It's impossible to ignore why are so many companies copying Air Pods. So, about four years ago in 2016 Apple got on stage and announced the iPhone 7 to the world which was the first iPhone ever with courageously no headphone jack.
During that same Presentation on the same stage 27 minutes later they unveiled their newest creation air pods a pair of completely wireless headphones. one earbud in each ear in this convenient magnetic case, that pairs instantly with the iPhone and solves everyone's headphone jack problem. See on stage they explained that if they want to get to their vision of this totally Wireless future, where we don't need cables or cords anymore, they have to get rid of the headphone jack.
Eventually all the other rest of the ports like the Lightning port - in theory So, this was the first brave courageous step towards that future. But it really comes down to one-word “Courage”. The courage to move on do something new that betters all of us, but what they had also actually just conveniently rediscovered was that selling people the solution to a problem.
That you just created a half an hour earlier was a brilliant way to make a ton of money.
On Top of already making a ton of money like, it's no secret that Apple makes most of its profit from the iPhone and then things connected to the iPhone.
we've talked about the ecosystem before they're smart, they've made services like iCloud Drive, Apple pay Apple cares about all these things that capitalize on the massive customer base.
That is the iPhone to make significantly more money from, it's smart business. So, this isn't a new concept for Apple. We're just now adding dongles and wireless headphones to that list. But of course, it doesn't all work unless it's at least a pretty good product. it was people who love air pods they were definitely not the first "wireless earbuds" ever but the combination of the convenience and the little case. They came in and put them right next to the iPhone.
How well they worked with its instant pairing that whole thing made them an instant hit. and of course, They're the number one selling headphones in the world a year later. and so now today it's estimated that with air pods, now air pods Pro the world charger. With the tens of millions of sales, Apple has made around eight billion dollars from Air pods. “8 billion dollars” might not sound like a huge percentage of Apple's business because it's not.
but just for some perspective if you broke that off into a separate company and incorporated a new headphone company air pods Inc separate from Apple.
That company's revenues by itself would be enough to be a fortune 500 company. Probably somewhere in the middle of the pack more than the bottom two or three hundred of those. and They're expected to jump up again in 2020. as iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 owners continue to upgrade.
The headphone jack continues to disappear. So, now as air pod sales are taking off and going to orbit. A lot of the companies that were ridiculing Apple for getting rid of the headphone jack along with you and me.
well, they took a look at this again and saw that they kind of wanted a piece of that pie. like this would be a silly business decision not to get involved in this huge new market. that's basically being created in front of their eyes.
So, they did the same thing Google well they made a commercial calling out the headphone jack a year after Apple got rid of theirs. then literally the next pixel that came out had no headphone jack.
and hey what do you know Google pixel buds now exist.
One plus has been known to take their occasional jabs at Apple, they made their remarks but two years after Apple.
Their new One Plus 6T had no headphone jack and their new wireless Bullets headphones appeared as a convenient solution.
Huawei flagships don't have headphone jacks anymore, either but they'll gladly sell you their new Huawei free buds to set you free of wires.
Razors phones also don't have headphone jacks but you'll see their new hammerheads wireless earbuds You feel like You Have seen that shape before :)
Amazon will sell you Echo Buds, Microsoft has announced their surface buds, even the essential phone from a company, that popped up on the map for one year and made one phone with no headphone jack also happened to make a 150$ attachable HD headphone jack adapter.
That is still listed on their site, to this day it actually has nothing to do with air pod clones that's just funny.
And Samsung has been one of the last major holdouts with a headphone jack in the Galaxy S, but sure enough, they got rid of that headphone jack on the Galaxy Note 10 and the S 20. I'm afraid to say it but,
that's next and they've been pushing galaxy buds that conveniently charge right on the back of the phone that you obviously got them for and all these are various different prices and have slightly different form factors and feature sets to differentiate them.
They all basically do the same thing which is solve a problem that was just created. The headphone jack is quickly disappearing. it's becoming like an enthusiast feature, you see headlines about when a new headphone jack is included in a phone.
because it's sort of a noteworthy thing to see that again. and of course, you now see pretty much every major headphone company in the world scrambling to make their best wireless earbuds to also compete here. so, Audio Technica makes a pair, Sony makes a pair, We just got back from CES where We saw TCL is making a pair,
This is it's got the connection button on the back and flips open like that and there are magnets that hold the earbuds, in like this is there air Pods competitor. Even those companies that don't have a smartphone to connect it to are just trying to sell you something, that you'd reasonably consider buying over air pods for some reason. because this is a PI, They got to get it on and then on top of all that there's the whole world of Apple air pods clones.
and if you're thinking no wait a minute these aren't clones, they're all you know they have their differentiating features, they're slightly different no I'm talking about the ones that literally try to make themselves look exactly like air pods. in an effort to basically convince you that you're getting the same thing for less money. These are the ones that are not so well-intentioned.
You might have seen black ear pods floating around or some variant of them or if you just google ear pods clone. there's a whole world of TWS i500s being sold or drop ships from various online retailers. and there are even companies out there right now. in some way is now making small pocketable completely wireless earbuds that seal up in a case and connect to your phone. So, this has some pros and cons.
we all know the downsides, which are if you want to listen to music through wired headphones you to carry a dongle everywhere. and often the quality is substantially worse over Bluetooth audio than wired. but also, wireless audio is just not great yet it's getting there. if you've ever tried to edit a video or music with wireless headphones you know how bad the latency and the lag can get.
You know we're talking about it's just not quite there yet but because of all that the upside is the same thing that created the downside. which is that now everyone is trying to make the best possible wireless audio solution.
The best possible wireless headphones to try to beat Air Pods and we see this in the forms of all different types of features. The reverse wireless charging on phones, The Razer hammerheads focusing on and minimizing latency, Sony's WF 1000 XM 3 doing active noise cancellation better than any other earbud, I've ever heard and they pretty much all feature, an assistant now - there are Syrian air pods which mean there's Google assistant in pixel buds and many others Bixby and galaxy buds and Cortana in surface buds, in theory anyway.
when those come out it means everyone's working towards a better world of wireless.
So, that maybe this wireless future we've dreamed of isn't so far off after all. now I have no excuse for they're like shameless blatant EarPods rip-offs like these are just clearly trying to make a buck. shamelessly trying to take advantage of people looking for a deal. but the truth really is air pods are Apple's most impactful and successful product since, the original iPhone and who wouldn't want to copy that?
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