>https://twitter.com/neilcybart/status/1214867813464236032</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>habosa</author><text>In San Francisco (so at the center of the bubble) I&amp;#x27;ve been shocked by the adoption of the AirPods pro.  I see them everywhere now and they&amp;#x27;ve only been out for two months or so.  Add the regular AirPods in and they&amp;#x27;re downright ubiquitous.&lt;p&gt;These are $250 headphones.  I&amp;#x27;ve loved music all my life and I used to get weird looks from people when I told them I was spending $150-200 on nice earbuds with better sound quality.  For about a decade everyone was pretty happy with the white iPod headphones that came in the box.&lt;p&gt;Thinking back I guess Beats opened the floodgates of &amp;quot;normal people having expensive headphones&amp;quot; and also &amp;quot;headphones as fashion&amp;quot; and then AirPods came in and added a whole convenience layer on top which seems to be driving people to buy in droves.&lt;p&gt;So yeah, Apple&amp;#x27;s raking it in.  Guess I shouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmode</author><text>I am not someone who spend a lot of money on audio hardware, but plunked $150 for AirPods. The product is just so good, and there is no way I can go back to a wired headset now. In fact I hate talking on my phone without AirPods in general now</text></comment>